Senior Planner | Transport

Overview

As Senior Planner in Murphy’s Transport team, you will develop and communicate robust project plans that align with company standards and drive successful delivery. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to shape scope, schedules, and risk responses for large-scale civil and rail projects. Your planning leadership will support tendering, bid execution, and handover activities, enabling safe, on-time project outcomes. This role offers the chance to influence energy infrastructure across multiple countries within a culture that values innovation and sustainability.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary & Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Generous private Healthcare allowance
• Retail discounts, cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Establish health, safety and environmental best practices with SHQE
• Consolidate information to communicate work scope clearly
• Prepare resourced programmes and check conformance with requirements
• Contribute to the risk register and perform risk analysis of programmes
• Create visual material to support planned methods
• Develop resource schedules for reviews
• Coach and train colleagues and support knowledge transfer
• Draw up bid preparation programme and maintain tender queries database
• Define methods and establish competitive outputs with estimator and supply chain
• Prepare written submission materials and participate in bid reviews
• Attend handover meetings to clarify work scope and deliverables
• Advise project team on required feedback reports in consultation with Estimator

Key requirements

• Relevant Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of Planning and Project Controls experience in Construction and Engineering
• Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting in rail and civil sectors
• Experience with planning techniques for tendering and contract delivery
• Understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with planning
• Computer literate with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project skills

• Collaborative mindset
• Strong communication and presentation abilities
• Analytical and proactive problem solving
• Primavera P6
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Office suite

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