Murphy Group Looking for Senior Planner- Rail at Birmingham 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- Birmingham

Are you a Planner looking for your next challenge and would like to work one of the UK’S Best large companies to work for? If so then we’d love to hear from you. Murphy Group has created a new role for a Planner to work in the Birmingham area which will include work for Network Rail under a long-term framework contract.
The ideal applicant should have previous exposure in rail with canopy renewals,  platform extensions and access.
To prepare and articulate competent plans for any scale of project that comply with Company and functional procedures and standards and contribute to business success. 

What you will be doing:
* Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.
* Engage in a purposeful and well organised manner with other team members.
* 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, ideally with a Tier 1 contractor
* 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