Senior Planner
| Posting date: | 15 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50000-80000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Wigan, WA3 3UB |
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22342-43386308 |
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
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Planner
- Collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks and progress.
- Input into progress reporting, contribute insights, identify issues and propose effective solutions.
- Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
- Contribute to the risk register and undertake schedule risk analysis.
- Work closely with other planners/sections to identify and plan critical interfaces.
- Input into collaborative planning and interface workshops.
- 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.
- Assist 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
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
- Must have bridges, earthworks, drainage experience and preferably experience on Rail
- Use of planning software (P6, Asta ) and a sound knowledge of NEC
- 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.
- Based out of Golborne with travel between Preston and London, must have a full drving licence
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. #MoreToMurphy
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Planner
- Collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks and progress.
- Input into progress reporting, contribute insights, identify issues and propose effective solutions.
- Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
- Contribute to the risk register and undertake schedule risk analysis.
- Work closely with other planners/sections to identify and plan critical interfaces.
- Input into collaborative planning and interface workshops.
- 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.
- Assist 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
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
- Must have bridges, earthworks, drainage experience and preferably experience on Rail
- Use of planning software (P6, Asta ) and a sound knowledge of NEC
- 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.
- Based out of Golborne with travel between Preston and London, must have a full drving licence