Senior Planner

Job Description

Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure.

Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, natural resources, power, and water.

Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses Ground Engineering, Utility Connections, Murphy Plant, Murphy Process Engineering, Pipeline Testing Services, Specialist Welding Services, and Electrical Services.

Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges, and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment, and facilities.

Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers, and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as One Murphy’ - directly delivering the people, plant, and expertise needed to make projects a success.

Senior Planner - Yorkshire Green, Leeds

Murphy is currently recruiting for a Senior Planner to join our award-winning Energy team covering Power, Transmission & Distribution projects such as Substations.

Our team is known for its extensive in-house expertise and continual drive to innovate within the industry. The Senior Planner will lead and be accountable for the planning of the Grid, Yorkshire Green Substation project.

Murphy has designed, constructed, and commissioned projects for clients such as Grid, SSE, and Ørsted, on both transmission and distribution networks within the Energy sector.

What you will be doing :

• Assimilate information and summarise it in a manner that can be used to communicate the work scope to others.
• Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
• Contribute to the risk register and undertake programme risk analysis.
• Prepare visual material in support of planned methods.
• Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
• Define methods and establish outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
• Liaise with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
• Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and other indirect cost items.
• Attend the bid review meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material.
• Attend the handover meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material and clear further defined tasks.
• In consultation with the estimator, advise the project team of required feedback reports and support.

Who we are looking for :

• Experience on Civil Engineering and / or Construction projects.
• Desirable experience working on HV Energy Transmission and Distribution projects.
• Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).
• Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
• A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.

What you’ll get in return :

• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year; holidays increase with length of service.
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review.
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme.
• Life assurance, health screening, and enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus.
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus.
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations.
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, etc.

About Murphy

Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing.

Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities. Access to Murphy Wellbeing : you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.

Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive.

You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture.

Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer, we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

J Murphy & Sons Limited is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. If you think Murphy is the place to help you thrive in a great team dedicated to delivery and engineering excellence and want to work in an inclusive team culture that rewards performance and drives personal development, apply today.

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