Murphy is recruiting for a Project Manager (Piling) to work with our Ground Engineering Team based on site supporting infrastructure projects in Kent.  

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 Project Manager:

• Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
• Ensure qualifications are in date escalating any issues to your line manager prior to setting teams to work.
• Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of work and manage the project team, providing guidance and direction.
• Undertake line management responsibility of allocated operational and functional resources.
• To be fully accountable for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• Refer significant / judicious issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved. 
• Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities.  Develop and implement action plans to mitigate / reduce the impact of risks, and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities.
• Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope.  Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team.
• Ensure that the project team works to progressively complete handover documentation so that we are “fit to finish”, complying with the contracted completion requirements of the Client.
• Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects supported by PSC
• Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and agree the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• To ensure the programme is updated regularly to enable identification of change and early warning of any potential issues and causes for concern.
• Manage and resolve any actual or potential conflicts with the Client or project stakeholders.
• Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern.
• Ensure output and productivity measurement is in place for key activities / trades.
• Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
• Lead the regular review of actual costs identifying any variances to the budget.  Ensuring issues are identified and actions implemented to respond in an effective and timely manner.
• Ensuring spend is managed and controlled in line with the forecast and Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• Ensure suppliers and sub-contractors are managed and co-ordinated appropriately.

What's in it for you?

• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. IOSHH, PTS).
• Experience in the project management of an engineering project.
• Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works.
• Client and stakeholder management.along with previous management of a project team.
• Experience in developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets.
• Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• Working knowledge of planning & programming.
• Strong written, oral and numeracy skills.
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• Commercial and contractual awareness
• SMST