Risk Management Specialist

5 days ago


Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time
Turner & Townsend Job Description

At Turner & Townsend, we're passionate about delivering better outcomes for our clients and helping our people realize their potential.

We help major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture.

As a Risk Manager, you will be an integral part of our Project Controls Team, undertaking duties on high-profile infrastructure projects across various sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate identification, assessment, and prioritization of threats, opportunities, and issues.
  • Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget, or retirement of threat/opportunity.
  • Assist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses, measurable and specific, along with assessing the post-mitigated positions.
  • Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timeline.
  • Produce and present fit-for-purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.
  • Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule, and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA, or similar.
  • Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.

Required Qualifications:

  • A working understanding of developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes, and projects.
  • Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitation.
  • Development of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation.
  • Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk, including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA, or equivalent). Training will be provided.
  • Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions.

We are looking for individuals with experience in risk delivery roles on major projects/programmes or blue-chip clients. Project experience within energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities will be an advantage.

Attainment or working towards IRM/APM risk certification is preferred. Candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to developing new and more effective ways of working.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encouraging applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at Turner & Townsend website.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, adhered to where applicable.



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