Risk Manager, Infrastructure Projects

Poutrix; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy is seeking an experienced Risk Manager to join its Mobility business in London. This role involves working on major infrastructure programs, leading risk management activities, and engaging with clients to ensure effective risk management strategies. The ideal candidate will have experience in the construction sector, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with risk management tools. This position offers a chance to work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in construction or infrastructure sectors.
• Proven capability in developing QRA techniques.
• Collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver robust risk management services as per client frameworks.
• Lead day-to-day risk management activities.
• Produce tailored risk reports for decision-making.

Skills

Risk management

Client-focused mindset

Critical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Education

APM Risk Certificate or equivalent

Tools

@Risk

Safran

Primavera Risk Analysis

Active Risk Manager (ARM)

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We’re looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Mobility business, working on some of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure programmes. You’ll also support a portfolio of clients in sectors including highways, aviation, utilities, and new build construction.

In this role, you’ll be embedded into project and programme environments, helping clients identify, assess, and manage risks effectively. You’ll bring structure, insight, and strategic thinking to risk management, ensuring it’s integrated across project controls functions to deliver more predictable outcomes.

Role accountabilities:

• Deliver robust risk management services in line with client governance frameworks, processes, and objectives.
• Lead day-to-day risk management activities including identification, qualitative and quantitative assessment, mitigation planning, and ongoing review of risks and opportunities.
• Develop and implement Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) models—cost, schedule, or integrated—using tools such as @Risk, Safran, and Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Produce tailored, periodic risk reports highlighting key trends, exposures, contingency use, and drawdown profiles to support informed decision-making.
• Embed structured risk processes within programme and project controls, ensuring alignment with planning, change, cost, commercial, and reporting disciplines.
• Act as a risk management champion, engaging and coaching teams across client organisations in the value and application of proactive risk management.
• Deliver both embedded and standalone risk interventions, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Support the development of Arcadis’s internal risk capability, including QA of deliverables, mentoring team members, and contributing to service innovation.

Qualifications & Experience:

We’re seeking someone who brings technical excellence, critical thinking, and a client-focused mindset to the role. Ideally, you will have:

• A relevant risk-related qualification such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, or equivalent (or working towards).
• Strong experience in construction or infrastructure sectors, ideally across complex, high-value programmes.
• Proven capability in developing and applying QRA techniques, including cost-loaded and logic-linked schedule analysis.
• Experience using enterprise risk systems such as Active Risk Manager (ARM), Palisade @Risk, Predict!, or Xactium.
• A solid understanding of how risk integrates with project controls disciplines—planning, cost, change control, commercial, and reporting.
• A collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement, with the ability to explain risk in a clear and impactful way.
• A logical, structured problem-solving mindset with the ability to work through complexity.
• Familiarity with Value Management techniques and strategic-level risk delivery is highly desirable.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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