Senior Planner

Senior Planner - North East
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 Energy team covering Power, Transmission & Distribution projects in the North East of England with projects located in Durham & Stockton on Tees. 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.
Following 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 such as National Grid, SSE and Ørsted, on both transmission and distribution networks within the Energy sector.
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.
Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
Provide a link between all parties in regard to the planning community information
Define methods and establish 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.
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 on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
Experience working on HV Energy Transmission and Distribution projects.
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.
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
Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard identity and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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.
J Murphy & Sons Limited is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
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.If you are unable to apply via the usual online process, please call Jack Roberts on 07514 313533 to discuss in more detail.
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