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Commercial Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 19 September 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24000-33000 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 October 2025
Location: Leeds, LS9 0SG
Company: J Murphy & Sons
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 23234-43664617

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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

A day in the life of a Murphy Commercial Assistant
- Collation and copying of support documents for final accounts
- Checking of site agents weekly plant and weekly labour lists against actual costs
- Processing Subcontract invoices and ensuring that these are saved in the relevant folders
- Collecting Material Invoices and ensuring that these are saved in the relevant folders
- General Administrative duties from time to time
- Resolve internal and external customer enquiries, referring those that you are unable to resolve to the correct recipient.
- Maintain accurate paper and computer-based records.
- Produce correspondence, documents and presentations to specification using a variety of media.
- Maintain established paper and computer-based filing systems.
- Conduct financial duties, for example, processing invoices or tracking costs.
- Recording of staff time sheet data on to tracking spreadsheet

Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Previous experience working with high volumes of data
- Strong knowledge of MS packages
- Construction experience in a commercial administrator role would be good
- Strong administrator , good with figures and happy to work in a fast paced environment
- Looking for a career in commercial construction
- Based in Leeds
- Cross Green, must be able to drive

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