Maintenance Planning Engineer reference: 1285395201

Job Title: Maintenance Planning Engineer

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £34,900 - £45,200 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF68095

Create the Future of Engineering at the Heart of National Defence

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 Maintenance Planning Engineer at our RNAD Coulport site.

The role

As a Maintenance Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a vital role in ensuring that critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure is maintained to the highest standards. This is a position that contributes directly to the readiness, resilience and operational capability of one of the UK’s most strategically important defence sites.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

Supporting the Planning Specialist to maximise efficient use of resources across maintenance activities. Creating, updating and maintaining planned maintenance tasks within the Enterprise Resource Planning system. Issuing work orders for maintenance and reactive tasks, ensuring all prerequisites are met before work begins. Liaising with maintenance teams to monitor progress, resolve issues, update schedules and process documentation. Attending weekly planning meetings to review and reschedule maintenance to maximise berth availability.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday, 07:15 – 16:45 and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Planning Engineer

Experience of planning procedures and processes. Background in maintenance management. Proficiency in MS Office. Experience in planning and project management activities. Understanding of process improvement techniques.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Planning Engineer

HNC in an Engineering discipline or equivalent. Additional engineering or maintenance‑related qualifications - Desirable

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 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 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 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 Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [email protected] 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: 03/02/2026

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