Risk Manager - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend Plc.; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a capable Risk Manager to join their expanding London team. This role involves implementing an integrated risk management framework across major capital programmes, ensuring effective risk assessment and prioritization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in risk management within the infrastructure sector, particularly in rail, aviation, or utilities. With a commitment to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment, this forward-thinking company offers the opportunity to significantly impact high-profile projects while supporting your career growth. Join a team that values diversity and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible Working Environment

Healthy Work-Life Balance

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in risk delivery on major infrastructure projects.
• APM/IRM risk certification preferred for candidates.

Responsibilities

• Implement integrated risk management framework for capital programmes.
• Facilitate risk identification, assessment, and prioritization.

Skills

Risk Management

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Communication Skills

Risk Workshop Facilitation

Probabilistic Modelling

Education

Degree in Construction Related Subject

Tools

PRA

@risk

Safran

ARM

Predict

Tableau

Job description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

For 75 years we have been leading the delivery of major transformational programmes. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 118 offices worldwide.

Further to this success we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To achieve this, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

The world is changing, and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it.

Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us.

We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

We have exciting opportunity for a QRA capable Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding London based Infrastructure team, who are undertaking duties on a range of high profile projects across London and the south east of England.

Owing to the complex nature of the works involved, this role will suit Risk Manager from a rail, aviation, water/utilities, highways or Defence background with proven experience and understanding of the processes to be based in our London office.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

Implement or support the implementation of an integrated risk management framework across a major capital programme. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the sub-programme.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning.
• Assist with the identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget.
• Proactively manage the completion of management responses to help deliver target positions.
• Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
• Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• Candidates will be expected to demonstrate experienced levels of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or similar.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau.

Qualifications

In order to be able to carry out the duties of the role as required, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the following capabilities: Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk, a working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme, risk workshop facilitation, threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation, probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA and P6 proficiency – or equivalent). We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes. APM/IRM risk certified candidates preferred.

• Further, candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to finding new and more effective ways of working.
• Candidates will ideally be degree qualified in a construction related subject.
• We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on major infrastructure projects/programmes. APM/IRM risk certified.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.