Risk Management - All Levels

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services company in Manchester is seeking Risk Managers for its Project Controls Team. Candidates should have experience in risk delivery roles, ideally on major projects within fields such as energy, defence, and utilities. Strong communication skills and knowledge of risk management tools like Safran and @risk are essential. This role offers opportunities to develop effective solutions in a supportive work environment that values work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience with major projects/programmes or blue-chip clients.
• Familiarity with quantitative modelling tools.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification and assessment of threats and opportunities.
• Monitor overall risk exposure against budget and timeline.
• Produce and present relevant risk reports.

Skills

Risk and Scenario Analysis

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Excellent Communication Skills

Project Controls Methodology

Education

Experience in a risk delivery role

Tools

Safran

@risk

PRA

ARM

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

Risk Management - All Levels

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

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Northwest region, at our Manchester office.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation 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

Qualifications

• 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). Industry‑leading training will be provided
• Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions

It is 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 www.turnerandtownsend.com.

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

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