Project Planner in Helensburgh

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £37,000 - £46,000 depending on experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the schedules that keep the Royal Navy mission‑ready. 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 HMNB Clyde Faslane 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 one of the UK’s most critical defence programmes. This is your opportunity to manage integrated scheduling across complex engineering projects, ensuring delivery confidence and operational excellence. You’ll make a real impact by aligning planning outputs with financial and strategic goals, helping to safeguard national security and support the Royal Navy’s fleet readiness.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Develop and maintain Primavera P6 schedules across planning and execution phases, updating baselines as work packages evolve.
• Drive progress reviews, risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring plans reflect reality and decisions are data‑led.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, vessels, shore departments and customer representatives to align scope and milestones.
• Report credible schedule, resource and milestone forecasts to support governance and performance reviews.
• Uphold planning standards and processes, ensuring compliance with departmental guidance and company requirements.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and provides options of agile working with 3 days in the office/onsite and 1 day working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Planner:

• Experience in a similar environment (ideally defence, engineering or infrastructure).
• Full project lifecycle exposure from initiation through to closure.
• Proficiency with project planning and scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera P6 or equivalent).
• Ability to interpret technical inputs and translate them into clear, executable plans.

Qualifications for the Project Planner:

• Ideally, you’ll hold a professional qualification in a related discipline such as Primavera Fundamentals, P6 Advanced, Project Management or Resource Management. However, we also welcome applications from candidates who bring equivalent experience and a strong track record in project delivery.

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. 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 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: 02/03/2026