Operations Manager

Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (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 and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power 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 3,600 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. 

#MoreToMurphy

Murphy is recruiting for a Operations Manager to work with the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Framework.

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 Operations Manager:

To be fully accountable for the delivery of the projects, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to budget.
Sets the overall standard on the projects/contract.
Ensure the project requirements are identified and delivered.
Provide leadership to the project teams – empowering and inspiring others to successfully deliver.
Strategic resource requirements - assess current and future resource requirements, ensuring plans are devised and implemented to overcome gaps, and capacity issues.
Maintain oversight of the progress and performance of projects within your portfolio.  Critically analyse and review budgets, forecast and performance; identifying areas of concern and ensuring they are resolved.
Lead the review of project performance as part of the business’ reporting processes.
Ensure projects follow the gateway process and that they are “fit to start” and “fit to finish”.
Ensure that project teams are effectively managing stakeholder relationships, scope management, contracts, programme, project controls, forecasting and cost control.
Contribute to the work winning process – proactively engaging with bid teams to support tender submissions.
Lead client engagement and negotiations.  

Still interested, does this sound like you?

Experience in delivering HV Transmission & Distribution or major civils projects.
HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree)
Experience of working on complex multi-discipline Enhancement projects, delivering within programme and cost controls
Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors.  

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 Jack Roberts on (phone number removed) 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