Work Winning Lead

Murphy is recruiting for a Work Winning Lead to work with our Energy and Industry team in Dublin or Newry.

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.

Our Work Winning Engineering Lead will provide senior technical leadership to the Work Winning and Pre‑Construction team across Energy and Industry projects, ensuring high‑quality, compliant and competitive tenders and robust project input through handover. The role will integrate design input, construction methodology, risk and opportunity management to improve win rates and assure safe, efficient delivery.

What you will be doing:

• Lead the engineering strategy for bids: define technical approach, construction methodology, programme sequence, and temporary works strategy.


• Own the technical compliance matrix, produce method statements, technical submissions, and delivery stage plans (e.g., constructability reviews, sequencing, access and logistics).


• Challenge solutions to optimise safety, quality, sustainability, and whole‑life cost


• Drive value engineering.


• Identify and manage risks and opportunities


• Engineering inputs to cost and programme


• Lead technical presentations and site visits


• Ensure bids meet relevant standards, codes and regulatory requirements


• Assist design development post‑award through a structured technical handover to delivery teams; support mobilisation and early works as required.


• Promote digital engineering and information management and accurate document control throughout the bid lifecycle.


• Coach and develop engineers within the work winning function; share lessons learned and maintain a library of best‑practice method statements and case studies.

Who we are looking for:

• Minimum 10 years’ site/project experience in civil engineering and/or power sector delivery, including significant time in construction on live projects.


• Proven pre‑construction/tendering experience for major projects


• Track record of developing construction methodologies, build‑ability reviews, temporary works strategies, and technical submissions that win work.


• Strong grasp of contracts and procurement in the sector (e.g., NEC, FIDIC) and of estimating/programming interfaces (P6/MS Project, CESMM/BoQ).


• Excellent knowledge of Ireland standards, design codes and safety by design (CDM) principles; able to author technical and HSEQ documentation.

What you will get in return

•  27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service


• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review


• Above market rate contributory pension scheme


• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay


• Generous Private Healthcare Allowance


• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus


• Extra 2 days holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus


• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development


• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts, discounted gym memberships, 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 Sarah Barrett on 0873422094 to discuss in more detail.

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