Senior Site Engineer

Halkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom

4/10/2025

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Site Engineer to work with the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Project.

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 Senior Site Engineer:

• Act as the single point of contact for all Site Engineering works on the project, liaising with Site Management, Designers, Site Engineers and Clients
• Competent in the use of Surveying equipment such as Total Stations, GPS, level’s etc for setting out and as-built information
• Liaise with Permanent Words Designers to raise technical queries and undertake constructability reviews
• Act as the Temporary Works Co-Ordinator for the project, producing design briefs, undertaking constructability reviews of TW designs and ensuring TWS’ are undertaking inspections as required
• Produce quality documentation such as ITP’s that are in compliant with client specifications and relevant codes and standards
• Ensuring the engineering deliverables for on site works are completed in good time to allow works to progress in line with the programme
• Supervise, assist and mentor junior site engineers and help in their development as site engineers
• Carry out quality inspections in accordance with the Inspection and Test Plan in a timely manner recording relevant information.
• Ensure Engineering equipment is calibrated, in date and suitable checked in accordance with company policies and the manufacturers’ defined requirements.
• Undertake material take off’s from drawings, ensure all materials ordered to site are suitable, stored in line with manufacturer’s recommendations and meet contract specification or project requirements.
  
  

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience in Construction or Civil Engineering projects
• Experience within ITPs, Temporary Works, Red Line/As Built Drawings
• Excellent knowledge of current civil engineering legislation as well as Health & Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Ability and confidence to discuss engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines.
• Formal qualification in Engineering or Construction subjects
• 10 Years experience in a site based engineering role
  
  

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 £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Stephanie Fletcher on 07513 706 819 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