Risk Management Consultant - Project Controls

Squarcle; West of England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Annual training week abroad

Pension

Cycle to work

Discounted travel

Job summary

Squarcle is seeking a Consultant (Risk Management) to deliver risk management activities across diverse projects and programmes. You will identify, assess, manage and report risks, maintain accurate risk information, and support governance with clear visibility of risks and opportunities to enable successful delivery.

Working closely with Project Managers and stakeholders, you will facilitate risk reviews, document mitigation actions, and ensure owners are named and responsible for agreed

Qualifications

• Previous experience within project risk management, project controls or project delivery.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and supporting risk identification and assessment.
• Understanding of risk probability, impact, exposure and mitigation.
• Experience facilitating or contributing to project risk reviews, with the ability to prepare an agenda, draw out stakeholder input and capture agreed risks, owners and actions when facilitating a review.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret risk information and communicate key points clearly to project stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain project and programme risk and opportunity registers, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
• Support teams in identifying, assessing and documenting risks and opportunities. Work with the relevant owners to define mitigation actions for threats and actions to realise opportunities.
• Facilitate regular risk reviews and workshops with project teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor risk exposure, track mitigation actions with named owners and agreed completion dates, and elevate significant or emerging risks through agreed governance routes. Support risk owners in reviewing residual exposure, while leaving decisions on risk acceptance and implementation of responses with the authorised owners.
• Undertake qualitative risk assessments using agreed probability and impact criteria.
• Where required to the level of the role, support quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis by preparing and validating risk inputs, documenting assumptions and helping explain the results, with guidance from experienced analysts.
• Work alongside Project Managers, Schedulers and wider Project Controls teams to understand the potential impact of risks on cost, schedule and delivery.
• Produce regular risk reports and management information to support project governance and decision-making.
• Support the management of RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are appropriately captured and managed.
• Ensure risk management activity follows agreed client governance, processes and controls.

Skills

Risk management

Risk registers

Stakeholder mgmt

Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication

Governance

Project controls

Tools

ARM

MS Office

Job description

Squarcle is seeking a Consultant (Risk Management) to deliver risk management activities across diverse projects and programmes. You will identify, assess, manage and report risks, maintain accurate risk information, and support governance with clear visibility of risks and opportunities to enable successful delivery.

Working closely with Project Managers and stakeholders, you will facilitate risk reviews, document mitigation actions, and ensure owners are named and responsible for agreed