Murphy Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water.
Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:
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A day in the life of a Murphy Design Manager
- Produce design briefs for permanent works
- Ensure consultants are appointed appropriately
- Lead technical reviews of submissions from our design partners
- Ensure conformance to the Murphy Design Management procedure
- Lead design matters on small/medium/large/mega sized project/s as directed
- Allocate design tasks to individuals/companies as required and maintain associated RACI
- Manage day to day interface between design and construction teams and maintain its adequate records
- Review design progress according to programme and contractual requirements
- Lead constructability reviews
- Involvement in work winning to ensure consultants and engaged appropriately and adequate allowances are included in the bid
- Assist Senior Design Managers, consultants and multi-discipline engineering teams to deliver the design solutions to schedule and budget to a high standard of professional competence
- Management of design change to support best outcome for the project
- Support with management of risk and opportunity in design
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Significant experience in a design management role within the construction sector.
- Management skills – confident in managing staff, clients, design budgets and programmes
- Flexibility and willingness to travel
- HND or Engineering Degree qualified
- Member of a recognised engineering institution. Incorporated Engineer or Chartered and or working towards membership