Senior Construction Manager

J Murphy & Sons; North Carolina; On-site; USD 93,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Discretionary annual bonus

Above market pension

Job summary

Murphy is seeking a Senior Construction Manager to lead the Energy EGL1 project in Seaham, County Durham. This role demands strong senior leadership, construction management expertise, and robust stakeholder engagement to drive delivery in a complex EPC environment in the UK.

You will manage project teams, coordinate constructability input, and ensure health and safety, quality, and CDM compliance across all construction activities.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior managerial role.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Proven leadership with focus on people development.

Responsibilities

• Overall management of project teams during construction and installation phases.
• Coordinate constructability input during solution identification and development.
• Allocate construction staff to projects based on experience and skills.
• Liaise with Project Management to ensure appropriate resource pool size and skills mix.
• Oversee construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety Legislation on all activities.
• Ensure duties of Principal Contractor are performed per CDM Regulations.
• Ensure construction activities comply with quality procedures.
• Collaborate with other leaders to enable project development from design to handover.

Skills

Senior management

Construction management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree)

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Construction Manager to work with Energy on the EGL1 Project in Seaham, County Durham.

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.

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Construction Manager to work with Energy on the EGL1 Project in Seaham, County Durham.

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 Construction Manager:

• Overall management of project teams during the construction and installation phase of the project.
• Co‑ordination of constructability input during solutions identification and development phase.
• Allocation of construction staff to projects ensuring that appropriate construction and installation staff are appointed to projects: based on experience, skills and knowledge.
• Liaises with the Project Management to ensure that the construction resource pool is an appropriate size, with an appropriate blend of skill sets for the projected workload.
• Overall management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials.
• Ensures that all construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety Legislation.
• Ensures that the duties of the Principal Contractor are discharged in accordance with the CDM Regulations.
• Ensures that all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with quality procedures.
• Interfaces with all other functional leaders within the organisation to facilitate successful development of the project from solution stage constructability through construction, installation, commissioning, and handover to the client.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience within a Senior Managerial role.
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors.
• A true leader with passion for people development, can do attitude and a flare for innovation.

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 and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. 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. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard identity and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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