Confidential
Dec 01, 2021
Full time
J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property. Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses - Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as 'One Murphy' by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. There's more to Murphy. Senior Planner - Civil Engineering - North West, Stonecross Murphy are recruiting for a Senior Planner to lead the planning function on a Major Water Treatment Scheme in the North West as part of the Advance Plus United Utilities Framework. The successful candidate will be based out of the Stonecross office with regular visits to sites across the North West. What you will be doing • Undertake the tender planning role in accordance with the business' procedures and processes and the requirements of the contract • Accountable for ensuring that integrated, whole life programmes are prepared from first principles • 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. • Attending 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. • In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support. • Line and functional management of junior planning resources • Coach and mentor junior planning staff and support their professional development • Ensure that the scheduling of programmes is appropriate, contract / procedurally compliant, robust and achievable • Undertake and participate in programme risk workshops using tools such as QSRA • Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders • Mirror the Murphy Values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect in all behaviours. • Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI. Who we're looking for • Experienced planner who has worked on a civils major project previously for a contractor. • Ideal background in a site role (Engineering, planning, management) for a Tier 1 contractor • NEC contract experience essential • Programme management of consultants, stakeholder, and approval processes • Providing project progress reports to team and leading the compilation of upstream client reporting • Client interface • Client management skills • Business intelligence (PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau or similar, preferred but not essential) About The Project A Strategic Working Alliance (SWA) between MWH Treatment and J. Murphy and Sons Limited has been created to deliver future works under AMP 7 for United Utilities as Advance Plus. Advance Plus has been awarded two geographical batches of work across the North and South West with a combined value in excess of £500million over a five-year period. Advance Plus has been collaboratively working to secure AMP 7 work since January 2019. The first contract award for two batches in the North were received in August 2019 with further awards expected thereafter. Advance Plus are currently in the process of developing an integrated project team, which will be based between the Warrington and Preston offices