Job Title: Planning Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75860
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 Plymouth, Devon site.
The role
As a Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll join a specialist planning team supporting the delivery of in-service submarine maintenance programmes that are critical to Royal Navy operations. This is an opportunity to play a key role in ensuring submarine availability by transforming complex engineering and maintenance data into robust, achievable maintenance plans.
Working within a highly collaborative environment, you'll engage with a variety of stakeholders to identify maintenance requirements, resolve planning challenges, and develop schedules that support the successful delivery of engineering activities. Your work will directly contribute to national security while offering excellent opportunities to develop your planning, engineering, and project controls expertise within one of the UK's leading defence and engineering organisations.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to
- Identify maintenance activities and work packages from a range of engineering data sources.
- Develop and maintaining indicative planning schedules and key date schedules.
- Resolve planning issues, data gaps, and activity ambiguities to support delivery objectives.
- Liaise with engineering teams, project stakeholders, and customers to ensure planning accuracy and quality.
- Support the planning and coordination of in-service submarine maintenance periods.
This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Flexible working arrangements are available. Travel to other Babcock sites, including Bristol and Clyde, may occasionally be required.
Essential experience of the Planning Engineer
- Experience delivering engineering projects, maintenance programmes, or engineering services.
- Experience analysing technical information and translating requirements into structured plans.
- Experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders in a complex environment.
- Planning, project management, or project controls experience would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of submarine or surface ship operations and maintenance activities, and familiarity with Primavera P6, would be beneficial
Qualifications for the Planning Engineer
- Engineering qualification such as NC, HNC, HND, or equivalent demonstrable engineering experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 29,000 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: 05/10/2026
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