Risk Manager

optimise; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday off

Christmas holiday shutdown

5% performance bonus

Employee assistance programme

Exclusive benefits platform

Paid CPD time

Job summary

optimise in Warrington is seeking a Risk Manager to support major national programmes across Utilities, Energy, Rail and Construction, delivering risk workshops, QCRA/QSRA modelling, and governance reporting.

You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary risk teams and clients, bring consultancy experience, and benefit from a hybrid role based out of our Birchwood office with paid CPD, birthday off, a 5% performance bonus, and an exclusive benefits platform.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering project risk management for clients or consultancies.
• Strong facilitation skills with senior stakeholder engagement.
• Hands-on QCRA/QSRA modelling proficiency.
• Solid understanding of project controls, governance and commercial risk.
• Consulting mindset with curiosity, resilience and communication.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate risk workshops and maintain project risk registers.
• Run quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses (QCRA/QSRA).
• Produce clear risk reports for client governance.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary risk teams and major infrastructure clients.

Skills

Risk management experience

Facilitation skills

QCRA/QSRA modelling

Project controls

Commercial risk

Consulting mindset

Job description

Location: Hybrid (Based out of our Warrington office, WA3 7QS)

Are you passionate about helping clients make better, data-driven decisions? Do you thrive on facilitating workshops, running robust QCRA/QSRA models, and shaping project risk culture?

We are expanding our consulting team at optimise and looking for a talented Risk Manager to support major, nationally significant programmes across Utilities, Energy, Rail, and Construction.

What You’ll Do:

Facilitate & Manage: Lead interactive risk workshops and maintain dynamic project risk registers.

Model & Analyse: Run quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses (QCRA using @Risk and QSRA using PRA/Safran).

Advise & Report: Produce clear, insightful risk reports that drive effective client governance.

Collaborate: Work hand-in-hand with our multidisciplinary risk practitioner team and directly with major infrastructure clients.

What You Bring:

Proven experience delivering project risk management within a client or consultancy environment.

Strong facilitation skills with the confidence to engage and influence senior stakeholders.

Hands-on technical proficiency in QCRA and QSRA modelling.

A solid understanding of project controls, governance, and commercial risk.

A consulting mindset defined by professional curiosity, resilience, and excellent communication.

High-Impact Work: Shape how major clients understand and manage uncertainty across critical UK infrastructure.

Flexibility: Modern hybrid working model based out of our Birchwood office.

Culture & Growth: A collaborative, supportive environment with a strong development pathway and protected paid CPD time to accelerate your career. Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy your birthday off, a full Christmas holiday shutdown on top of standard annual leave, a 5% performance bonus, an employee assistance programme (EAP), and an exclusive benefits platform.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you want to accelerate your consulting career and help deliver some of the UK’s most vital infrastructure projects, we’d love to hear from you.

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