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 a Murphy People Business Partner 

• Provide fully generalist HR support to key functional areas on a day to day basis
• Supporting the business to fully understand their key business performance issues, objectives and drivers, and associated people requirements for both the current and future business challenges
• Support the wider People team and business on People Reward & Recognition activity
• Manage benefits administration for core and flexible benefits, including renewals, resolving issues, and ensuring successful maintenance of employee reward & recognition schemes
• Contribute to the selection and management of appropriate external benefits providers, to ensure service quality, relevance, and commercial value
• Proactively seek ways to improve our benefits offering to remain competitive within the wider industry
• Responsible for the management and coordination of benefits renewals and enrolment processes
• Manage and develop the Reward communications calendar, activity and intranet content
• Provide pay and grading support using our existing framework and assume responsibility for the maintenance of our job families
• Manage the Promotion and Market Adjustment Process
• Support end-to-end annual pay and bonus process
• Provide appropriate and informative analysis, as required by the wider People Team and the wider business

Still interested, does this sound like you? 

• Experience as a HR generalist supporting a monthly and weekly paid workforce
• Experience of working with reward and benefits data and reporting skills
• Qualified to at least CIPD Level 5
• Working knowledge of the following: recognition schemes| pension scheme types | insurance benefits e.g., private medical insurance, income protections insurance, and life assurance schemes, flexible benefits schemes, and benefits available, job design, compensation analysis and market data would be ideal
• Advanced Excel skills are essential (including Macro programming and pivot tables to enable quick and efficient data analysis)
• Able to develop positive working relationships across all levels of the organisation and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines