Planning and Project Controls Manager

Murphy is recruiting for a Planning and Project Controls Manager to work with Energy initally based out of Kentish Town, with travel to project sites. 

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 Planning Manager

• Manage the planning team on a day-to-day basis
• Drive implementation and use of planning and project controls procedures and processes
• Line and/or functional management of planners, including management of external planning resources
• Develop capability across the team to deliver high quality standards and outputs
• Apply a consistent audit and review approach to ensure planning requirements are met, reduce non-compliance and improve project and business performance
• Manage the structured and controlled use of enterprise planning tools
• Contribute to the development of business unit and sector plans and strategies
• Review and apply client-specific requirements

Maintain effective working relationships with clients and project stakeholders (internal and external)

Ensure integrated, whole life programmes are developed from first principles in line with planning and work winning procedures

Contribute to business development activities to identify, pursue and secure projects

Ensure alignment with work winning governance processes in relation to planning outputs

Ensure tender programmes are critically reviewed to confirm that planning and scheduling are appropriate, contractually compliant, robust and deliverable

Ensure integrated, whole life programmes are developed and maintained from first principles in line with planning procedures and contract requirements

Ensure accurate and transparent reporting of progress, risks and issues related to the programme

Ensure programmes and associated reports are regularly updated and submitted to the client in line with contract requirements

Apply change control processes for identifying, notifying and quantifying time impacts relating to delay, disruption and change

Maintain alignment between Operations, Commercial and Planning teams to ensure consistent project information

Contribute to the identification, management and mitigation of project risks

Facilitate planning and project teams in resolving risks and issues

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience as a Planning and Project Controls Manager
• Experience managing a team of planners
• Contract and tender planning experience within a Tier 1 contractor
• Fully proficient in the use of P6 planning software
• Stakeholder management experience, including representing the organisation in client-facing planning and business performance meetings
• Experience in mentoring, coaching and professional development

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

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Natacha Rainford on 07876009588 to discuss in more detail. 

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