Murphy Group Looking for Senior Site Manager at Cannock 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 Site Manager (civils) – Birmingham/ Cannock 
Murphy are recruiting a Senior Site Manager to lead and be the main point of contact on-site for a mixed package of utilities related schemes for a 5-year framework with Severn Trent Water.
What you will be doing 
* To plan and deliver all work on site or a few smaller sites, ensuring work is completed on time and to the agreed standard
* To ensure short and medium contract programmes are planned, reviewed and delivered
* To monitor progress periodically against the project plan and monitor expenditure, resolving issues but may escalate critical operational issues to the Project Manager (if a larger site)
* Line management of Section Managers and other workflow supervisors
* Provide periodic updates to clients on project/contract progress, typically operational in nature
* Ensure risk assessments are created, in place and reviewed as and when required
* Review plant, labour and materials to ensure resources are in place for the short to medium term (1-3 months)
* Liaise with the Project Manager to resolve any technical issues outside of the scope of works

Who we are looking for
* Previous management responsibility of a large team 15-25 people including: engineers, foreman, supervisors, operatives and apprentices
* Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures. RAMS and Health and Safety knowledge
* Confidently communicate and present to management, clients and the public
* Discuss and advise on engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines
* An understanding of the commercial issues in undertaking a medium scale construction project
* Previous experience as a Site Manager within civils
* Operating IT systems, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
* CSCS Card (Supervisor or Managers)
* SMSTS (CITB)
* ISOH Managing Safety
* First Aid at Work
* Temporary Works Awareness (CITB)
* Environmental Management (SEATS)
* Asbestos Management
* CDM Awareness
* COSHH Awareness
* DSEAR Awareness
* Manual Handling
* Shea Passport
* Water Hygiene

About the Project 
Our Water Business is operating nationally providing world-class infrastructure solutions to Thames water, United Utilities, Severn Trent, HS2, Bristol Water, South East Water, Wessex Water and Sutton & East Surrey Water. The Water Business has an annual turnover of c. £120 million.
Severn Trent Water (STW) Capital Delivery Framework for the 7 successful LOT 1 Contractors comprises of a multidisciplinary programme of works covering
* Clean & Wastewater Treatment
* Infrastructure and
* Reactive works across its vast region

STW has received ‘Fast Track’ status from OFWAT and are thus 1 of 3 Water Utilities proceeding from 1 April 2020 with their AMP 7 Programme of works.
For LOT1 contractors this will be a share of around £1.5bn over the next 5 years. The Framework has within it a provision to extend the contract to eight years based on performance. Call – Off Orders based on NEC4 Options A, C or E forms of contract selected as appropriate for given projects or batches of work.

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.

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, then get in touch. 

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 or sell 2 holiday days
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Above market rate contributory pension scheme
* Other benefits if applicable
* Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

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