Senior Engineer
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40000-75000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Cannock, WS11 7AF |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 24 Jul 2026 |
| Closing date: | 21 Aug 2026 |
Summary
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, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
A day in the life of a Murphy Engineer
- Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHES department.
- Agree technical requirements with client, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary.
- Undertake site visits and inspections when appropriate.
- Prioritise and monitor the day-to-day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team and Key Equipment Suppliers.
- Oversee key vendor packages and contribute to the timely production of design deliverables.
- Manage the interface between key vendor packages and the design team.
- Identify and assess the technical opportunities for value engineering
- Provide project reports to Engineering Manager as required, including financial and programme progress and forecasts and early warnings on issues.
- Ensure that design work undertaken is carried out in accordance with applicable legal requirements and company procedures and that a high level of professionalism is maintained.
- Manage key vendor detailed designs in accordance with current standards and codes including calculations, design risk assessments and sufficiently detailed sketches for the preparation of working drawings.
- Provide a technical assessment and review of 3rd Party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Murphy requirements.
- Check the design work of other staff members and external designers
- Provide advice and guidance on design issues.
- Resolution of technical project design issues, incidents, defects and failures, incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign.
- Maintain responsibility for the storage, filing and archiving of documents relevant to design tasks.
- Manage the financial and commercial aspects of the project with the support of Engineering Manager, monitoring progress against, and ensuring the project is delivered to, agreed programme and budget.
- Administration and monitoring of design change.
Still interested does this sound like you?
- IEng/CEng
- Experience in large civil engineering projects.
- Experience within Oil or Gas, Substations or Linear Cables.
- Ability and confidence to communicate and present to Top Level Management, Senior level clients and public.
- Excellent knowledge of current civil engineering legislation as well as Health & Safety and Environmental legislation.
- Ability and confidence to discuss engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines.
- Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures