Principal Project Planner - Scheduler

About the job

Job Title: Principal Project Planner - Scheduler
Location: Aston Vale, Bristol + Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52850

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 Principal Project Planner at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Principal Project Planner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Developing, implementing, and leading on the schedule management approach for a complex programme or project.

Day to day you'll have responsibility for:

• Embedding schedule management plans,
• Governance and Assurance, whilst leading on the development/baselining and maintenance of a robust integrated project schedule
• Ensuring alignment between the integrated scheduling toolsets and the companies financial and material demand toolset
• Developing and mentoring junior colleagues

Essential experience of the Principal Project Planner:

• Significant recent and relevant experience in a similar role, environment and/or industry
• Advanced knowledge and experience of using Primavera P6
• Experience of supporting quantitative schedule risk analysis (I.e., Monte Carlo) is desirable
• Experience of creating and maintaining related governance artefacts (Project Management Plans, Schedule Maintenance Plans etc)

This role is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in the office at Bristol, 37 Hours per week which has flexible starting and finishing times.

Qualifications for the Principal Project Planner:
We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must hold, or be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, 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 years 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.