Project Director

About This Role

This Project Director role focuses on delivering the National Grid, Yorkshire Green Project, working with the Energy Team. The position is for a leader who can ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, to quality standards, and within financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the scope of works is delivered in a safe manner, on time, to the required quality standards, meeting the acceptance criteria and achieving the expected financial outcomes
• Set the overall standard on the project/contract, ensuring consistency across projects and in line with standards policies and procedures
• Build and develop the wider operational and project management team to build management capability and deliver all aspects of the project/contract requirements
• Line manage Project Managers who are accountable for the operational delivery of the project, chairing regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out
• Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure mobilization is controlled and timely to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope
• Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive, and formal handover from the work winning team to the delivery team
• Develop and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders
• Produce detailed cost forecast for the project, ensuring it is reviewed and updated regularly
• Oversee resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme
• 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

Requirements

• Experience in delivering HV Transmission projects within 132kV to 400kV or major civil projects
• Experience within a Project Director or Senior Managerial role
• HNC / HND
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness
• Experience of working on complex multi-discipline Enhancement projects, delivering within programme and cost controls
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to develop close working relationships with clients and subcontractors

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year; holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme

Important Details

• Due to the requirements of the role, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check

About the Company

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited, with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. The company is proud of its diverse workforce, representing over 60 different nationalities, backgrounds, ethnicities, and ages. Murphy has a forward order book of £5.4bn and invested £23m in environmentally friendly plant in 2024.