Senior Tender Planner/ Sector Head
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £60000-100000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Wigan, WA3 3JD |
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22611-43439025 |
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 Tender Planner / Sector Head
- Manage the pre-construction stage of project planning contributing positively to winning new work for business, supporting and contributing to the tender quality submission with written responses to
- Manage the planning process and collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks and progress.
- Provide planning support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all programme, logistics and delivery aspects are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirement
- Engage with the Planning Manager, Construction Director/Manager to discuss options and methodology, providing a link to communicate planning community information between all parties
- Analyse Tender documents and identify required planning responses
- Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment
- Contribute to the risk register, undertake schedule risk analysis and recommend mitigation
- Engage with the supply chain to verify programme issues.
- Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances
- Support 4D digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission
- Provide a planning handover pack for the delivery team
Still interested does, this sound like you?
- Experience and good commercial knowledge of the sector
- Work Winning, Highways, Ports, Rail Civils, Buildings
- Contractual awareness
- NEC4 and use of planning software (P6, Microsoft Project )
- A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces within the planning function.
- Understanding and demonstrable skills in the use of Asta Programme software
- Planning skills and ability to prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary
- Ideally some 4D planning experience
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. #MoreToMurphy
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Tender Planner / Sector Head
- Manage the pre-construction stage of project planning contributing positively to winning new work for business, supporting and contributing to the tender quality submission with written responses to
- Manage the planning process and collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks and progress.
- Provide planning support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all programme, logistics and delivery aspects are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirement
- Engage with the Planning Manager, Construction Director/Manager to discuss options and methodology, providing a link to communicate planning community information between all parties
- Analyse Tender documents and identify required planning responses
- Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment
- Contribute to the risk register, undertake schedule risk analysis and recommend mitigation
- Engage with the supply chain to verify programme issues.
- Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances
- Support 4D digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission
- Provide a planning handover pack for the delivery team
Still interested does, this sound like you?
- Experience and good commercial knowledge of the sector
- Work Winning, Highways, Ports, Rail Civils, Buildings
- Contractual awareness
- NEC4 and use of planning software (P6, Microsoft Project )
- A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces within the planning function.
- Understanding and demonstrable skills in the use of Asta Programme software
- Planning skills and ability to prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary
- Ideally some 4D planning experience