Job Title: Production Planner - Electrical
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £39,607 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70410
Help Shape the Future of Submarine Support
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 Production Planner - Electrical at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Production Planner - Electrical, you’ll play an essential role in ensuring our submarine projects stay on track and are delivered safely, efficiently and on schedule. Working within our Submarines business, you’ll support the planning and execution of varied engineering work packages that directly contribute to national defence and the long‑term availability of Royal Navy submarine platforms.
Day-to-day, you’ll liaise with a wide range of teams across the site, gaining exposure to operations, engineering, project management and stakeholder engagement. Whether you’re analysing work specifications, enabling activities, or driving planning accuracy, your contribution will support major defence engineering programmes, offering outstanding opportunities for personal growth, technical development and long‑term career progression.
- Analyse and interpret work specifications to ensure full understanding of customer requirements and project deliverables.
- Link all elements of work to the Work Breakdown Structure, enabling activities and ensuring they are commercially processed and tracked.
- Process emergent or additional work in line with project schedules, agreeing technical and contractual content to enable progression.
- Manage enablement risks, support look‑ahead reviews and drive progressive close‑out to maintain project efficiency.
- Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders to resolve technical queries and ensure requirements are fully understood.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Production Planner - Electrical
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Awareness of Project Management tools and how they support project lifecycle delivery (desirable).
- Experience using the Project Delivery Framework and Project Management principles (desirable).
- Project planning and lifecycle experience (desirable).
- Proficiency with Planning, Estimating, Production Systems and SAP (desirable).
Qualifications for the Production Planner - Electrical
- Level 3 qualification in engineering, project management, construction management or a related field, or demonstrable experience operating at this level of responsibility.
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 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 Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see 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 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.
Closing date: 04/03/2026
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