Maintenance Planner

Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Location: Plymouth, Devon.

Compensation: £43, - £46,

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

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 Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 29, 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.

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