Senior Engineer

J. Murphy & Sons Ltd; Paisley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

J. Murphy & Sons Ltd is seeking an experienced civil engineering professional to lead design and delivery on major projects.

The role involves establishing best practice in health, safety, and environmental matters, agreeing technical requirements with clients, and overseeing vendor interfaces. You will manage day-to-day workload of engineers, review 3rd party designs, provide technical assessments, and ensure compliance with current legislation.

Qualifications

• IEng/CEng with accredited professional status.
• Experience on large civil engineering projects.
• Experience within Oil or Gas, Substations or Linear Cables.
• Ability and confidence to communicate and present to Top Level Management, Senior level clients and public.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHES department.
• Agree technical requirements with client, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary.
• Undertake site visits and inspections when appropriate.
• Prioritise and monitor the day‑to‑day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team and Key Equipment Suppliers.
• Oversee key vendor packages and contribute to the timely production of design deliverables.
• Manage the interface between key vendor packages and the design team.
• Identify and assess the technical opportunities for value engineering.
• Provide project reports to Engineering Manager as required, including financial and programme progress and forecasts and early warnings on issues.
• Ensure that design work undertaken is carried out in accordance with applicable legal requirements and company procedures and that a high level of professionalism is maintained.
• Manage key vendor detailed designs in accordance with current standards and codes including calculations, design risk assessments and sufficiently detailed sketches for the preparation of working drawings.
• Provide a technical assessment and review of 3rd Party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Murphy requirements.
• Check the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Provide advice and guidance on design issues.
• Resolution of technical project design issues, incidents, defects and failures, incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign.
• Maintain responsibility for the storage, filing and archiving of documents relevant to design tasks.
• Manage the financial and commercial aspects of the project with the support of Engineering Manager, monitoring progress against, and ensuring the project is delivered to, agreed programme and budget.
• Administration and monitoring of design change.

Skills

Communication to management

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Knowledge of health, safety & env

Presentation to clients

Problem solving

Education

IEng/CEng

Job description

Overview

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 engineered solutions to transportation, natural resources, energy, and water sectors.

Responsibilities

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHES department.
• Agree technical requirements with client, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary.
• Undertake site visits and inspections when appropriate.
• Prioritise and monitor the day‑to‑day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team and Key Equipment Suppliers.
• Oversee key vendor packages and contribute to the timely production of design deliverables.
• Manage the interface between key vendor packages and the design team.
• Identify and assess the technical opportunities for value engineering.
• Provide project reports to Engineering Manager as required, including financial and programme progress and forecasts and early warnings on issues.
• Ensure that design work undertaken is carried out in accordance with applicable legal requirements and company procedures and that a high level of professionalism is maintained.
• Manage key vendor detailed designs in accordance with current standards and codes including calculations, design risk assessments and sufficiently detailed sketches for the preparation of working drawings.
• Provide a technical assessment and review of 3rd Party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Murphy requirements.
• Check the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Provide advice and guidance on design issues.
• Resolution of technical project design issues, incidents, defects and failures, incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign.
• Maintain responsibility for the storage, filing and archiving of documents relevant to design tasks.
• Manage the financial and commercial aspects of the project with the support of Engineering Manager, monitoring progress against, and ensuring the project is delivered to, agreed programme and budget.
• Administration and monitoring of design change.

Qualifications

• IEng/CEng
• Experience in large civil engineering projects.
• Experience within Oil or Gas, Substations or Linear Cables.
• Ability and confidence to communicate and present to Top Level Management, Senior level clients and public.
• 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.