Fleetwood Site

Country/Region: United Kingdom

Murphy is recruiting for a Construction Manager to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, as part of the AMP8 programme.

Murphy is a long-standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water, Bristol Water, South East Water, and Uisce Éireann, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.

A day in the life of a Murphy Construction Manager

• Experience of a multi-Utility package
• Overall management of project teams during the construction and installation phase of the project.
• Co-ordination of constructability input during solutions identification and development phase.
• Co-ordination and allocation of construction staff to projects ensuring that appropriate construction and installation staff are appointed to individual projects: based on experience, skills and knowledge.
• Liaises with the Project Manager/Senior Site Manager to ensure that the construction resource pool is an appropriate size, with an appropriate blend of skill-sets for the projected workload.
• Overall management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials.
• Overall performance management of subcontractors.
• Ensures that the construction and installation teams are accountable for their performance against agreed schedules and man-hour budgets.
• Ensures that all construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety Legislation.
• Ensures that the duties of the Principal Contractor are discharged in accordance with the CDM Regulations.
• Ensures that all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with agreed quality procedures.
• Interfaces with all other functional leaders within the organisation to facilitate successful development of the project from solution stage constructability through construction, installation, commissioning and handover to the client.
• Ensure regular input from the Project Manager is gained on third party, environmental and public relations issues.
• Participate in, and positively promote, the Murphy Culture Development Culture (leading to Zero Harm)

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Successful experience as a Construction Manager for a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor
• Previous experience on a water/wastewater/utilities/pipelines project
• Shafts, trenchless/tunnelling and pipeline experience desirable, but not essential
• Proven ability to lead teams and performance manage
• IT literate: Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams etc
• Experience in managing materials including liaising with the commercial team to ensure the right materials are ordered and delivered