Senior Project Risk Manager | Defence & Infrastructure

Turner-; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Risk Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide, Australia. The role supports a nationally significant infrastructure program and focuses on risk and opportunity assessment, ownership, and reporting.

You will lead quantitative risk analyses, develop risk dashboards, and collaborate with PCON and precinct delivery teams to ensure robust risk governance and mitigation across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Australian Citizenship and capable of obtaining Australian Baseline Security Clearance or UK clearance.
• Minimum 4 years of risk management experience at a senior level.
• Strong analytical and commercial acumen with high accuracy.
• Experience using risk tools such as Active Risk Manager, Cura, @Risk, Acumen Fuse, Safran and Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Identify and own risks and opportunities within the precinct teams with clear ownership and mitigations.
• Conduct QRAs to inform contingency levels and support decision making with scenario modelling.
• Develop risk dashboards, reports and presentations for stakeholders.
• Model cash flows, escalation impacts and track risk against the remaining budget.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate risk insights into broader planning and ensure compliance with risk standards.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Data visualization

Commercial awareness

Tools

Active Risk Manager

Cura

@Risk

Acumen Fuse

Safran

Primavera Risk Analysis

Job description

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

We are looking for a Senior Project Risk Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide. This role supports a critical infrastructure program as part of a nationally significant endeavour and will play a critical part in the risk assessment function.

The primary purpose of this role is to form part of a project controls precinct team, ensuring that all elements of risk and opportunities in the precinct packages are identified, assigned ownership, analysed and reported, with mitigations/controls/actions captured for implementation. The Risk Manager will coordinate and work with the PCON team and the relevant Precinct delivery teams to collate all QRA inputs.

As a Project Risk Manager, your role will cover:

• Risk Identification & Ownership:Work closely with the project controls precinct team to ensure all risks and opportunities are identified, assigned, and tracked with clear ownership and mitigation strategies.
• Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA):Conduct QRAs to inform contingency levels, validate inputs, and monitor risk exposure. Provide scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to support decision making.
• Reporting & Communication:Develop and present risk dashboards, reports, and presentations to communicate QRA outcomes and highlight key insights to stakeholders.
• Financial Risk Modelling:Model cash flows over time, assess escalation impacts, and track risk exposure against the remaining risk budget.
• Collaboration & Compliance:Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate risk insights into broader project planning, ensuring alignment with corporate risk standards and procedures.

Qualifications

• Citizenship & Clearance: Australian Citizenship and the ability to obtain (or currently hold) an Australian Baseline Security ClearanceORbe a UKCitizen with current UK clearance.
• Risk Management Experience:At least 4 years of experience in risk management, with demonstrated capability at a senior level.
• Analytical and Commerical Acumen:Strong quantitative skills and commercial awareness, with a high level of accuracy.
• Technical Proficiency:Experience using risk tools such as Active Risk Manager, Cura, @Risk, Acumen Fuse, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Data Visualisation Skills:Familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.

Personal Attributes:

• Collaborative Mindset:Comfortable working as part of a geographically dispersed team, including remote collaboration with client and site teams.
• Relationship-Orientated: Friendly, approachable, and relationship focused.
• Clear Communicator:Able to present complex data and insights in a clear, engaging manner.

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.