Senior Engineer in Cannock

Company Overview

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Engineer to work with Energy on Western Gas. Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries ensuring their energy security for decades to come. We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A Day in the Life of a Murphy Engineer:

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHES department.
• Agree technical requirements with client, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary.
• Undertake site visits and inspections when appropriate.
• Prioritise and monitor the day-to-day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team and Key Equipment Suppliers.
• Oversee key vendor packages and contribute to the timely production of design deliverables.
• Manage the interface between key vendor packages and the design team.
• Identify and assess the technical opportunities for value engineering.
• Provide project reports to Engineering Manager as required, including financial and programme progress and forecasts and early warnings on issues.
• Ensure that design work undertaken is carried out in accordance with applicable legal requirements and company procedures and that a high level of professionalism is maintained.
• Manage key vendor detailed designs in accordance with current standards and codes including calculations, design risk assessments and sufficiently detailed sketches for the preparation of working drawings.
• Provide a technical assessment and review of 3rd Party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Murphy requirements.
• Check the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Provide advice and guidance on design issues.
• Resolution of technical project design issues, incidents, defects and failures, incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign.
• Maintain responsibility for the storage, filing and archiving of documents relevant to design tasks.
• Manage the financial and commercial aspects of the project with the support of Engineering Manager, monitoring progress against, and ensuring the project is delivered to, agreed programme and budget.
• Administration and monitoring of design change.

Qualifications:

• IEng/CEng.
• Experience in large civil engineering projects.
• Experience within Oil or Gas, Substations or Linear Cables.
• Ability and confidence to communicate and present to Top Level Management, Senior level clients and public.
• Excellent knowledge of current civil engineering legislation as well as Health & Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Ability and confidence to discuss engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines.
• Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures.