Job Title: Project Planner
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73202
Plan what matters. Shape projects that protect the nation.
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Planner at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of major, technically complex programmes, supporting a diverse portfolio of projects in a fast‑paced, safety‑critical environment. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your planning expertise where it truly matters — helping to deliver projects that underpin national security, energy resilience and critical infrastructure.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to
- Developing and maintaining integrated project schedules across Levels 1–3, with alignment to Level 4–5 schedules
- Creating and managing robust project structures, including Work Breakdown Structures and resource and cost-loaded plans
- Monitoring and updating schedules, producing performance metrics such as critical path, float and schedule impact analysis
- Integrating planning data with financial and materials systems to support informed decision-making
- Collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, commercial and project teams to support successful delivery
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Project Planner
- Experience developing and maintaining integrated project schedules within complex project environments
- Strong understanding of network planning and schedule analysis techniques
- Experience producing resource- and cost-loaded schedules
- Ability to provide meaningful schedule performance metrics and insights
- Experience working with multiple internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications for the Project Planner
- A degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant discipline
- Knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project or similar planning tools
- Full project lifecycle experience
- Quantitative risk analysis experience is advantageous
- Marine, nuclear or large-scale construction experience is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 14/05/2026
#SCOTLAND-BC-WC