Sustainability Manager

Alness, Scotland, United Kingdom

4/10/2025

Murphy is recruiting for a Sustainability Manager to work with the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Framework.

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 Sustainability Manager:

• Identify and mitigate sustainability risks associated with project execution, ensuring compliance with legal and environmental standards.
• Support proactive measures to reduce the environmental footprint of project activities, including resource efficiency, biodiversity and carbon reduction initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with all sustainability obligations outlined in the project framework.
• Oversee sustainability reporting requirements, ensuring accurate and timely data submission through Murphy’s and the employer’s reporting systems.
• Attend and contribute to sustainability and carbon progress meetings, providing insights and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a Carbon Management Plan with reduction targets and performance tracking.
• Ensure alignment with PAS 2080:2023 Carbon Management in Infrastructure, including: Identifying and implementing carbon mitigation measures, Reporting carbon savings (tCO2e) from strategies and prioritising actions based on the Carbon Reduction Hierarchy.
• Promote the use of low-carbon materials for embodied carbon content and promote the use of materials and processes with maximum recycled content.
• Provide insights on carbon emissions reductions, material efficiency, and waste minimisation
• Work closely with the project delivery team to align sustainability initiatives with project timelines.
  
  

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience in sustainability management within infrastructure or construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of carbon management and sustainability best practices.
• Experience in developing and implementing sustainability strategies and carbon reduction plans.
• Membership with relevant professional bodies such as IEMA
• Familiarity with NEC contracts and CDM related to environmental and sustainability compliance.
  
  

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

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Jack Roberts on 07514 313533 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