Murphy
Design Coordinator
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Design Coordinator
Murphy is recruiting for a Design Coordinator to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with Thames Water, as part of the AMP8 programme.
Murphy is a long-standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water, Bristol Water, South East Water, and Uisce Éireann, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.
A Day in the Life of a Murphy Design Coordinator
- Assist the Design Manager to deliver high quality designs to budget and programme
- Prepare briefs/remits for design packages and for site investigation and survey packages
- Strike up good working relationships with external and internal design and construction teams to deliver integrated designs which are buildable and maintainable
- Review submissions as directed for quality and sufficiency
- Update design folders and registers on an ongoing basis
- Produce minutes and schedules for Design Review Meetings
- Assist the wider engineering team members as required with engineering input
- Able to communicate engineering ideas through sketching and drawing by hand and using CAD software
- Attend site as required
- Co-ordination / management abilities to deal with several small projects or large multi-disciplined projects
- Design capability as pre-requisite for submission review and checking
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Still Interested, Does This Sound Like You?
- Significant experience in a design coordination role
- Computer literate with strong skills in Microsoft Office and other design-based software such as AutoCad and ProjectWise
- HND or Engineering Degree qualified
- Experience of undertaking or coordinating design within civil engineering
- Management skills – confident managing staff, clients, figures, issues and programmes.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel.
- Member of a recognised engineering institution. Incorporated Engineer or Chartered and or working towards membership.
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
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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 £5.8bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy
If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call James Hing on 07353 134946 to discuss in more detail.
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