Posted 17 June, 2026
Senior Planner | Water
Murphy
Kildare, Ireland
Full Time
Reference: 189621813
Kildare
Country/Region: Ireland
Murphy is recruiting a Senior Planner to support our expanding Water & Wastewater portfolio, delivering full design-to-operation solutions for Uisce Éireann, Northern Ireland Water and other key clients, underpinned by our commitment to delivering safely, responsibly and to the highest standards.
What you will be doing:
Who we are looking for:
Country/Region: Ireland
Murphy is recruiting a Senior Planner to support our expanding Water & Wastewater portfolio, delivering full design-to-operation solutions for Uisce Éireann, Northern Ireland Water and other key clients, underpinned by our commitment to delivering safely, responsibly and to the highest standards.
What you will be doing:
- Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.
- Assimilate information and summarise it in a manner that can be used to communicate the work scope to others.
- 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 support of planned methods.
- Prepare resource schedules for use at review.
- Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
- Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
- Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
- Contribute the required written submission material.
- Attend the bid review meeting and handover meetings to contribute a clear view of the work scope and the intentions for delivering it by reference to prepared material and accept further defined tasks.
- In consultation with Estimator advise project team of required feedback reports and support.
Who we are looking for:
- Relevant Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of Planning and Project Controls experience within the Construction and Engineering industry
- Extensive experience of civil engineering contracting within the Water Industry
- Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in serving both tendering and contract delivery.
- A clear understanding of the commercial and contractual interfaces with the planning function.
- Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft packages, including Microsoft Project.