Project Manager

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, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy 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 4,000 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. Visit (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy

A day in the life of a Murphy Project Manager:

• Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
• Ensure qualifications are in date escalating any issues to your line manager prior to setting teams to work.
• Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of work and manage the project team, providing guidance and direction.
• Undertake line management responsibility of allocated operational and functional resources.
• To be fully accountable for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• Refer significant / judicious issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities. Develop and implement action plans to mitigate / reduce the impact of risks, and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities.
• Manage the "fit to start" process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope.
• Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team.
• Ensure that the project team works to progressively complete handover documentation so that we are "fit to finish", complying with the contracted completion requirements of the Client.
• Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects supported by PSC
• Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and agree the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• To ensure the programme is updated regularly to enable identification of change and early warning of any potential issues and causes for concern.
• Manage and resolve any actual or potential conflicts with the Client or project stakeholders.
• Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern.
• Ensure output and productivity measurement is in place for key activities / trades.
• Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
• Lead the regular review of actual costs identifying any variances to the budget. Ensuring issues are identified and actions implemented to respond in an effective and timely manner.
• Ensuring spend is managed and controlled in line with the forecast and Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• Ensure suppliers and sub-contractors are managed and co-ordinated appropriately.

What's in it for you?

• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. IOSHH, PTS).
• Experience in the project management of an engineering project.
• Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works.
• Client and stakeholder management.along with previous management of a project team.
• Experience in developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets.
• Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• Working knowledge of planning & programming.
• Strong written, oral and numeracy skills.
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• Commercial and contractual awareness
• SMST

Profile:

• Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
• Ensure qualifications are in date escalating any issues to your line manager prior to setting teams to work.
• Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of work and manage the project team, providing guidance and direction.
• Undertake line management responsibility of allocated operational and functional resources.
• To be fully accountable for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• Refer significant / judicious issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities. Develop and implement action plans to mitigate / reduce the impact of risks, and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities.
• Manage the "fit to start" process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope.
• Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team.
• Ensure that the project team works to progressively complete handover documentation so that we are "fit to finish", complying with the contracted completion requirements of the Client.
• Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects supported by PSC
• Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and agree the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• To ensure the programme is updated regularly to enable identification of change and early warning of any potential issues and causes for concern.
• Manage and resolve any actual or potential conflicts with the Client or project stakeholders.
• Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern.
• Ensure output and productivity measurement is in place for key activities / trades.
• Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
• Lead the regular review of actual costs identifying any variances to the budget. Ensuring issues are identified and actions implemented to respond in an effective and timely manner.
• Ensuring spend is managed and controlled in line with the forecast and Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• Ensure suppliers and sub-contractors are managed and co-ordinated appropriately.

What's in it for you?

• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. IOSHH, PTS).
• Experience in the project management of an engineering project.
• Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works.
• Client and stakeholder management.along with previous management of a project team.
• Experience in developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets.
• Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• Working knowledge of planning & programming.
• Strong written, oral and numeracy skills.
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• Commercial and contractual awareness
• SMST