Senior Planner – Major Civil & HV Transmission Projects

Murphy; Scotland; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays + buy/

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme (above market rate)

Life assurance and health screening

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Professional development investments

Job summary

Murphy is seeking a Senior Planner to support major civil engineering and HV transmission projects. You will develop resourced programmes, manage risk, and coordinate with estimators and design engineers to define temporary works and cost plans.

In this role you will contribute to tendering and contract delivery, produce clear schedule outputs, and support bid and handover activities with structured, data-driven materials.

Qualifications

• Experience on Major Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
• Experience working on HV Power, Transmission & Distribution Projects.
• Active experience of planning techniques in tendering and contract delivery.
• Clear understanding of commercial interfaces with the planning function.

Responsibilities

• Assimilate information and summarise it for communication of work scope.
• Prepare a resourced programme and review conformance with expectations.
• Contribute to the project risk register and perform risk analysis.
• Prepare visual material to support planned methods.
• Manage project documentation in an orderly fashion.
• Define methods and outputs with the estimator and supply chain involvement.
• 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 present work scope and delivery plans.
• Attend handover meetings with prepared material and clearly defined tasks.
• Advise project team on required feedback reports and support.

Skills

Major civil projects

HV power projects

Planning techniques

Tendering & contract delivery

Tools

P6

Asta

TILOS

QSRA

Job description

Murphy is seeking a Senior Planner to support major civil engineering and HV transmission projects. You will develop resourced programmes, manage risk, and coordinate with estimators and design engineers to define temporary works and cost plans.

In this role you will contribute to tendering and contract delivery, produce clear schedule outputs, and support bid and handover activities with structured, data-driven materials.