Senior Planner | Transport

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Planner | Transport to work with our Transportation & Infrastructure team in either Kildare or Dublin.

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.

Main purpose of the role:

• To prepare and articulate competent plans for any scale of project that comply with Company and functional procedures and standards and contribute to business success.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.


• 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.


• Prepare resource schedules for use at review.


• Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.


• Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.


• Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.


• Contribute the required written submission material.


• 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 accept further defined tasks.


• In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Relevant Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent


• Minimum 5 years of Planning and Project Controls experience within the Construction and Engineering industry


• Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting within the rail and civil engineering sector


• 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.


• Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project.

What Murphy offers in return:

• 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


• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts, cycle to work scheme etc.

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages.

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Jason Reddin on 087 271 1219 to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in Ireland.