Project Risk Manager - Energy & Natural Resources Full-Time

Turner & Townsend; Wedmore; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Risk Manager to join our busy Natural Resources and New Energies team. You will work with project delivery to design and implement risk management across multiple programmes, lead workshops, and produce robust risk data and reports.

The role offers collaboration with an award‑winning risk management community and exposure to high-profile projects. The role requires experience in multi-project risk roles, familiarity with risk standards (ISO31000/APM/Orange

Qualifications

• Experience in managing risk in multiple projects/programmes or equivalent risk role.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA).
• Familiarity with at least one risk tool.
• Awareness of Monte-Carlo techniques for Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA).
• Understanding of how Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost, Change) interact with Risk Management.
• Desirable risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or MoR.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design and implement risk management processes tailored to client needs.
• Facilitate risk workshops with subject matter experts.
• Create and maintain risk registers and related information.
• Challenge risk data to improve quality and robustness.
• Drive mitigation actions across projects and programmes.
• Develop management responses linked to mitigated positions.
• Conduct QRA for cost and schedule impacts.
• Produce timely risk reports using MS tools and Power BI.
• Coordinate with Project Controls and supply chain.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative risk analysis

ISO31000

APM/Orange Book/MoR

NEC contracts

Stakeholder management

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Tools

Power BI

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

Please find out more about us at: https://www.turnerandtownsend.com/en/about-us/our-purpose-and-values/

Job Description

The Opportunity

Turner & Townsend’s Natural Resources business has grown 35% in the last 9 months and is set triple in size over the next 3 years. We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources and New Energies team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects/Programmes. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Risk Management community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Key Responsibilities

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider risk management team responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailoring to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
• Facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts.
• Creation and maintenance of risk registers and other risk information.
• Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust.
• Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
• Assist the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, that support the post mitigated positions.
• Conduct Quantitative Risk Assessment and analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule impacts to support the understanding of the project’s remaining risk exposure.
• The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and excel) and Power BI.
• Working with Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
• Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.

Qualifications

The Candidate

Skills and behaviours

• Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
• Proactive approach ad excellent problem-solving capabilities.
• Strategic awareness and critical thinker with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.
• Ability to manage effective relationships with stakeholders and interfacing functions.
• Ability to interpret client requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Maintains awareness of current industry risk, emerging risk and best practice.
• Makes positive change happen, embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
• A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in managing risk in multiple projects/programmes or relevant experience in a similar risk role or environment is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one risk tool is essential.
• Awareness of Quantitative Risk Assessment (Monte-Carlo) technique is essential.
• An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Risk Management is desirable.
• A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is a leading consultancy provider with over 110 offices globally, we make the difference by providing professional services on major, complex projects across the Infrastructure, Defence, Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting major projects in the world.

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. Additionally, 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.

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

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

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