Project Director
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £70000-150000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | London, NW5 1TN |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 9 Nov 2026 |
| Closing date: | 7 Dec 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 Project Director
- Take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of frameworks and major enhancement projects, ensuring that framework programmes, individual projects and associated work packages are delivered safely, on time, to the required quality standards, meeting acceptance criteria and achieving the expected financial outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of the Business Unit’s strategy and direction, bringing delivery, client and market insight to inform business priorities, growth opportunities and future capability requirements.
- Set the overall standards across frameworks and major enhancement projects, ensuring consistent delivery across projects and work packages in line with company standards, policies, procedures and client requirements.
- Build and develop the wider operational and project management team to strengthen management capability and deliver all aspects of framework and major enhancement project requirements, supporting continuity of delivery across multiple concurrent projects and work packages.
- Line manage Project Managers accountable for operational delivery across frameworks and major enhancement projects, chairing regular framework and project team meetings, coordinating priorities and ensuring actions are recorded and closed out.
- Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure controlled and timely mobilisation of frameworks, major enhancement projects and individual work packages, aligning delivery readiness with client priorities and programme commitments.
- Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other framework and project stakeholders, aligning delivery with client objectives and supporting long-term relationships across the framework or project lifecycle.
- Lead the development of detailed cost forecasts for frameworks and major enhancement projects, ensuring regular review and updates at framework, project and work package level, with clear visibility of overall financial performance.
- Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), aligning and coordinating resources with framework workbanks and major enhancement project programmes, balancing demand across concurrent work packages and maintaining delivery continuity.
- Lead work winning opportunities for frameworks and major enhancement projects, developing and implementing tender strategies and compelling win themes. Proactively establish, develop and grow relationships with prospective clients to understand their future needs and build a sustainable pipeline of opportunities.
- Take overall responsibility for the quality of the bid, ensuring a coordinated, compliant and compelling submission that reflects client priorities, demonstrates a credible delivery approach and is supported by robust technical, commercial and operational input.
- Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive, and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team.
- Support the procurement of suppliers and sub-contractors.
- Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- Extensive experience in the successful delivery of rail or major civil engineering frameworks and/or complex, large-scale major enhancement projects, including oversight of multiple projects and work packages.
- Experience of delivering complex, multi-discipline frameworks and/or major enhancement projects within programme and cost controls, coordinating workbanks, resources and interfaces across multiple concurrent work packages.
- Experience within a Project Director or Senior Managerial role.
- Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors.
- Professionally qualified construction representative
- member of a professional body.
- Demonstrable experience leading building projects
- Project management methodology knowledge essential.
- Able to develop positive working relationships across all levels of the organisation.
- Proven ability to lead teams and coach on performance
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