Murphy Group Looking for Senior Planner at Leeds 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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Senior Planner – Energy / Work Winning – Leeds

J Murphy and Sons Ltd is currently looking for a Senior Planner to join our award winning team working within the M4 Energy Sector. The ideal candidate will lead the planning function on their allocated project, ensuring that all projects within their portfolios are effectively planned, scheduled, and monitored. Reporting to the Sector Head of Planning, project leads and operational support roles.

Our team is known for its extensive in-house expertise and continual drive to innovate within the industry. Adopting the ‘One Murphy’ approach, we’re able to deliver all aspects of the projects we work on. Murphy has designed, constructed and commissioned projects for clients including National Grid, SSE and Ørsted, on both transmission and distribution networks. 

Currently ranked as a Top 25 Best Large Companies in the UK to work for by Best Companies this is a fantastic time to join J. Murphy & Sons! Take a look at the role outline and if you think you fit the bill, and want to work in a team that rewards performance, drives personal development and offers a great place to work delivering exciting projects, then get in touch!

What you will 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 and formal training of others.
* Provide a link between all parties in regards to the planning community information
* 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.
* Liaise 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 clear further defined tasks.
* In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Who we are looking for:
* Experience managing a small team of planners.
* Experience within Civil Engineering / Construction
* 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.
* Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project and P6.