Senior Planner | Transport

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 (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy Main purpose of the role: To prepare and articulate competent plans for any scale of project that comply with Company and functional procedures and standards and contribute to business success. Key Responsibilities & Duties: Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department. 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. Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others. 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. 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. Qualifications & Skills: Relevant Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent Minimum 5 years of Planning and Project Controls experience within the Construction and Engineering industry Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting within the rail and civil engineering sector Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery. A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function. Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project