Risk Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Elgin; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies including 28+

Pension and share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc’s Power Transmission & Distribution team is seeking a Risk Manager to lead governance, risk registers and in-flight risk across Stage 1 and Stage 2 projects. You will coordinate risk workshops with commercial, project and client teams and ensure evidence-based, client-facing risk outputs.

This hybrid role requires strong communication, stakeholder engagement and experience in dedicated risk management within large organisations.

Qualifications

• Professional certification such as Institute of Risk Management membership or APM Risk Practitioner (desirable).
• Experience in a dedicated Risk Management role within medium to large organisations.
• Strong understanding of risk and control processes across complex environments.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder engagement skills with senior management.
• QCRA / QSRA experience.
• Proven ability to build and maintain relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Skilled in workshop facilitation and delivery of training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, review and governance of project risk registers across Stage 1 and Stage 2 lifecycles.
• Lead collaborative risk workshops with commercial, project, estimating and client risk teams.
• Challenge risk identification, root-cause analysis, risk structuring and mitigation.
• Review cost and schedule estimates, probability assumptions and concurrency logic.
• Ensure inputs are aligned with programmes and delivery assumptions; client-facing outputs prepared.
• Lead in-flight risk management, including mitigation tracking and exposure updates.
• Produce project and group-level reporting with clear data-driven insights for governance.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Governance reporting

Risk registers

Root cause analysis

Communication

Project risk

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution business is delivering some of the UK’s most ambitious energy infrastructure projects, driving decarbonisation and innovation at every turn.

We are seeking a Risk Manager to join our Power T&D Innovation Team. In this role, you will lead the development, challenge, governance and management of project risk information across both the baseline risk process and in-flight delivery stage. The role will provide project-facing risk leadership, ensuring risk registers are technically robust, commercially aligned, evidence-based, client-facing where required and capable of supporting project governance, GTIC/BTIC review, client scrutiny and portfolio-level reporting.

Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home

What you'll be doing

• Lead the development, review and governance of project risk registers across Stage 1 and Stage 2 Project Lifecycles.
• Lead collaborative risk workshops with commercial, project, estimating and client risk teams.
• Challenge risk identification, root-cause analysis, risk structuring, ownership, mitigation and residual exposure
• Review and validate 3-point cost and schedule estimates, probability assumptions and concurrency logic
• Ensure QSRA inputs are aligned with the project programme, quantified risk position and delivery assumptions
• Ensure risk registers are GTIC/BTIC-ready and client-facing versions are suitable for review and sign-off
• Lead in-flight risk management, including emerging risk assessment, mitigation tracking, contingency movement and exposure updates
• Support client risk reduction meetings and ensure actions are captured, owned and reflected in the live risk position
• Support compensation event recovery through clear risk data, evidence, exposure movement and supporting narrative
• Produce project and group-level reporting that provides clear, data-driven insight for leadership and governance forums
• Guide Risk Analysts and support consistent data quality, version control, evidence capture and reporting outputs

Who we're looking for

• Professional certification such as Institute of Risk Management membership or APM Risk Practitioner (desirable)
• Experience working in a dedicated Risk Management role within medium to large organisations.
• Strong understanding of risk and control processes and their application across complex business environments.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior management and stakeholders at all levels.
• QCRA / QSRA experience
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Skilled in workshop facilitation and delivery of training sessions

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

• - Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times,
• - 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• - Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• - Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]