Senior Project Planner in Bristol

At Cavendish Nuclear 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 Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol site.

The role

As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering complex projects that shape the future of the nuclear industry, ensuring schedules are robust, aligned, and drive successful outcomes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for applying schedule management independently primarily in complex situations across Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management (P3M).

• Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)
• Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedules.
• Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset
• Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (e.g. critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.

This is a full-time position (37 hours per week) offering a flexible hybrid working arrangement, with three days based in the office and two days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner

• Experience of Project Planning using Primavera P6
• Previous experience of working as a Project Planner within a high regulated industry/environment

Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner

• A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline
• A recognised professional qualification such as APM, Acoste, RICS (or equivalent)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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 is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish 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.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover 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: 12/03/2026