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Senior Project Manager - Shipley

Job details
Posting date: 25 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £65000-110000 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 October 2024
Location: Shipley, BD18 2BY
Company: J Murphy & Sons
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 21502-42858926

Summary

Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. #MoreToMurphy
Senior Project Manager
- Shipley
Murphy is looking to recruit an Experienced Senior Project Manager / Senior Contracts Manager for a new depot build in Shipley as part of the wider TransPennine Route Electrification programme between Manchester and York. Experience delivering large multidisciplinary Civil Engineering schemes is a must in exchange for an opportunity to work on the largest Infrastructure project in the North of England.What you will be doing

- Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
- Act as the leader and build the project team, providing guidance, direction and leadership to deliver scope of works
- To be fully accountable for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
- Refer significant / strategic issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
- Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities. Develop and implement action plans to mitigate / reduce the impact of risks, and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities
- Ensure that the project team works to progressively complete handover documentation so that we are “fit to finish”, complying with the contracted completion requirements of the Client.
- Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
- Manage and resolve any actual or potential conflicts with the Client or project stakeholders.
- Ensure the requirements of the contract are administered and discharged appropriately.
- Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and agree the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
- To ensure contract programmes are developed, reviewed and updated in accordance with the contract requirements.
- Ensure that the project works are planned and scheduled at an appropriate level of detail.
- To ensure the programme is updated regularly to enable identification of change and early warning of any potential issues and causes for concern.
- Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern.
- Ensure output and productivity measurement is in place for key activities / trades.
- Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
- Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
- Lead the regular review of actual costs identifying any variances to the budget. Ensuring issues are identified and actions implemented to respond in an effective and timely manner.
- Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
- Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered
- Supply chain management, ensure suppliers and sub-contractors are managed and co-ordinated appropriately.


Who we are looking for

- Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (SMSTS / NEBOSH / SEATS).
- Rail depot build experience including large scale Portal Frame buildings and Cladding, Earthworks and heavy Civil Engineering works.
- Expertise in the project management of an engineering project.
- Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works.and competent in the administration of construction contracts.
- Expertise in developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets, planning and programming
- Expertise in the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
- HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
- Professionally qualified or working towards.
- PTS