Planner
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33000-60000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Alness, IV17 0PH |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 14 Sept 2026 |
| Closing date: | 12 Oct 2026 |
Summary
Murphy is recruiting for a Planner to work with the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Framework.
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.
A day in the life of a Murphy Planner
- 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 aid of planned methods.
- Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
- Provide a link between all parties regarding the planning community information
- 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.
- In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Experience within Civil Engineering / Construction preferably within Water but not essential
- Use of planning software (P6, TILOS, QSRA).
- Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
- Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project and P6