Risk Manager

Vinci; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international engineering firm in the UK seeks a Risk Manager to oversee project risk management and enhance risk culture within the organization. The candidate will be responsible for developing risk management processes and training staff to improve competencies. With over 5 years of relevant experience and proficiency in Microsoft Office, the applicant will facilitate effective risk reviews and assist teams in managing project risks. The role requires flexibility to travel occasionally to various UK sites.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in risk-related roles.
• PC literate, especially in Microsoft Excel.
• Articulate with good written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage project risk activities to ensure adherence to company processes.
• Develop risk management processes, guidelines, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate risk reviews and assist project teams in managing risks.
• Train and develop risk management competency across the organization.

Skills

Relevant work experience in risk related Roles

Project Cost Management

Project Schedule Management & Strategic Planning

Flexibility to travel

Good written communication

Education

Working towards APM Chartership

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Risk Manager

Birchwood, Warrington

Permanent

Purpose of the job

This role is the main point of contact and responsibility within the business line for all Project and business line risk activity. The role will be responsible for ensuring that both project and business line risk within the organisation is managed within the bounds of company procedures and that those procedures are in line with wider best practice.

Reports to

Reports into the PE&D Project Controls Manager, but day to day works alongside all Business Managers, Project Management staff and Project Teams.

Key Accountabilities

The PE&D Risk Manager will be responsible for the delivery of a project risk improvement project, ensuring that the processes, tools and systems are in place for best practice risk management on all Nuvia projects. This will include both qualitative and quantitative risk management, and will work closely with the planning team to facilitate and implement quantitative risk analysis on project schedules. Secondly, the position will support the ongoing risk management at a business level.

Project Risk Management

• Development and Definition of project risk management processes, guidance documents, templates and forms and continuous improvement of thereof
• Providing oversight of project risk management activities on projects to ensure company processes are being followed and hence risks are being adequately identified, assessed and managed
• Providing assistance, as required, to project teams to assist them in the effective management of risk, including the facilitation of risk reviews
• Implementation of risk modelling activities on live projects

Promotion of a Risk Management Culture & Change

• Training and development of risk management competency within the Project Management Community & wider business
• Review and update of risk management and project controls processes to ensure best practice
• Implementation of a new risk management system into the business in 2026
• Communicate regularly with the business on risk related activity

Tendering Support

• Facilitation and management of risk on prospects during the tendering process
• Implementation of risk modelling activities on live tender schedules
• Provision of overall prospects risk profiling to aid review and due process

Business Level Risk Management

• Facilitation to business level risk workshops and management of the business line risk register
• Attendance at risk committees, representing the business line as needed
• Support to risk scoring and development, including escalation to organizational risk where required
• Support to the corporate risk management, including advising on process and scoring updates
• Management of a team of staff employees and supply chain resource as required, in order to support the above work across multiple business lines.

Work scope is subject to change in order to support business needs.

Occupational Skills and Knowledge

• Relevant work experience in risk related Roles (5+ years)
• Working towards APM Chartership or equivalent membership of an appropriate professional body

Duties and Requirements

• Project Cost Management
• Project Schedule Management & Strategic Planning (P6)
• Risk Management Methodologies
• Experience across the project lifecycle
• Flexibility to travel to other UK offices and sites on occasion as necessary
• PC literate in Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel
• Articulate with good written communication

Desirable

• Project Management or controls experience
• General understanding of nuclear process plant and equipment would be beneficial
• Experience of highly regulated industry
• Full UK driving licence