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Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, 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 Senior Project Manager
- Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
- To be fully accountable for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
- Refer significant / strategic issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
- Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities. Develop and implement action plans to mitigate / reduce the impact of risks, and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities
- Ensure that the project team works to progressively complete handover documentation so that we are “fit to finish”, complying with the contracted completion requirements of the Client.
- Manage and resolve any actual or potential conflicts with the Client or project stakeholders.
- Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and agree the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
- To ensure the programme is updated regularly to enable identification of change and early warning of any potential issues and causes for concern.
- Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern.
- Ensure output and productivity measurement is in place for key activities / trades.
- Lead the regular review of actual costs identifying any variances to the budget. Ensuring issues are identified and actions implemented to respond in an effective and timely manner.
- Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
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Skills Required
- Strong leadership and team management abilities, with the capacity to motivate and inspire a diverse team.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to effectively address challenges and make sound judgments.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders.
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- Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (SMSTS / NEBOSH / SEATS).
- 10+ yrs in the project management of a civil engineering project.
- Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works. and competent in the administration of construction contracts.
- Expertise in the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
- Experience in delivering Major Civils projects.
- Experience within a Senior Project Managerial role.
- HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree)
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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, Gold 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.
Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
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