Project Manager at J. Murphy & Sons Ltd, Cambridge

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 LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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A day in the life of a Murphy Project Manager

• To be fully ownership for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• Ensure works are planned, managed and delivered in a safe, controlled and environmentally sustainable manner.
• Ensure risk assessments are created, in place and reviewed regularly. 
• Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations
• Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of works.
• Manage the project team, providing guidance and direction and assist their professional development.
• Chair regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out.
• Ensure the project requirements are identified, understood and delivered and key issues are resolved and controlled.
• Refer any significant issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope. 
• Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive and formal handover from the team to the delivery team.
• Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects assisted by PSCDevelop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external). 
• Ensure the requirements of the contract are complied to by the project team and administered and discharged appropriately.
• Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and concur the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• Ensure detailed records and allocation sheets are maintained for all aspects of the project.
• Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
• Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• Leading the review of the project CRF on a monthly basis.
• Ensuring the project performance is reported in a transparent and accurate manner
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• Assist the procurement of suppliers and sub-contractors.
  
  

Who we are looking for

• Experience in high profile, politically delicate railway enhancement projects with a focus on bridges and structures
• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. PTS).
• Experience in the project and construction management of an engineering project, integrating multi-disciplinary workstreams from multiple contractors.
• Client and stakeholder management and management of a project team
• Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• Commercial awareness and experience of planning  programming
• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• Professionally qualified or working towards.
• Driven forward-thinker who flourishes on finding innovative solutions to delivery challenges