Planner

Murphy; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting for a Planner to work within our Ground Engineering and Piling Business, supporting the Lower Thames Crossing from our JV office in Tilbury. The role involves collaborating with project teams, developing resourced programmes, and contributing to project controls and risk management.

You will be actively involved in tendering and contract delivery, using planning software and a range of techniques to communicate status and implications clearly to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
• Active experience with a range of planning techniques for tendering and contract delivery.
• Understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with planning functions.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with project teams.
• Assimilate information and summarise work scope for others.
• Prepare a resourced programme and review conformance with requirements.
• Contribute to the risk register and undertake programme risk analysis.
• Prepare visuals to support planned methods.
• Manage project documentation.
• Advise on programme related contractual matters.
• Train teams to read and use the programme effectively.
• Set up and maintain Project Controls to evaluate status and flag challenges.
• Handle multiple projects and submissions with organisation and eye for detail.

Skills

Project planning

Planning software

Tools

P6

Asta

TILOS

QSRA

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Planner to work within our Ground Engineering and Piling Business, supporting Lower Thames Crossing from our JV office, in Tilbury. Our engineering teams represent a multi-disciplined range of engineering skills, adding value across all our sectors, and pushing the boundaries of digital construction, engineering innovation and design to deliver intelligent, sustainable and economical engineering solutions.

A Day in the life of a Murphy Planner

• Establish and maintain the relationship with project teams
• 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
• Support the team as experienced advisor on programme related contractual matters
• Train Project teams to read and use the programme in the most effective way
• Set up and maintain Project Controls that allow to evaluate the project status and flag any potential challenge
• Handle multiple projects and submissions through organisation and eye for detail

Experience

• Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects
• Experience 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
• Understanding of Project Controls and how to create simple and effective visuals

What's in it for you?

• 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