Location
United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner to work within the Energy sector on the EGL1 Project in Durham. Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. We support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries, ensuring energy security for decades to come. We offer a wide range of services including design, construction, and commissioning, delivering Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, demonstrated by our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Planner includes assimilating information and summarising it to communicate the work scope to others, preparing a resourced programme and reviewing it for conformance with expectations and requirements, contributing to the risk register and undertaking programme risk analysis, preparing visual material to support planned methods, managing project documentation in an orderly fashion, defining methods and establishing outputs in consultation with estimators and team members including the supply chain, liaising with design engineers to establish design briefs for temporary works, providing estimators with justified schedules of temporary works and indirect cost items, attending bid review and handover meetings to contribute clear views of work scope and delivery intentions, and advising the project team on required feedback reports and support.

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited, with reported operating profit up 57% on the prior year. We are proud of our diverse workforce representing over 60 nationalities and a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities, and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and significant investment in environmentally friendly plant, there is truly #MoretoMurphy.

Experience
- Experience on Major Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects
- Experience working on HV Power, Transmission & Distribution Projects
- Use of planning software such as P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA
- Active experience working with a wide range of planning techniques in both tendering and contract delivery
- Clear understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function

About you
Organised and detail-oriented with strong communication skills. Able to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and liaise effectively with estimators, engineers, and supply chain partners. Motivated to contribute to innovative and sustainable energy projects.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications in planning, project management, or engineering are desirable but not explicitly stated. A commitment to professional development and continuous learning is expected.