Risk Manager

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd; Radstock; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work life balance

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements

25 days' annual leave

Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual

Private medical health insurance & EAP

Cycle to work scheme

Group Pension Plan

Job summary

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd. is seeking a Programme Risk Manager to provide specialist risk management across SEA programmes, projects and bids. You will support delivery teams to identify, assess, manage and report threats and opportunities across the full lifecycle.

Role offers hybrid working with sites in Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple. The successful candidate will have a formal risk management background, ability to run risk workshops and produce decision-ready reporting for

Qualifications

• Formal risk management qualification or working toward accreditation.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to improve delivery confidence, contingency planning and evidence-based decision making

Skills

Risk Management

Governance

Stakeholder reporting

Cost risk analysis

Schedule risk analysis

Excel

Education

APM accreditation (PMQ/MoR) desirable

Tools

Microsoft Project

Power BI

ARM

@Risk

PRA

Safran

Job description

Risk Manager

Application Deadline: 2026-10-19

Location: Radstock, Somerset, GB, BA3 3

Work Type: Any

Department: Systems Engineering & Assessment

Closing Date: 2026-11-17 at 10:00:18.92

About The Role

Engineered to Protect, that's 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.

What you'll be doing

• 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

At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return 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
• 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 - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what you'd like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on . Or reach out to us on You

About Us

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Locations

Any site (Barnstaple, Bristol, or Beckington) with hybrid working

Advertising Salary

Up to 58,000 per annum DOE

Division

Functional