Job Title: Maintenance Planner
Location: Plymouth, Devon.
Compensation: £43,671 - £46,064
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76733
Help keep critical facilities running in support of a safe and secure world
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Maintenance Planner at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As a Maintenance Planner, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective planning, coordination, and delivery of facilities maintenance activities across a diverse and complex operational environment. Supporting critical infrastructure and assets, you'll help maintain compliance, improve operational efficiency, and enable high-quality facilities services that support Babcock's mission.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across a broad range of engineering and facilities disciplines, influencing business resilience, asset performance, and continuous improvement. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation while developing your expertise in maintenance planning, facilities management, and operational delivery within the defence and engineering sector.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Planning and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure work is completed efficiently and in line with operational priorities
- Maintaining accurate maintenance records and asset information within planning systems
- Monitoring compliance with maintenance standards and supporting external audit requirements
- Collaborating with engineering, facilities, and operational teams to prioritise and schedule work activities
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance service delivery, asset performance, and business resilience
This role is full time and based onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. Hybrid working patterns are available following an initial onboarding and training period
Essential experience of the Maintenance Planner:
- Experience working within a facilities management or maintenance environment
- Demonstrable experience applying maintenance planning principles and best practice
- Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, priorities, and multidisciplinary teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organisation
- Knowledge of SFG20 maintenance standards would be advantageous
Qualifications for the Maintenance Planner:
- National Certificate or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline, facilities management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
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 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: 05/11/2026
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