At a Glance
- Tasks: Create and manage project schedules to ensure timely delivery of innovative solutions.
- Company: Join SEA, a leader in advanced defence and maritime solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, generous leave, and excellent career development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team with a focus on innovation and work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by protecting what matters while growing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project planning and scheduling, preferably in complex environments.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. The Project Planner provides professional planning and scheduling support across SEA portfolios, programmes and projects. This role allows for flexible working. The salary for this role is circa 50k, depending on experience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Establish and maintain detailed and logically linked project schedules, including integrated and master schedules where required.
- Support the development and maintenance of Performance Measurement Baselines at bid stage and through authorised re-baselining during delivery.
- Provide clear schedule analysis, progress reporting and performance insight to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Help delivery teams identify schedule risks, opportunities, assumptions and dependencies, and develop practical recovery or mitigation actions.
About our company:
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer:
- Work life balance
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- Health Cash Plan
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing Centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
The skills you need:
- Demonstrable project planning and scheduling experience on complex programmes or projects.
- Practical experience developing and maintaining logic-linked schedules in Microsoft Project or an equivalent enterprise scheduling tool.
- Experience of progress measurement, forecast maintenance, critical-path analysis and schedule performance reporting.
- Working knowledge of integrated project controls and the relationships between scope, schedule, resource, cost, risk and change.
- Experience supporting baseline development, change control and re-baselining within a controlled project environment.
- An engineering, defence, maritime or other high-assurance delivery background is desirable.
- APM PMQ, APMG Project Planning and Control qualification, or an equivalent project-management or project-controls qualification is desirable - Candidates working towards relevant accreditation will be considered.
- Experience with Earned Value Management, schedule risk analysis, Acumen Fuse, Power BI or equivalent analysis and reporting tools would be advantageous.
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you’d like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on 03330 414300. Or reach out to us on talentacquisition@sea.co.uk.
Project Planner employer: Systems Engineering & Assessment
At SEA, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and flexibility. With generous benefits including hybrid working arrangements, extensive training opportunities, and a strong focus on employee wellbeing, our Barnstaple, Bristol, and Beckington locations provide the perfect environment for PLM Engineers to thrive and contribute to meaningful projects that protect what matters most.
Contact Details:
Systems Engineering & Assessment Recruitment Team
