Risk Management - all levels

Turner Townsend; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking a Risk Manager to join their Project Controls Team in Nottingham. The ideal candidate will manage risks on high-profile infrastructure projects across various sectors such as energy and rail. Responsibilities include facilitating risk identification, developing management responses, and producing risk reports. Applicants should have experience in risk delivery on major projects and possess strong communication skills. Industry-specific experience is preferred, and certification towards IRM/APM is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience in a risk delivery role on major projects or blue-chip clients.
• Industry experience in energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities.
• Understanding of integrated risk management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification and prioritisation of risks.
• Develop and implement risk management strategies.
• Produce risk reports for senior management.

Skills

Risk delivery experience

Communication skills

Probabilistic modelling

Education

IRM/APM risk certification

Tools

@risk

PRA

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Midlands region. As a Risk Manager, you will be an integral member of the Project Controls Team, undertaking duties on high‑profile infrastructure projects across the energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities sector.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities & 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 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.
• Develop and facilitate Risk & Scenario Analysis workshops.
• Develop proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation strategies.
• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk (probabilistic modelling @risk, PRA or equivalent).
• Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk‑management interactions.
• Develop and implement integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes and projects.

Qualifications

• 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 & 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 & written) and be genuinely committed to developing new and more effective ways of working.

About Turner & Townsend

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.