Operational Planner

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Operational Planner, supporting the planning and delivery of Maintenance, Repair and Operations activities across a range of military platforms and equipment., As an Operational Planner, you'll play a key role in ensuring maintenance workloads are planned, resourced and delivered effectively. Using enterprise planning systems and supporting tools, you'll help translate operational demand into robust, achievable plans while identifying risks, constraints and dependencies. You'll work closely with Operations and support functions to protect delivery performance, manage capacity and provide clear management information to support decision-making. Day-to-day, you will be:

• Planning Maintenance, Repair and Operations workloads using ERP systems and associated planning tools.
• Assessing capacity, skills, materials, facilities, tooling and work-centre productivity to create achievable plans.
• Identifying risks, dependencies and constraints, and communicating impacts to key stakeholders.
• Producing accurate management information on scenarios, status and performance.
• Ensuring planning data, material assessments and job pack documentation are completed accurately and on time.
• Building strong working relationships with Operations and support teams to enable successful delivery.
  
  Experience using an ERP system for scheduling or operational planning.
• Experience working with and analysing large volumes of data.
• Understanding of the planning cycle within a Maintenance, Repair and Operations environment.
• Experience creating or working with performance metrics and management information.
Qualifications for the Operational Planner: Educated to Level 3 or equivalent (such as an advanced apprenticeship, NVQ, A-level, IB Diploma or equivalent workplace experience). Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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, 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.

This is a full-time, fixed-term role for 10 months, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday., 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.