Senior Office Manager

Job Description

Company description:J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure.Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businessesGround Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services.We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as One Murphy by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.Theres more to Murphy.Job description:Senior Office ManagerSouth (Project Support)The Senior Office Manager, has responsibility for the operational delivery of key finance process and administrative activities (processing, reporting and compliance) that supports Project Managers with Murphy.This role will be required to spend approx. 80% of time at Project Site locations.Recently awarded the 3rd Best Big Company in the UK to work for by Best Companies this is a fantastic time to join J. Murphy & Sons! Take a look at the role outline and if you think you fit the bill, and want to work as a Construction Office Manager/ Cost Managerwithin a team that rewards performance, drives personal development and offers a great place to work delivering exciting projects, then get in touch!What you will be doing

• Be responsible for the management of approx.10 Project Support direct reports.
• The team members will be dispersed across large project sites and will have a reporting line into this role.
• Maintaining key site-based relationships with the site teams.
• The onboarding of new Project Support staff at new Project sites and developing the team members within the team structureensuring that standard Project Support practices are carried out.
• Visit new sites to set up the Project Support role for the first one or two weeks of the project, for a permanent resource to then deliver on a day to day basis
• Making the appropriate interventions (e.g. highlighting lack of process compliance) upon collecting/reviewing metrics to support SLA reporting and team performance monitoring
• Support the direct reports in providing a standard service supporting PMs with the ordering of materials, labour and plant , reporting therein and site based administrative duties such as site inductions, PPE register, HSE standard
• Ensuring the team is staffed with the appropriate skills and levels of staff to meet the demands of the business and volumes of transactions
• Selects and hires employees for the team

Who we are looking for

• Experience working in a construction industry/ site experience, managing staff in a process organised team, ideally in the purchase to pay process and/or broad business administration.
• Experienced relationship manager or team leader experience
• Presentation skills and strong analytical skills
• Construction Industry Training e.g. Project Controls, Basic Finance, Basic Payroll
• Happy to travel and spend majority of time on site