Senior Planner

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. Visit (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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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.  

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Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
Desirable experience working on Oil & Gas 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.
Can be based anywhere in the UK with occassional travel