Senior Planner - South

Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (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 and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power 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 3,600 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. 

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Senior Planner - South

Would you like to join one of the UK's Best Big Companies as awarded by Best Companies? Murphy is currently recruiting for a Senior Planner to join our award-winning Electrical Services team whch is part of our Specialist Business unit.. Our team is known for its extensive in-house expertise and continual drive to innovate within the industry. The Senior Planner will be accountable for ensuring that projects and tenders are effectively planned, scheduled, and monitored.

The Senior Planner will prepare and articulate competent plans for any scale of project that comply with Company and functional procedures and standards and contribute to business success. You will establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department. 

What you'll be doing
•    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.
•    Prepare resource schedules for use at review.
•    Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
•    Carry out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
•    Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
•    Provide a link to communicate planning community information between all parties
•    Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
•    Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members,  including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
•    Cooperate 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.
•    Contribute the required written submission material.
•    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 accept further defined tasks.
•    In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Who we are looking for

Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting at Agent level (preferred).
NEC experience and ieally to have worked on a similar project
Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).and computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project 
Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
An understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.
Must be able to drive and happy to tavel, when needed