Risk Management - all levels

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

Job summary

A global professional services company in Sheffield is seeking a Risk Manager to join their Project Controls Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and prioritising risks on high-profile infrastructure projects within the energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities sectors. Ideal candidates will demonstrate a strong understanding of risk management solutions and possess excellent communication skills. Experience with risk management tools and methodologies is preferred. The role offers an opportunity to impact major projects significantly.

Qualifications

• Experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes.
• Understanding of integrated risk management solutions.
• Ability to conduct qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification and prioritisation of risks.
• Produce and present timely risk reports.
• Monitor overall risk exposure against budget and timeline.

Skills

Risk management solutions

Risk and Scenario Analysis

Quantitative risk assessment

Communication skills

Proactive threat mitigation

Education

IRM / APM certification

Tools

Safran

@risk

PRA

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Company Description

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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Yorkshire/Northeast 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

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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

We are looking for individuals who can successfully demonstrate the following capabilities:

• 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). However, 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

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.