Project Planning Lead in Bristol

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 Planning Lead at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves being at the forefront of delivery across a diverse range of projects supporting in-service Royal Navy submarines. Day-to-day, you’ll manage a diverse range of projects, ensuring precise oversight of project schedules. Your responsibilities will include accurate time and cost forecasting throughout the project lifecycle.

Key duties encompass:

• Schedule Production and Review: Create schedules for new tasks and review schedules produced by others to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Compliance Assurance: Ensure all planning activities comply with internal governance and contractual obligations.
• Time/Risk Analysis: Take responsibility for conducting time and risk analysis of schedules throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Team and Stakeholder Communication: Maintain high standards within the project team and keep customers and business stakeholders informed.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify, review, and apply lessons learned for continuous improvement in future requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience:

• Knowledge of all aspects of project scheduling and planning.
• Experience in building project schedules for management analysis.
• Leadership, coaching and influencing skills in a matrix organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present technical and business information clearly.
• Highly motivated with strong organisation skills with attention to detail and data accuracy.

Qualifications:

• Associate for Project Management Project Fundamentals Qualification.
• APM Project Planning & Control Practitioner certification or willingness to pursue as part of CPD.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading 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 to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email 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: 25/11/2026