Project Manager in Cambridge

Murphyis 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 solutionsto infrastructure sectors includingtransportation;natural resources; energy and water.Headquartered in London, Murphy hasa 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 around4,000engineers, 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 www.murphygroup.comor follow us onLinkedIn,Facebook, InstagramandX: #MoretoMurphy

A day in the life of a Murphy Project Manager

• - To be fully ownership for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• - Ensure works are planned, managed and delivered in a safe, controlled and environmentally sustainable manner.
• - Ensure risk assessments are created, in place and reviewed regularly.
• - Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations
• - Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of works.
• - Manage the project team, providing guidance and direction and assist their professional development.
• - Chair regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out.
• - Ensure the project requirements are identified, understood and delivered and key issues are resolved and controlled.
• - Refer any significant issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• - 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 team to the delivery team.
• - Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects assisted by PSCDevelop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• - Ensure the requirements of the contract are complied to by the project team and administered and discharged appropriately.
• - Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and concur the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• - Ensure detailed records and allocation sheets are maintained for all aspects of the project.
• - Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
• - Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• - Leading the review of the project CRF on a monthly basis.
• - Ensuring the project performance is reported in a transparent and accurate manner
• - Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• - Assist the procurement of suppliers and sub-contractors.

Who we are looking for

• - Experience in high profile, politically delicaterailway enhancement projects with a focus on bridges and structures
• - Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. PTS).
• - Experience in the project and construction management of an engineering project, integrating multi-disciplinary workstreams from multiple contractors.
• - Client and stakeholder management and management of a project team
• - Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• - Commercial awareness and experience of planning programming
• - HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• - Professionally qualified or working towards.
• - Driven forward-thinker who flourishes on finding innovative solutions to delivery challenges