Project Risk Manager Opportunity - Energy & Natural Resource

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

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Risk Manager to support projects within the Energy & Natural Resources division in the UK. You’ll capture risk data, assess threats and opportunities, and help maintain risk visibility and budgets.

The role involves working with Safran, @risk and PRA tools, and collaborating across project controls and supply chain. This position requires strong communication, sector versatility, and a willingness to work in a nuclear context.

Qualifications

• Professional risk management experience across project lifecycles.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies in response to change.
• Excellent communication of complex risk data to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with risk management systems such as Safran, @risk, PRA.
• Strategic thinking and strong analytical skills.

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 information.
• Challenge risk data to improve robustness and quality.
• Drive mitigation actions across projects and programmes.
• Develop measurable management responses, post-mitigation.
• Conduct Quantitative Risk Assessment for cost/schedule impacts.
• Produce risk reporting using PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Power BI.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Quantitative risk analysis

Risk workshops

Education

APM Risk Certificate Level 2

MoR qualification

ISO31000 familiarity

Tools

Safran

@risk

PRA

Power BI

ARM

Xactium

Tableau

Job description

Due to increased opportunities and demand in the Energy & Natural Resources division, the North West team are recruiting for Risk Managers to join a diverse and supportive team during a period of significant growth. Our nuclear client is at the forefront of industry leading change, and we are keen to speak to like-minded individuals with risk management experience to see what Turner & Townsend can offer you. Candidates will be required to be present in our client office in Warrington for 3 days per week.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

A Risk Manager will be required to support the team and their senior risk managers for work packages and projects of varying size and complexity. Due to the nature of the programme of works, work packages may vary in size with risk managers working across smaller projects or one which could be significantly larger in value. A Risk Manager will be responsible for the accurate capture of risk data, facilitating identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues. They will maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threats/opportunities. They play a key role in ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

As a Risk Manager, you have a passion to provide services as required by our clients, which may include:

• 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.
• Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.
• The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and excel) and Power BI. Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau.
• Collaborating with other 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

You have professional Risk Management experience in one or more sectors across the whole Project lifecycle. While nuclear experience is desirable it is not an absolute requirement. You have the ability to adjust risk strategies and process in response to change and have excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders. You are conversant with risk management systems such as Safran, @risk, PRA. Strategic awareness and critical thinking are key, with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.

You also:

• Will be able to obtain BPSS level security clearance.
• Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g., Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Association for Project Management
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA)
• A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable
• Have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Have good research and analytical skills.
• Have stakeholder management experience.
• Have experience of working within a Project Controls team.
• Have a desire to work within the nuclear sector.

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.

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

Project Risk Manager Opportunity - Energy & Natural Resource • UK wide, UK, United Kingdom