Capital Planning Manager

We Served; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence infrastructure company seeks a Capital Planning Manager in Plymouth to shape strategic investment plans for critical national defence projects. This hybrid role involves leading early-stage project development, managing capital budgets, and ensuring compliance with investment guidelines. Candidates should have experience in strategic planning and strong stakeholder management skills. This position offers a competitive salary of £61,474 along with various benefits including generous holiday allowance and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to digital health services

Payment of professional fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience managing capital budgets and financial forecasting.
• Background in strategic planning or programme management.
• Ability to write robust business cases.
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of major project proposals.
• Capture and develop investment requirements.
• Create Green Book-compliant business cases.
• Manage early project lifecycle stages.
• Support CapEx Planning Team with business case development.

Skills

Managing capital budgets

Financial forecasting

Stakeholder management

Writing business cases

Education

HNC/HND level or equivalent experience

PMP qualification

Project management training

Job description

Job Title: Capital Planning Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £61,474 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71192

Shape the Future of Critical Defence Infrastructure

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 Capital Planning Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Capital Planning Manager, you’ll take on a pivotal role within our Capital Planning Group, helping to shape and deliver the strategic investment planning that underpins the future of Devonport Dockyard’s critical infrastructure. From supporting the UK’s submarine programmes to delivering major facilities that enable national defence capability, your work will directly contribute to projects with long‑term significance for the Ministry of Defence and the UK’s operational readiness.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead the development of early‑stage major project proposals, capturing requirements, shaping investment direction and creating robust, Green Book‑compliant business cases that enable informed, strategic decision‑making.

• Capture and develop investment requirements for your designated business area.
• Identify opportunities to bundle project streams into strategic programmes and lead early‑stage development activities.
• Develop robust, Green Book‑compliant business cases with cross‑functional support to guide investment decisions.
• Manage early project lifecycle stages, including facilitation of initial Global Project Management Framework gate reviews.
• Support the CapEx Planning Team with business case development for large or complex internally funded projects and programmes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a 2 – 3 days in the office/onsite and may require occasional travel to other UK sites.

Essential experience of the Capital Planning Manager

• Experience managing capital budgets, financial forecasting and expenditure tracking.
• Background in strategic planning or programme management environments.
• Proven ability to write robust business cases.
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills, ideally including exposure to HM Armed Forces or government stakeholders.
• Experience managing public funds (advantageous).

Qualifications for the Capital Planning Manager

• Educated to HNC/HND level or able to demonstrate equivalent proven experience.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) qualification involving project oversight.
• Further project management training or experience supporting large‑scale infrastructure planning – 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 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

Babcock

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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see 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 [e-mail] 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: 16/02/2026

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