Project Manager

Thetrupgrade; Cannock; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays (with

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Private healthcare

Development opportunities

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting for a Project Manager (Steel Erecting) to lead and deliver projects from our Warrington office, with site-based deployment and away-from-home requirements as needed by locations.

You will oversee safety, planning, budgets, and contracts, coordinating with clients and internal teams to meet programme milestones and commercial targets.

Qualifications

• Safety training and qualifications relevant to site/steel works.
• Experience managing engineering projects.
• Knowledge of administering construction contracts.
• Client and stakeholder management experience.
• Ability to manage a project team.
• Experience developing forecasts and budgets.
• Awareness of project controls and status reviews.
• Knowledge of planning & programming.
• Strong written, oral and numeracy skills.
• Commercial and contractual awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and successfully deliver projects or significant work packages within larger programmes.
• Ensure safe execution, on-time delivery, high quality, and compliance with acceptance criteria.
• Manage project teams and stakeholders across the project lifecycle.

Skills

Safety training

Project management

Technical knowledge

Contract administration

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Forecasts & budgets

Project controls

Planning & programming

Written & numeracy skills

Commercial awareness

Education

HNC / HND or NVQ5 (or Degree)

Degree qualification

Job description

Job Location: Cannock Hawks Green Lane, Cannock Staffordshire

Country/Region: United Kingdom

Murphy is recruiting for a Project Manager to join our Steel Erecting team, based out of our Warrington office.

As a Project Manager (Steel), you will lead and successfully deliver projects or significant work packages within larger programmes, ensuring safe execution, on‑time delivery, exceptional quality, compliance with acceptance criteria, and the achievement of targeted commercial outcomes.

This is a site‑based role, and the successful candidate must be willing and able to work away from home as required by project locations.

A Day in the life of a Murphy Project Manager (Steel Erecting):

Essential

• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. IOSHH, PTS).
• Experience in the project management of an engineering project.
• Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works.
• Awareness of the administration of construction contracts.
• Client and stakeholder management.
• Management of a project team.
• Experience in developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets.
• Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• Working knowledge of planning & programming.
• Strong written, oral and numeracy skills.
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• Commercial and contractual awareness.

Preferred

• Professionally qualified or working towards.
• Degree qualified.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience in Construction or Civil Engineering projects.
• Experience within RAMs & Temporary Works.
• Excellent knowledge of current civil engineering legislation as well as Health & Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Ability and confidence to discuss engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines.
• Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures.
• Self-motivated, energetic and the capacity to identify critical needs and concerns in project delivery to ensure the project is delivered on time and budget.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• 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
• Generous Private Healthcare Allowance
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra 2 days holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts, 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

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