Job Description
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 Planning Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working on the latest cutting-edge technology for the Royal Navy ensuring the continuous at sea deterrent which ensures the safe guarding of the UK.
Day-to-day, you’ll identify the maintenance data and work required for the future submarine maintenance periods.
- Resolve any planning and scheduling ambiguities within these activities.
- Provide regular liaison with a variety of stakeholders to ensure accuracy and achievement of the required quality.
- Build the indicative planning schedule (key date schedule) for the maintenance work activities
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Planning Engineer:
- Proven experience within a planning or engineering environment
- Ability to problem solve
- Proven experience building/maintaining a schedule
- A willingness to learn and develop within role
- Experience using MS Office or P6
Qualifications for the Planning Engineer:
- An engineering qualification e.g. NC/HNC/HND or demonstrable relevant experience.
- Planning qualification or equivalent experience
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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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 the majority of 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
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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.