Cavendish Nuclear
Senior Planner
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Job Title: Senior Planner
Location: Glasgow + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £56,000-£71,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74215
Shape Complex Defence Infrastructure Projects and Help Build a Safer Future
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Planner based at our Glasgow site.
The role
As a Senior Planner, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering critical defence and nuclear infrastructure projects that support the UK's national security.
Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To
- Developing, implementing, and maintaining project structures including Work Breakdown Structures, Organisational Breakdown Structures, Resource Breakdown Structures, and Cost Breakdown Structures
- Developing, baselining, and maintaining integrated project schedules across multiple project levels
- Ensuring alignment between scheduling systems and project financial and material demand toolsets
- Providing schedule analysis, status updates, performance metrics, and critical path reporting to support project decision-making
- Producing resource and cost-loaded schedules that support integrated business planning and project performance management
This role is based in Glasgow, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available.
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- Experience in project planning within an engineering, nuclear, defence, construction, or major infrastructure environment is beneficial
- Using advanced scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project to develop and maintain integrated schedules
- Managing project schedules throughout the full project lifecycle, from bid phase through to project close-out
- Applying quantitative risk analysis and schedule performance assessment techniques
Qualifications For The Senior Planner
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - 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 share scheme
- 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 Cavendish 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
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Cavendish
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover 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: 30/07/2026
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