Murphy is a leading international specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951, delivering world‑class infrastructure across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and America. It specializes in pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges, and piling, employing around 4,000 engineers, managers, and skilled operatives worldwide.
Responsibilities
* Ensure that the scope of works is delivered safely, on time, to required quality standards, meeting acceptance criteria and achieving expected financial outcomes.
* Set the overall standard on the project/contract, ensuring consistency across projects and alignment with standards, policies and procedures.
* Build and develop the wider operational and project management team to develop management capability and deliver all aspects of the project/contract requirements.
* Line‑manage Project Managers accountable for operational delivery, chair regular project team meetings and ensure actions are recorded and closed out.
* Manage the "fit‑to‑start" process to mobilise in a controlled and timely manner, facilitating timely delivery of the project scope and ensuring an effective, comprehensive, and formal handover from the work‑winning team to the delivery team.
* Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the client and other project stakeholders.
* Lead the development of a detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly.
* Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
* Support the procurement of suppliers and sub‑contractors.
* Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved or improved.
* Lead the development and implementation of tender strategy / win themes.
Qualifications
* Experience delivering HV transmission projects within 132kV to 400kV or major civil projects.
* Experience in a Project Director or Senior Managerial role.
* HNC/HND qualification.
* Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
* Experience working on complex multi‑discipline enhancement projects, delivering within programme and cost controls.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors.
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