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Marine Project Planner (3–6 Month FTC)
Balaena Hebburn
Fixed Term | Immediate Start
We’re looking for an experienced Marine Project Planner to support a busy schedule of vessel repair, maintenance, and overhaul projects.
It’s a critical role within our fast-paced team and an opportunity to add real value and showcase your expertise so that if a permanent opportunity becomes available you’ll be putting yourself at the front of the queue.
Who are we?
With a combined workforce of over 2,000 employees and operations spanning Gibraltar, Padstow, Tyne, Birkenhead, and Falmouth, Balaena is one of the UK’s most dynamic and regionally anchored maritime groups - combining industrial agility, innovation, and community partnership to support national resilience, commercial competitiveness, and sustainability across both naval and merchant ship sectors.
The integration of our modern facilities in Gibraltar and Padstow with APCL’s infrastructure on Tyne, Birkenhead, and Falmouth created one of the world’s most capable ship repair and shipbuilding groups - with a network of 12 dry docks and strategic reach across the UK and the Mediterranean.
We respond quickly to defence and commercial requirements and deliver consistent quality and reliability to clients worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Build accurate project schedules in MS Project
- Translate vessel specs into detailed, resourced plans
- Allocate labour, materials, and equipment
- Track progress + manage risks
- Produce S-curves, reports, and planning documents
- Support bid planning and commercial teams
- Communicate updates across all project stakeholders
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What You’ll Bring
- Marine maintenance/repair/overhaul experience with dry docks
- Strong MS Project skills
- Commercial planning background
- Engineering/shipbuilding experience
- HNC (minimum) — Degree preferred
- Great communication + organisation
Why Join Us?
- Work on complex marine engineering projects in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. A great opportunity to make an impact quickly. By joining Balaena – you’ll become part of a legacy and will also become part of our future. Our business is flourishing whether it’s working on the ships in our docks or in our fabrication areas.
- Personal Growth - This is an opportunity to make a significant impact while working with and learning from a team of experts from the marine and structural engineering industries. The chance to be part of a team making a real impact on the future of the business.
- Financial Security - with important benefits like your Pension which includes a monthly employer contribution up to 4% and Life cover at 7 x your basic salary is part of your package.
- Healthy Living - We support healthy living and provide help when it’s needed. To ensure that you are able to take time off when you need it, we offer sick pay and to cover everyday health we have a health cash plan, which gives you access to money back on everyday healthcare costs. Your dental, optical, and physiotherapy as well as wellness services including counselling sessions, digital mental health support, 24/7 virtual GP, and an EAP are included.
- Work-life Balance - We offer 25 days of annual leave per year plus Bank Holidays. Maternity, Paternity, and Parental leave support you during those significant life changes, helping you to balance your family responsibilities with work.
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Due to the nature of what we do for some of the customers that we work with, some roles working here are subject to security control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform with us.
You must also undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before your employment starts, which will include a basic DBS check.
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