Senior Planner

J Murphy & Sons; Ollerton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner to work with Energy on an OHL Project in the UK, preferably based near Ollerton with travel to sites.

The role leverages in-house expertise and supports groundbreaking energy transmission projects across multiple countries, focusing on design, construction and commissioning.

You will contribute to risk, schedules, and documentation, coordinating with estimators and design engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience on major civil engineering or construction projects.
• Exposure to OHL or HV transmission and distribution work.
• Proficient in planning software such as P6, Asta, TILOS and QSRA.
• Experience with a range of planning techniques for tendering and delivery.
• Understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with planning functions.

Responsibilities

• Assimilate information and summarise work scope for others.
• Prepare a resourced programme and check conformance with expectations.
• Contribute to the risk register and perform risk analysis.
• Prepare visual material to support planned methods.
• Manage personal project documentation in an orderly fashion.
• Define methods and outputs with the estimator and supply chain.
• Liaise with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
• Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and indirect costs.
• Attend bid review meetings to outline work scope and delivery plans.
• Attend handover meetings to define tasks and delivery intentions.

Skills

Major civil engineering projects

OHL/HV transmission exposure

Planning software proficiency

Planning techniques

Commercial interfaces with planning

Tools

Primavera P6

Asta

TILOS

QSRA

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Seniore Plannerto work with Energy on OHL Project. Ideally out of Ollerton with travel to sites.

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 Senior Planner:

• 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.
• Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
• Define methods and establish outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
• Liaise 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.
• 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 clear further defined tasks.
• In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience on Major Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
• Ideally previous exposure to OHL or working on HV Power, Transmission & Distribution Projects
• Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).
• 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.