Senior Planner - Energy

Murphy International Limited; Kildare; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Discretionary annual bonus

Contributory pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Professional development

Job summary

Murphy International Limited in Ireland is seeking a Senior Planner - Energy to join our Energy and Industry team, based in Kildare or Dublin. The role focuses on developing and managing detailed programme schedules for major energy projects, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and cost constraints.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, applying Primavera P6 and MS Project to plan, monitor, and control progress, risk, and resources across tendering and delivery phases.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in civil engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of planning and project controls experience in construction/engineering.
• Extensive civil engineering contracting experience in the energy sector.
• Experience with a wide range of planning techniques for tendering and contract delivery.
• Good understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with planning.

Responsibilities

• Establish and promote health, safety and environmental best practices with SHQE.
• Assimilate information and summarise it for communication of work scope.
• Prepare resourced programmes and review conformance with requirements.
• Contribute to risk register and perform risk analysis.
• Prepare visual materials and resource schedules for reviews.

Skills

Planning & project controls

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Tendering experience

Risk analysis

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner - Energy to work with our Energy and Industry team in either Kildare or Dublin

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.

What you will be doing:

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.
• 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.
• Prepare resource schedules for use at review.
• Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
• Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
• Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
• Contribute the required written submission material.
• Attend the bid review meeting and handover meetings to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material and accept further defined tasks.
• In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Who we are looking for:

• Relevant Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of Planning and Project Controls experience within the Construction and Engineering industry
• Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting within the Engergy Industry
• 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.
• Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project.

What you'll get in return:

• 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 Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited. 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.

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