Risk Manager

SEA LTD; Poltimore; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

25 days annual leave

Private medical health insurance

Group Pension Plan

Cycle to work

Wellbeing Centre

Life assurance

Job summary

SEA LTD in the United Kingdom is seeking a Programme Risk Manager to provide specialist risk management across SEA programmes, projects and bids, helping teams identify, assess, and manage threats and opportunities through the full lifecycle.

Based at Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple with flexible working, the role emphasizes robust governance, data quality and decision-ready reporting to support delivery objectives in a high-assurance environment.

Qualifications

• P3M, project controls or risk management qualification, with formal accreditation such as PMQ, MoR desirable.
• Significant experience managing risk in complex systems.
• Defence/engineering or high-assurance engineering sector experience preferred.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops, maintaining RAIDO/risk registers, developing mitigation plans and producing decision-ready risk reporting.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain robust risk governance, including risk reviews, risk workshops, escalation routes, and decision-ready risk reporting
• Maintain high-quality risk, opportunity, assumption, issue and dependency information, ensuring risk exposure is understood and actively managed against objectives
• Support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to improve delivery confidence, contingency planning and evidence-based decision making

Skills

P3M risk management

Risk workshops

RAIDO/risk registers

MS Excel

MS Project

Power BI

ARM

@Risk

Education

APM accreditation (PMQ/MoR)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Power BI

ARM

@Risk

PRA

Safran

Job description

About The Role

Engineered to Protect, thats our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.

The Programme Risk Manager is responsible for providing specialist risk management capability across SEA programmes, projects and bids, supporting delivery teams to identify, assess, manage and report threats and opportunities across the full lifecycle.

Risk Manager will be based at either our Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple sites. This role allows for flexible working. The salary for this role is up to £58k, depending on experience.

• Establish and maintain robust risk management governance, including risk reviews, risk workshops, escalation routes, and decision-ready risk reporting
• Maintain high-quality risk, opportunity, assumption, issue and dependency information, ensuring risk exposure is understood and actively managed against programme objectives, cost, schedule and OQOTOC commitments
• Support, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including cost and schedule risk inputs, to improve delivery confidence, contingency planning and evidence-based decision making

About our company

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

What we offer

We offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:

• Work life balance
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
• Family & wellbeing
• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Cash Plan
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
• Facilities & resources
• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

The skills you need

• Relevant P3M, project controls or risk management qualification, with formal APM accreditation such as PMQ, MoR or equivalent desirable; candidates actively working toward relevant accreditation will be considered
• Significant experience managing risk in complex systems
• Programmes within the defence/engineering sectors, or similar high-assurance engineering sector
• Practical experience facilitating risk workshops, maintaining RAIDO/risk registers, developing mitigation plans and producing decision-ready risk reporting for senior stakeholders
• Working knowledge of integrated project controls, including how risk, schedule, cost, change, assumptions and dependencies interact across the programme lifecycle
• Experience supporting bids and live delivery programmes, including risk inputs to estimates, schedules, governance reviews and management reporting
• Competence with Microsoft Excel and project/risk management tools; experience with Microsoft Project, Power BI, ARM, @Risk, PRA, Safran or equivalent tools would be advantageous

Join us and be part of something smaller - with500people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.