Senior Task Planner

About the job

Job Title: Senior Task Planner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid working arrangements
Compensation: £48,000 - £58,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57853

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 Senior Task Planner at our Clyde, Faslane site.

The role
As a Senior Task Planner you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Your role will include assisting the Principal Engineer and General Manager in the co-ordination, evaluation, and prioritisation of the Technical Compliance Authority (TCA) portfolio of tasks and requirements.

Day-to-day, you'll will need to consider key resource requirements, along with the integration and interaction of the programmes within areas of newly injected works and scheduled tasks. They will advise on potential bottlenecks and clashes and recommend solutions. They must also ensure the appropriate processes are adhered to whilst optimising the programme of works.

• Health & Safety - At all times adhere to the company Health and Safety polices and where appropriate promote safe working practices whilst planning the portfolio of tasks.
• Task Planning - To establish, maintain and control the task plan with the input of key project stakeholders.
• Task Controls - To identify areas of risk within the plan and to advise and support management of the variances of risk.
• Resource Control - Ensure allocations and assignments are known by resource and smoothing where appropriate.
• Take On - Provide input to weekly 'take on' meeting to advise on resource availability, risks to plan, etc.
• Reporting - as required provide reports for presentation to Senior Management and other key stakeholders.

This role is full time OR part time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1/2 days in the office/onsite and 3/4 days working from home depending on business needs.

Essential experience of the Senior Task Planner

• Knowledge of planning processes and business applications
• Experience in creating plans from scratch not just adapting plans
• Primavera 6 or Microsoft Project knowledge
• People management experience is desirable
• Technical or Engineering background desirable

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

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.

What we offer

• 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
• Potential to develop skills.
• Autonomy to perform the role.

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 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: 20/08/2024

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