Project Planner in Fife

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of naval engineering through world class project planning. 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 be at the heart of major naval and maritime programmes, turning complexity into clarity. Working closely with project teams, engineers and stakeholders, you'll develop, maintain and analyse integrated project schedules that enable confident decisions, strong governance and successful delivery.

Day to day you'll be required to:

• Developing, baselining and maintaining integrated project schedules, ensuring alignment with scope, resources, cost and milestones
• Updating and analysing schedules, including critical path, progress, forecasting and estimates at completion
• Producing resource and cost loaded schedules to support financial reporting, integrated business planning and earned value management
• Supporting and facilitating planning workshops, rolling wave planning activities and alignment with suppliers and partners
• Providing planning insight for risk, scenario and change impact analysis to inform decision making and reporting

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements (3 days on site).

Essential experience of the Project Planner:

• Proven experience in network scheduling and project planning
• Ideally practical knowledge of Primavera P6. Consideration will be given to those with experience in Microsoft Project or similar network planning packages but it is essential to have knowledge and training in Primavera P6.
• Experience working across the full project lifecycle
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly
• A proactive, adaptable approach with the ability to respond to changing priorities

Qualifications for the Project Planner:

• A degree or equivalent professional experience that demonstrates knowledge of project planning principles
• Membership of, or alignment with, a recognised professional or industry body is advantageous

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.

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.
• '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

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: 01/05/2026