J Murphy & Sons

Senior Planner

London NW5 1TN

Key information

Pay
£50000-85000 per annum
Hours
Full-time
Contract
Permanent
Posted date
20 Aug 2026
Closing date
17 Sep 2026

About this role

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 www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook,

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A day in the life of a

Murphy Senior Planner

  • Assimilate information and summarise it in a manner that can be used to communicate the work scope to others.
  • Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
  • Contribute to the risk register and undertake programme risk analysis.
  • Prepare visual material in support of planned methods.
  • Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
  • Define methods and establish outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
  • Liaise with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
  • Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and other indirect cost items.
  • Attend the bid review meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material.
  • Attending the handover meeting to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material and clear further defined tasks.
  • In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

  • Experience on Major Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
  • Experience working on HV Power, Transmission & Distribution Projects
  • Use of planning software (P6, Asta, TILOS, QSRA).
  • Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
  • A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.