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Senior Planner
Senior Planner - Structures and Rail
Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner with a background in structures and rail to join our Transportation team on the Transpennine Route Upgrade (East) (TRUe).
With a proud history dating back to the 1960s, we provide practical, innovative results, working around the individual needs of our customers. Rail renewals to enhancements, bridge building, highways, ports, and emergency earthworks – our award-winning team has extensive experience and has been involved in projects that have changed the face of transport networks in three countries.
We dedicate ourselves to being ‘better engineered’ to ensure our transportation infrastructure solutions meet and exceed customer requirements, delivering value for money through innovation.
Role Details
The role will be based between our TRU delivery office in Leeds (LS9 0SG) and the site in Shipley, with occasional travel to additional delivery hubs in York and Sherburn-in-Elmet (LS25 6JE).
A Day in the Life of a Murphy Senior Civils Planner
- Collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks, and progress.
- Input into progress reporting, contribute insights, identify issues, and propose effective solutions.
- Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
- Contribute to the risk register and undertake schedule risk analysis.
- Work closely with other planners/sections to identify and plan critical interfaces.
- Input into collaborative planning and interface workshops.
- Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
- Carry out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
- Contribute to coaching, supporting, and formal training of others.
- Provide a link to communicate planning community information between all parties.
- 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.
- Assist with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
- Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and other indirect cost items.
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Requirements
- Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
- Major civils, construction, or depot build experience is essential.
- Railway experience is preferred, but not essential.
- Proven experience of first principles planning, with ability to create robust complex build schedules from design drawings.
- Use of planning software (P6, Microsoft Project) and a sound knowledge of NEC.
- 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.
- Must have a full driving licence.
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Benefits
- 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 the 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.
If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on 07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.
Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
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