Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (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 and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power 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 3,600 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.
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A day in the life of an IT Project Manager
Develop and manage effective relationships with key customers and business stakeholders
Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and define project tasks and resource requirements
Develop and maintain full scale project plans, setting out key milestones with realistic dates, ensuring what is in and out scope for each project is clearly identified, signed off and recorded
Assemble project team resources, including external development partners and manage project resource allocation
Ensure interdependencies for each project are identified and that all those involved clearly understand their role, responsibilities and deliverables and how these will impact on delivering the project
Manage project budget and benefits realisation and track and provide quality assurance of all project deliverables
Manage external partner delivery to specifications and timescales
Conduct periodic project evaluations and implement improvements to achieve project objectives
Identify, maintain and report on the project opportunity, risk, mitigation, issues and dependencies
Monitor project performance indicators and key metrics, proactively addressing deviations from plan and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
Contribute to continuous improvement activities as part of the programme team and the wider IT team.
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Formal qualification in IT project management (ie APM, PRINCE2, Scrum)
Previous experience working as an IT Project Manager
Experience delivering business change projects
Exposure of delivering IT business system and infrastructure projects
A good working knowledge of Project Management tools eg. Project for the web, Jira, Microsoft Project Online