Facility Planner in Plymouth

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Planning that Protects 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 Facility Planner, at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role:

As a Facility Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of the planning activity that underpins complex, high‑value submarine support programmes. Working within a high‑performing planning team, you’ll help shape, maintain and improve the schedules that enable confident decision‑making across major defence engineering projects.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Support the Senior Planner by developing, maintaining and implementing planning schedules for operations and maintenance activities
• Compile and standardise planning and project data to ensure consistency, accuracy and clarity
• Produce high‑level schedule visuals and reports for programme reviews and stakeholder briefings
• Attend project meetings and represent planning activity when required
• Collaborate with colleagues across project controls, engineering and wider support teams to integrate facility schedules and manage change

This is a full‑time, permanent position, working 35 hours per week, based onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Set working times are Monday to Thursday 7:30am-3:30pm and Friday 7:30am-12:30pm.

Essential experience of the Facility Planner:

• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• A logical, organised approach with attention to detail
• Confidence communicating with a range of internal stakeholders
• An interest in planning, scheduling or project environments within engineering or infrastructure

Qualifications for the Facility Planner:

• GCSEs or equivalent academic qualifications
• P6 Fundamentals and Advanced (desirable)
• AMP Planning Foundations Qualification (desirable)
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent (desirable)

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. 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.

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: 28/05/2026