Framework Planning Manager

Position: Framework Planning Manager (Permanent)
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 (url removed) or follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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Murphy is recruiting for a Framework Planning Manager to work with the Energy Team on the National Grid, ETP 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 Framework Planning Manager:

Accountable for ensuring that integrated, whole life programmes are prepared from first principles in accordance with the Planning and Work Winning procedures.
Endure tender programmes are critically analysed to ensure that the planning and scheduling that underpins them is appropriate, contract / procedurally compliant, robust, and achievable.
Accountable for ensuring that integrated, whole life programmes are prepared and maintained from first principles in accordance with the Planning procedure and Contract requirements.
Critically analyse the performance of projects to identify areas of concern, providing guidance to the business on measures to improve performance.
Lead roll out and adoption of planning & project controls procedures and processes.
Organise resources within their portfolio to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.
Adopt a rigorous and proactive regime of audit and review to ensure planning requirements are adopted, minimise non-compliance, drive high standards and ultimately improve project / business performance.
Understand client specific requirements and ensure these are catered for.
Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders.
Manage the effective and efficient allocation of resources to projects and tenders.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

Experience managing a small team of planners.
Experience in contract and tender planning for a Tier 1 contractor.

Experience with in planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA)
Degree educated, preferably in a Construction / Engineering discipline.
Ideally degree educated, preferably in a Construction / Engineering discipline
Chartered Engineer, CIOB, APM or equivalent or working towards

What’s in it for you?

27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each…