Risk Management Specialist

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Overview

At Turner & Townsend, we're passionate about delivering better outcomes for our clients and helping our people realize their potential. Our team is dedicated to creating a prosperous society through our work.

We help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects across over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Summary

We're currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Manchester office. As a Risk Manager, you'll be an integral member of the team, undertaking duties on high-profile infrastructure projects across the energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities sector.

Key Responsibilities

  • Facilitate the 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, which are 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.

Requirements

  • 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). However, industry-leading training will be provided.
  • Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions.

It's essential that you have experience in a risk delivery role 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 certified candidates 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.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this, we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at #LI-FL1.

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

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.



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