Murphy is recruiting for a Planner to work with Energy on Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone 

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.

The Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone (Vanguard West, Vanguard East & Boreas) is an onshore 320kv HVDC cable route running from the landfall site at Happisburgh to the onshore converter station at Necton. The route is approximately 61km long, mainly through agricultural land.   

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, Linear Cables, 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