Senior Planner and Scheduler in Bristol

Location: Bristol, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape The Future of Critical Defence Programmes

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 Senior Project Planner at our Ashton House, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-profile defence and marine programmes that support national security and international partnerships. Working within our Mission Systems business, you'll lead the planning and schedule management approach for complex projects, ensuring alignment between project delivery, financial planning, and resource requirements.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing programme at an early stage, where your expertise will directly influence successful outcomes and help shape the future of a strategically important international defence partnership. You'll work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative environment while developing your own leadership capability and career within one of the UK's leading aerospace, defence, and engineering organisations.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Develop and maintain robust integrated project schedules across complex programmes.
• Collaborate with Control Account Managers, project controllers, and senior stakeholders to support delivery objectives.
• Drive schedule performance measurement and provide insight to improve project outcomes.
• Embed governance, assurance, and best practice throughout project planning activities.
• Mentor and support junior planners while championing a culture of delivery excellence.

37 hours per week, based at Ashton House. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner:

• Extensive experience in a planning role within defence, engineering, infrastructure, or other complex project environments.
• Advanced proficiency using Primavera P6 planning software.
• Experience supporting Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis, including Monte Carlo techniques.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain project governance documentation and planning frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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 share scheme
• 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 17/08/2026