Job Description
Job Title:  Planner
Job Location:  Lower Thames Crossing
Country/Region:  United Kingdom

Murphy is recruiting for a Planner to work within our Ground Engineering and Piling Business, supporting Lower Thames Crossing from our JV office, in Tilbury. 

 

Our engineering teams represent a multi-disciplined range of engineering skills, adding value across all our sectors, and pushing the boundaries of digital construction, engineering innovation and design to deliver intelligent, sustainable and economical engineering solutions.

 

A Day in the life of a Murphy Planner:

  • Establish and maintain the relationship with project teams
  • 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.
  • Support the team as experienced advisor on programme related contractual matters
  • Train Project teams to read and use the programme in the most effective way
  • Set up and maintain Project Controls that allow to evaluate the project status and flag any potential challenge
  • Handle multiple projects and submissions through organisation and eye for detail

Still interested, does this sound like you?

  • Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects
  • 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.
  • Understanding of Project Controls and how to create simple and effective visuals

 

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, Platinum 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 Colin Shaw on 07353 134 836 to discuss in more detail.