Infrastructure Risk & Opportunity Lead

BAM UK & Ireland; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Family-friendly policies

Company car/travel allowance

Pension contributions (8% match)

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days

Volunteering day

Professional development

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland, in partnership with Ferrovial Construction, seeks a Risk Manager to lead identification, assessment and reporting of risks and opportunities across the HRS15 Track North project. Based in Snow Hill, Birmingham, you will drive integrated risk management, governance, and informed decision-making for this major infrastructure programme.

You will coordinate risk workshops, maintain risk registers, and ensure alignment with contractual procedures and forecasts, while engaging with

Qualifications

• Substantial risk-management experience on major infrastructure or complex construction projects.
• Experience with QSRA and QCRA processes and risk workshops.
• Practical experience with probabilistic risk modelling and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Strong understanding of programme risk, critical path analysis and schedule contingency.
• Experience working with Primavera P6 schedules; direct operation is advantageous.
• Ability to integrate risk with cost forecasting, EAC, change management and reporting.
• Experience engaging with clients, auditors and senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills and clear written/verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and implement the HRS15 Risk and Opportunity Management process per procedures.
• Promote proactive risk management across multiple functions and stakeholders.
• Maintain links between risk register and related notices, changes and programme activities.
• Ensure realised risks remain actively managed until exposure and consequences are resolved.
• Capture lessons learned to improve future risk identification and mitigation.
• Lead or support monthly risk-review meetings with HS2 and manage actions.
• Maintain HS2 risk-management templates and systems under contract.
• Prepare, update and obtain internal approval of PMU4.
• Reconcile PMU4 with PMU2, PMU8 and project forecasts.
• Address improvement areas and ensure consistent reporting across PMU2/4/8.
• Lead QSRA and QCRA at required frequencies and cycles.
• Maintain FBJV Risk and Opportunity Register and input to forecasts.
• Coordinate reviews of risk-adjusted EAC with cross-functional leads.
• Prepare time-phased risk-cost forecasts for integration into PMU2 and internal reporting.
• Explain movements between reporting periods with updated assessments.

Skills

Risk management

Monte Carlo simulation

Probabilistic risk modelling

Primavera P6

Cost forecasting

EAC

Stakeholder reporting

Advanced Excel

Contractual risk

Risk workshops

Education

Degree in Risk Management

Related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6 Risk

CEMAR

Deltek Acumen Risk

Safran Risk

Job description

BAM UK & Ireland, in partnership with Ferrovial Construction, seeks a Risk Manager to lead identification, assessment and reporting of risks and opportunities across the HRS15 Track North project. Based in Snow Hill, Birmingham, you will drive integrated risk management, governance, and informed decision-making for this major infrastructure programme.

You will coordinate risk workshops, maintain risk registers, and ensure alignment with contractual procedures and forecasts, while engaging with