Overview
As Planning Manager you will establish and maintain realistic delivery schedules for the TRUe programme, guiding large-scale rail and civil projects. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and subcontractors to map dependencies, risks, and change, while providing clear progress reporting to stakeholders. You’ll contribute to risk analysis, change notifications, and drive best planning practices to support on-time delivery. This role sits at the heart of Murphy’s transportation capability, combining engineering delivery with proactive planning to deliver value for money through innovation. You will work across Leeds, Shipley and other hubs, with travel to project sites as needed,,
Pay / Benefits
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays
- discretionary annual bonus
- above market rate pension
- life assurance
- health screening
- enhanced maternity/paternity pay
Responsibilities
- Develop and revise the delivery programme with cross-disciplinary teams and subcontractors
- Establish and maintain periodic progress reporting and flag risks/issues
- Inform and align key stakeholders across disciplines and organization
- Contribute to the risk register and schedule risk analysis
- Identify and plan critical dependencies with other planners/sections
- Lead collaborative planning and interface workshops
- Promote Planning function and drive project performance with peers
- Coach and train others in planning practices and standards
Key requirements
- Extensive experience in Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects, ideally with a Tier 1 contractor
- Strong knowledge of NEC contracts, especially Clauses 31 & 32 and related commercial interfaces
- Desirable: full project lifecycle experience (design & build) in large-scale rail & structure projects
- Proficiency with Primavera P6 planning software
- Full driving licence
- Based in Leeds with travel to York and Shipley sites
- Effective communicator
- Relationship-building in multi-discipline teams
- Problem-solving and succinct issue articulation
- Primavera P6
- NEC contract knowledge
- Schedule risk analysis
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