Production Planner - Electrical

Job Title: Production Planner - Electrical

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £39,607 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role : 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.

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.

• 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).

• 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

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 -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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

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,…