Risk Manager

Sizewell C Company; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5% annual incentive

Pension: up to 7.5% employee / 15%}

Job summary

Sizewell C is seeking a Risk Manager to join our London-based PMO, with hybrid working and a minimum of three days in the office. You will support the operation of PMO risk processes, co-ordinate risk activities, and help deliver risk dashboards and forecasts across a delivery programme.

You will collaborate with Senior Risk Managers, facilitate workshops, and ensure risk governance aligns with our project controls framework, with a strong focus on cost and schedule QRAs.

Qualifications

• Experience in risk management within a PMO environment.
• Ability to facilitate workshops and engage diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to produce and review QRAs for cost and schedule.
• Experience supporting EAC updates and risk dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Risk Manager in operating Integrated Project Controls (Risk) processes.
• Deputise at key delivery programme meetings as required.
• Assist in planning and coordinating risk activities (EAC, ERR, QRA).
• Support progress reporting including monthly risk dashboards and forecasts.

Skills

Risk management

Facilitation

QRAs

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

MS Excel

Primavera P6

Job description

London, GB, EC2R 7BP Felixstowe, GB, IP10 0DD

Sizewell C is entering an exciting phase of growth as we mature into an independent organisation and continue building one of the UK’s largest and most important energy projects. We are now recruiting the below position.

Contract:Permanent, full-time.

Location: London - hybrid,minimum 3 days per week in the office.

• Bonus: 5% annual incentive
• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee contribution / 15% employer contribution

Closing Date: Thursday 15th October 2026

Impact

As a Risk Manager, you will be working within the Project Management Office (PMO) and will support/ be deployed with one of SZC’s delivery programmes.Your role will be to support the operation of all PMO risk processes across SZC, reporting to a Senior Risk Manager. This will entail supporting the ownership, deployment, and continuous improvement of all the PMO risk process elements of one of SZC’s delivery programmes whilst helping to ensure we operate and deliver controls within the SZC governance structure, organisation and delivery model. They will help ensure PMO risk activities being carried out in an efficient manner in accordance with calendars and deadlines established on SZC.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Support the Senior Risk Manager in operating Integrated Project Controls (Risk) processes.
• Take on tasks directed by the Senior Risk Manager, and deputise at key delivery programme meetings.
• Provide support to the Senior Risk Manager with the planning & co-ordination of risk activities such as EAC update, ERR preparation, Integrated-QRA development etc.
• Support the Senior Risk Manager with progress reporting including monthly risk dashboard updates, forecast to complete, variance identification, delivery process insights and opportunities for improvement.

Knowledge & Skills

• Proven facilitation skills; able to independently facilitate workshops within programme.
• Good technical skills; able to independently deliver QRAs, spanning Cost QRAs and Schedule QRAs
• Linked capability to integrate/ support breadth of project controls/ project delivery/ business support processes (e.g. Finance)
• Good engagement skills; able to independently engage teams of: Range of project and corporate professionals

Qualifications & Experience

• Project management and broader project controls experience desirable.
• Good technical skills; able to deliver QRAs with support, spanning Cost QRAs and Schedule QRAs
• Linked capability to integrate/ support breadth of project controls/ project delivery/ business support processes (e.g. Finance)
• Possible risk management/ other technical/ capital-intensive sector-specific management qualifications

Why Join Us

• A major infrastructure project with national impact
• Hybrid working with flexibility built in
• Competitive salary,bonusand benefits
• Clear progression and development opportunities
• Supportive, collaborative team environment

Behavioural Competences

Humility

• Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
• Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.

Positivity

• Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
• Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
• Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.

Respect

• Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
• Give and receive feedback with respect.
• Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
• One team, working closely together and helping each other.
• Empowered teams always looking forward.
• Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.

Clarity

• Communicate clearly and consistently.
• Promote collaboration and team alignment.
• Drive simplification at all levels.

When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.

At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work.It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.