Senior Planner

Senior Planner - South

Would you like to join one of the UK's Best Big Companies as awarded by Best Companies? Murphy is currently recruiting for a Senior Planner to join our award-winning Electrical Services team whch is part of our Specialist Business unit.. Our team is known for its extensive in-house expertise and continual drive to innovate within the industry. The Senior Planner will be accountable for ensuring that projects and tenders are effectively planned, scheduled, and monitored.

The Senior Planner will prepare and articulate competent plans for any scale of project that comply with Company and functional procedures and standards and contribute to business success. You will establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department. 

What you'll be doing
•    Assimilate information and summarise it in a manner that can be used to communicate the work scope to others.
•    Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
•    Contribute to the risk register and undertake programme risk analysis.
•    Prepare visual material in support of planned methods.
•    Prepare resource schedules for use at review.
•    Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
•    Carry out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
•    Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
•    Provide a link to communicate planning community information between all parties
•    Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
•    Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
•    Cooperate with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
•    Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and other indirect cost items.
•    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.

Who we are looking for

• Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting at Agent level (preferred).
• NEC experience and ideally to have worked on a similar project
• Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).and computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project 
• Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
• An understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.
• Must be able to drive and happy to travel, when needed.

About Murphy

• Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing. Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities. 
• Access to Murphy Wellbeing: you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.
• Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive. You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture. 

What you’ll get in return

• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

If you think Murphy is the place to help you thrive in a great team dedicated to delivery and engineering excellence and want to work in an inclusive team culture that rewards performance and drives personal development, apply today.

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call 07801 960 464 to discuss in more detail.

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