Senior Engineer

Murphy is seeking a Senior Engineer for New Connections and Generation to join their team in Kentish Town, UK. This full-time role involves managing new connections, capacity increases, and generation applications while ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in utilities design, particularly in electrical, gas, and water distribution, alongside strong communication skills. Benefits include 27 days of holiday, a contributory pension scheme, and professional development opportunities. Murphy prides itself on its diverse workforce and commitment to sustainability and quality service.

Job Description
Job Title: Senior Engineer
Job Location: Kentish Town
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Senior Engineer – New Connections And Generation based form any Murphy office location.
MUA Group is an independent electricity and gas distribution network operator, connecting homes and businesses to essential energy infrastructure. We’re also a regulated water and wastewater company, adopting water and wastewater networks across Britain.
Our mission at MUA is to help build better and more sustainable places to live and work, by adopting and operating multi-utility networks nationwide.
Murphy iDNO/iGT/NAV business is looking to expand their team with a permanent full-time Senior Engineer – New Connections And Generation appointment.
This role predominantly involves New connections, Capacity increase and Generations management, Asset Management, technical standards management and Design approvals, alongside other administrative duties relating to Utilities network distribution management system, enabling the effective and timely processing of ICP design approvals, capacity increase, POC and CSEP new connections applications, Generation applications and asset management.
A day in the life of a Murphy Engineer

• Where required meet clients (ICPs/Developers/Customers) to discuss requirements and agree how the works can be undertaken ensuring relevant engineering standards policies are adhered to.
• Manage the New connections and Design approvals and projects acceptance process, ensuring new connections and projects designs are approved and delivered on time, ensuring approvals are returned issuing queries and rejections within a timely manner, in line with the company SLAs.
• Managing HV/LV design for complex and large developments, attend all associated meeting leading all technical and design standards with key clients and stakeholders.
• Review customer requirements and provide a broad range of design services based on the customer scope of works and the location of the site.
• Fully managing the new (Point of connection) applications, Process, and Complete the POC and CSEP quotations offers to the iDNO and iGT network to external parties, customers and DNOs, supporting all capacity increase and decrease requests and reinforcement cost.
• Assess with complex Generation applications G98/99 and G100 applications and respond customers within agreed time scale.
• Responsible for ensuring that the service delivered by the business is in line fully with the requirements of the Electricity Act, Gas Board,
• NAV regulatory, Distribution Licence and industry codes and agreements.
• Ensure robust processes are in place to document regulatory accountabilities and ensure accountable managers discharge those accountabilities.
• Manage the governance of the distribution licence together with their associated documents such as Data Assurance Guidance and Regulatory Instructions and Guidance,
• Advise and support SHESQ Management team to discharge their Health & Safety & Quality responsibilities towards ICPs as defined by the network procedures.
• Carry out site quality auditing and inspections in accordance with the Company procedure and, analysing all data, making recommendations to avoid any reoccurrences.
• Support on standby and out of hours coverage of Gas and Electricity faults and emergencies.

Still interested, does this sound like you ?

• Must have experience working within utilities electrical and gas design environment.
• Candidates must demonstrably work knowledge of electrical as must, and preferably Gas and Water distribution network design and construction standards.
• Suitable candidates should also have good working knowledge of the CDM regulations and the role of principal designer as well as demonstrating excellent communication skills on a day-to-day basis.
• Experience in Utilities engineering, construction, Gas, Water and Electrical would be advantageous
• Understanding of faults, emergency, Non-Conformance reporting with Root Cause Analysis Knowledge, Inspection & Test Plans & Quality Plans
• General knowledge of Standard ICP Gas, Water, or Electricity construction.
• General knowledge of network operation and maintenance.
• Engineering, H&S relevant competency qualification to City & Guilds level required.
• MS package knowledge.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 etc

About Murphy
Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy
If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on to discuss in more detail.
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