Murphy Group Looking for Project Manager at London Full Time

J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure.

Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property.

Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.

Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as ‘One Murphy’ by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.

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Project Manager 

Murphy are recruiting an experienced civils Project Manager to deliver the full life-cycle, design to delivery of major pipeline in clean water upgrades. 
Murphy are delivering clean and wastewater civil infrastructure projects under AMP 7 for Thames Water in North London over 5-years. Projects will range in complexity and value from £500k – £30m. 

What you will be doing 
* Plan and deliver all work on a medium sized site or many smaller sites, ensuring work is completed on 
* time and to the agreed standard. 
* Ensure contract programmes are planned, reviewed and delivered. 
* Build and develop the wider operational team to deliver all aspects of the project/contract requirements. Line management of Site Managers, Assistant Site Managers and Section Managers. 
* Responsible for effective client relationship management and provides updates to internal and external stakeholders on project/contract progress. 
* Ensure risk assessments are created, in place and reviewed as and when required. 
* Ensures operating plans are in place to ensure sufficient resources and materials are in place. Responsible for a contract with an indicative turnover of between £1M – £15M per annum 
* Responsible for all commercial activities associated with the project including the delivery of the agreed gross margin, management of cost control and other key commercial and financial metrics. 
* Mirror the Murphy Values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect in all behaviours. 
* Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI. 

Who we’re looking for 
* successful experience as a Project Manager with demonstrable acumen to deliver a good profit margin 
* previous experience on a water/utilities project worth £15 million + 
* proven ability to lead teams and performance manage 
* IT literate: Microsoft Office etc 
* Experience of planning and estimating 

About the Project  
Thames Water AMP7 is a 4-year long framework (plus a possible 5 year extension into AMP8) 
Murphy is a Primary Contractor in Lot 5 North London Infrastructure, value £200m 
The framework will consist of the delivery of ECI, detailed design, build, commissioning and handover of water and wastewater infrastructure schemes 
Include individual projects up to £30m (majority will be less than £15m with average value of £5 – 7m) 
Design Partner in place 
Featuring repairs and build of new assets including water treatment plants, pump stations, sewers, pipeline, reservoirs and drainage. 
About Murphy
* Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing. Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities. 
* Access to Murphy Wellbeing: you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.
* Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive. You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture.

What you’ll get in return
* Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
* 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
* Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

If you think Murphy is the place to help you thrive in a great team dedicated to delivery and engineering excellence, and want to work in an inclusive team culture that rewards performance and drives personal development, apply today.