Works Superintendent
| Posting date: | 30 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £20-30 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 June 2025 |
| Location: | Scotland, KW12 6XA |
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22763-43422775 |
Summary
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, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy 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 4,000 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. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
What your day will look like:
- Every day running of direct labour, earth works, muck shift and general construction.
- Manage on-site resources including plant, machinery, and materials, to optimise productivity and project efficiency.
- Oversee excavation, filling, and compaction operations, applying best practices and maintaining compliance with environmental and safety standards.
- Supervise a team of groundworkers and machine operatives, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant execution of earthworks activities.
- Coordinate effectively with subcontractors and internal teams to maintain workflow and meet project timelines.
- Uphold and promote a strong safety culture, ensuring all work meets the highest safety standards and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety Requirements.
- Site briefings, risk assessments.
- Manage subcontractors and suppliers.
- Ordering of materials and plant equipment.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices project requirements.
- Collaborate with project managers, clients, and stakeholders.
- Manage subcontractors and suppliers.
- Maintain Murphy project quality controls to help us always deliver.
- Delivery of works within programme and to budget.
- Maintain rigorous quality control and deliver work to the highest specification, ensuring project success from start to finish.
What we need from you:
- Experience on large earthworks projects
- Strong technical knowledge of earthworks processes, soil behaviour, and construction materials.
- SSSTS / SMSTS Card holder
- Strong communicator
- Strong collaborator with the ability to build solid working relationships across the team.
- Flexibility to travel and stay away from home.
- Proficiency in relevant engineering software and Microsoft suites, in particular Microsoft Excel
- Full UK driving licence.
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
What your day will look like:
- Every day running of direct labour, earth works, muck shift and general construction.
- Manage on-site resources including plant, machinery, and materials, to optimise productivity and project efficiency.
- Oversee excavation, filling, and compaction operations, applying best practices and maintaining compliance with environmental and safety standards.
- Supervise a team of groundworkers and machine operatives, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant execution of earthworks activities.
- Coordinate effectively with subcontractors and internal teams to maintain workflow and meet project timelines.
- Uphold and promote a strong safety culture, ensuring all work meets the highest safety standards and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety Requirements.
- Site briefings, risk assessments.
- Manage subcontractors and suppliers.
- Ordering of materials and plant equipment.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices project requirements.
- Collaborate with project managers, clients, and stakeholders.
- Manage subcontractors and suppliers.
- Maintain Murphy project quality controls to help us always deliver.
- Delivery of works within programme and to budget.
- Maintain rigorous quality control and deliver work to the highest specification, ensuring project success from start to finish.
What we need from you:
- Experience on large earthworks projects
- Strong technical knowledge of earthworks processes, soil behaviour, and construction materials.
- SSSTS / SMSTS Card holder
- Strong communicator
- Strong collaborator with the ability to build solid working relationships across the team.
- Flexibility to travel and stay away from home.
- Proficiency in relevant engineering software and Microsoft suites, in particular Microsoft Excel
- Full UK driving licence.