IT Graduate

Murphy Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international engineering company is offering an exciting opportunity for graduates through their Graduate IT Programme in the United Kingdom. This position involves rotating through various IT departments, engaging in customer support, project delivery, and enhancing cybersecurity measures. Candidates should possess a degree in Information Technology and demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, and analytical skills. This role is a perfect blend of learning on the job and developing essential IT capabilities, driving a career forward in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Ownership of training and skill development

Opportunities for mobility within the UK

Supportive learning environment

Qualifications

• Must have a good understanding of information security best practices.
• Eager to learn about new IT systems and technologies.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service within IT operations.
• Collaborate with teams to support project delivery.
• Monitor and mitigate IT security risks and breaches.

Skills

Customer service

Project delivery

IT proficiency

Teamwork

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Information Technology degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Office Applications

D365

Success Factors

Job description

Rotational programme with the opportunity to experience different sectors and/or projects, for the duration of the 2-year programme

As an international business we also have opportunities available in Ireland.

About Us

Murphy is a leading international, multi-disciplined engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power and natural resources. We also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy employs more than 4,300 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. There’s more to Murphy.

Graduate Programme

We have an exciting opportunity to join our leading-edge Graduate programme for Information Technology Graduate – this role is for a person with passion for all elements of IT from customer support, through to back office server and network support, project management & delivery, People and Finance systems support and Cybersecurity.

This IT Graduate will play an important role in supporting key areas of the IT department that are undergoing an exciting change to make us more streamline, more strategic and aligned to the Murphy at 75 vision.

The role is suitable for someone with an interest in IT, future technology, customer service and project delivery, all to help both support the current Murphy business IT requirements but also to drive us forward in a continually changing and exciting environment. This will involve using a range of industry wide programmes and some bespoke applications; therefore, the candidate will need to be IT proficient as well as being eager to learn new systems and tasks. It is important they are organised, have excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

Since the role will be on rotation around the IT department these will be a mix of responsibilities from these rotations around the following teams; IT Service and Operations, Information Security, Infrastructure, Business Systems, IT Project Management and Data & Analytics.

• Provide excellent customer service.
• Collaborative working both within the IT department and wider business for items including supporting new service go lives and project delivery, actively supporting IT improvement programmes.
• Ensure IT Operations tickets are created for every task undertaken, are appropriately updated, escalated where necessary, completed & closed in line with SLA & Service Desk processes.
• Provide support for Site mobilisation, changes and demobilisation. Ensuring the required to setup IT equipment are consistent & to the required standard and delivered according to the set KPI.
• Monitor security alerts, logs, and events to identify potential threats or breaches.
• Collaborate with incident response teams to mitigate risks and minimize impact.
• Identify and prioritise vulnerabilities.
• Assess security risks and recommend appropriate controls.
• Work with stakeholders to implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Assist in remediation efforts to address security gaps.
• Assist in developing and implementing security policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Educate employees on security best practices.
• Provide operational assistance for IT Infrastructure services and all associated applications, hardware, software and security.
• Contribute to Information Security processes regarding all business technical infrastructure, ensuring that all infrastructure services are secure built and run in line with agreed best practice and company policies. This includes contributing to the ownership and resolution of any identified risks or incidents identified as part of security escalation processes.
• Working closely with the Technical Architect and PMO function – contributing to the ongoing planning, design, implementation, operation, maintenance and improvement of Murphy’s technology infrastructure within approved capital and operational expenditure budgets.
• Provide technical support and guidance to the IT Commercial and Operations teams in the design and delivery of technical infrastructure for projects through bid and mobilisation phases. Maintaining agreed technical blueprints to standardise project infrastructure delivery.
• Assist in delivery of business systems support including D365 and Success Factors including System configuration, Environmental Management and data analysis.
• Undertake assigned actions to deliver improvement project across the business systems portfolio working closely with IT Leads, Project managers and key business stakeholders.
• Own Small improvement projects and deliver value to the business enhancing business processes and IT capabilities.
• Delivery a customer focused service within the boundaries of IT best practices.
• Prioritising tasks as appropriate to business needs.
• Develop and maintain project plans, setting out key milestones with realistic dates.
• Assemble and coordinate project team resource.
• Ensure project interdependencies are identified.
• Identify, maintain and report on the project opportunity, risk, mitigation, issues and dependencies.
• Provide regular progress reporting updates.
• Comfortable handling and analysing data, whilst understanding business process and reporting requirements.
• Working closely with business reporting stakeholders to understanding reporting and analytical requirements to acquire and present relevant datasets.
• Verify the integrity of extracted data.
• Implement information security best practices in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company data.
• Awareness of, and support embedding and applying revised Data Governance and Information Security standards and best practices.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate documentation is produced.
• Work closely with the IT Project managers.
• Have a passion for Murphy’s Cabon Net Zero Targets
• Ability to work accurately and professionally
• Willingness to learn with appropriate instruction
• Ability to emphasise and communicate with all people regardless of their background
• Excellent organisation, communication and time manager skills
• Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK
• Driven and motivated looking to progress their career in environmental sustainability
• Some experience in the construction/civil engineering industry would be advantageous but not necessary
• Excellent data analysis skills and interrogation of data

Values

• One Family, One Team, One Murphy
• Always Deliver
• Respect, Integrity & Accountability
• Never Harm
• Continually Improve

Location

As a Construction and Civil Engineering company we have projects, big and small, based across the UK and Ireland. There is the opportunity for you to rotate around our IT department. Rotating to different part of IT will enable you to maximise your learning and exposure to your field of study

How will I learn?

In short, by grabbing every chance you get. Alongside working on some fascinating, challenging and occasionally jaw-dropping projects, you’ll also be part of our Murphy Learning programme, where everyone has ownership of their own training. You decide what skills you want to gain, with support and guidance from your manager. We call it the 70:20:10 principle, and it goes like this:

• 70% learning on the job, challenging yourself with new projects and responsibilities
• 20% learning through others, training and networking with senior managers, colleagues, and industry leaders
• 10% structured learning, choosing training courses that fit your needs and your team’s aims

Entry Requirements

Information Technology degree (or equivalent)

Additional Requirements

• Due to the nature of our work, we may require you to have a full clean driving licence
• Good time management & organisational skills
• Computer literate with strong skills in Microsoft Office Applications (Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint)
• Eligible to work in the UK with a valid work permit if applicable. Please note, that we do not provide sponsorship

Our recruitment process consists of three stages:

1. Application including a CV
2. Online interactive exercise
3. In-person assessment centre (which start from February 2026)

It’s important to us that everybody has an equal chance to succeed, therefore if you'd like to discuss any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please feel free to get in touch at [e-mail]

Please note: Should we receive a high volume of suitable applications we may choose to close our opportunities early. Therefore, to avoid missing out, we do recommend you submit your application asap.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.