Senior Planner

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner to work with the Energy Team on the National Grid, Uxbridge Moor Project.
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 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.
  
• Contribute to the risk register and undertake programme risk analysis.
  
• Prepare visual material in support of planned methods.
  
• Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
  
• Define methods and establish outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
  
• Liaise 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.
  
• 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 clear further defined tasks.
  
• In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.
  Still interested, does this sound like you?
  
• Experience on Major Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
  
• Desirable experience working on HV Power, Transmission & Distribution Projects.
  
• Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).
  
• Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
  
• A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.
  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 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 solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy 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 4,000 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