Operations Director

Murphy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Above market rate pension

Life assurance

Healthcare and health screening

Professional development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting for an Operations Director to work with the Energy Team on the National Grid, ETP Framework in Kentish Town and South West Wales.

Our business leads a range of EPC projects in energy, with a strong emphasis on delivering on time and within budget. This role requires senior operational leadership, strong commercial awareness, and proven experience across large multi-discipline projects.

Qualifications

• HV transmission projects 132kV–400kV or major civil works.
• Experience in an Operations Director or senior managerial role.
• HNC / HND qualification.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
• Experience delivering complex multi-discipline enhancement projects with cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the scope of works and ensure delivery on time, to quality standards, and within financial targets.
• Set the standard on projects and ensure consistency across the portfolio.
• Develop and lead the operational and project management team; line management of Project Directors.
• Manage the handover from bid to delivery and maintain client/stakeholder relationships.
• Develop detailed cost and resource forecasts; drive improvement actions to meet financial objectives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Contractual awareness

Education

HNC / HND

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Operations Director to work with the Energy Team on the National Grid, ETP Framework in Kentish Town and South West Wales.

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. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver 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, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Operations Director:

• Lead the scope of works and ensure they are delivered in a safe manner, on time, to the required quality standards, meeting the acceptance criteria and achieving the expected financial outcomes.
• Sets the overall standard on the project/contract, ensuring consistency across the portfolio and in line with standards policies and procedures.
• Build and develop the wider operational and project management team to build management capability and deliver all aspects of the project/contract requirements.
• Line management of Project Directors that are accountable for the operational delivery of the project, chairing regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out.
• Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope. Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive, and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders.
• Present strategic updates and develop strategic plans.
• Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
• Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience in delivering HV Transmission projects within 132kV to 400kV or major civil projects.
• Experience within a Operations Director or Senior Managerial role.
• HNC / HND
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
• Experience of working on complex multi-discipline Enhancement projects, delivering within programme and cost controls
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors.

What’s in it for you?

• 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
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard identity and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK