Senior Planner

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. 
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Senior Planner – London

Would you like to join one of the UK's Best Big Companies as awarded by Best Companies? If so, J Murphy and Sons Ltd is currently looking for a Senior Planner to lead the planning function on the HS2 project based in West London and is 45 hours per week. 

What you will be doing

• Undertake the tender planning role in accordance with the business’ procedures and processes and the requirements of the contract.
• Accountable for ensuring that integrated, whole life programmes are prepared from first principles
• Contribute the required written submission material.
• Attend the bid review meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material.
• Attending the handover meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material and accept further defined tasks.
• In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.
• Line and functional management of junior planning resources
• Coach and mentor junior planning staff and support their professional development.
• Ensure that the scheduling of programmes is appropriate, contract / procedurally compliant, robust, and achievable.
• Undertake and participate in programme risk workshops using tools such as QSRA.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders.
• Mirror the Murphy Values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect in all behaviours.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Who we’re looking for

• Experienced planner who has worked on a civils major project previously for a contractor.
• Ideal background in a site role (Engineering, planning, management) for a Tier 1 contractor
• NEC contract experience essential
• Programme management of consultants, stakeholder, and approval processes
• Providing project progress reports to team and leading the compilation of upstream client reporting

About the project
As part of the HS2 London to Birmingham route SCS JV has agreed a contract with Murphy to deliver the design and replacement of utilities that are at risk due to unacceptable levels of settlement when the HS2 tunnel boring machine passes beneath. The contract is currently worth circa £20 million and work commenced November 2021.

The project consists of 2 stages, Stage 1 is ECI works and design, Stage 2 is the replacement or diversion of the utilities in accordance with the Stage 1 design. Stage 1 is under NEC Option E and Stage 2 under NEC Option C. Currently there are 5 assets that require replacement or diversion, and these are all Cadent gas mains.