Senior Planner

Murphy Technical Services (MTS) is growing and sits within the multidisciplined Specialist Businesses Unit of Murphy. This includes building, ground engineering, electrical services, utility connections, design and engineering, alongside the specialisms of the wider business.

A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Planner:

• 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.
• Undertake programme risk analysis.
• Prepare visual material in support of planned methods.
• Prepare resource schedules for use at review.
• Carry out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
• Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
• Provide a link to communicate planning community information between all parties.
• Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
• Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
• Cooperate 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.
• Contribute the required written submission material.
• 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 accept further defined tasks.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting at Agent level (preferred).
• NEC experience and ideally to have worked on a similar project.
• Use of planning software (P6, ASTA, TILOS, QSRA) and computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project.
• An understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.
• Full UK driving license and happy to travel, when needed.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc.

About Murphy:

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy.

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Michelle Penlington on 07935344342 to discuss in more detail. Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.