Assistant Project Planner

Job Title: Assistant Project Planner
Location: Devonport, Plymouth
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55787

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Project Planner at our Devonport Site.

The role
As an Assistant Project Planner you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be embedded within one of our key programmes or Gunnery project teams and be integral to achieving high-performance delivery to our customers. You will own and undertake project planning & scheduling activities and provide related support to wider project controls activities such as cost, risk, and performance management.

Day to day, you'll create, maintain, and own project delivery schedules, as well as:

• Ensure the project team and related accountable owners have clear visibility of future scheduled activities and milestone to ensure on time delivery of all related work scopes.
• Generate and circulate weekly and monthly schedule performance reports (including EVM), and associated analysis and narrative to inform management of progress, risks, and potential issues with the support of project controllers.
• Provide related scheduling input into project risk reviews.
• Support the undertaking of Schedule Risk Analysis.
• Support on project Earned Value Management reporting.

This role is a hybrid role with 2 days per week onsite at Devonport.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Planner:

• Practitioner of P6 and / or Microsoft Project - Desirable
• Competent on all Microsoft Packages (Word, PowerPoint etc)
• Application of risk management and use of related tools (ARM/Risk Hive etc) - Desirable

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Planner:

• APM Project Planning & Controls Qualification - Desirable

The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
• 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.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 15/04/2024