Senior Planner

Senior Planner - Construction

Cookstown, Dublin (Energy)

About Us:

Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, USA and Australia, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, energy and natural resources. We also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Plant; Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services and Electrical Services.

Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs more than 4,300 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as ‘One Murphy’ by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.

Main purpose of the role:

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• 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 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 accept further defined tasks.
In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 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 Water 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 Murphy offers in return:

• Competitive salary & Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Generous private Healthcare allowance
Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts, cycle to work scheme etc.

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

If you have any queries, please email HR@murphygroup.ie.