Senior Project Controls Engineer - Risk - Defence

TN United Kingdom; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer specializing in risk management within the defence sector. This role involves collaborating with project teams to identify and assess risks, ensuring effective communication and decision-making throughout the project lifecycle. You will utilize advanced tools to analyze risk data and contribute to the successful delivery of major infrastructure projects. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and professional growth, and be part of a mission that supports complex and challenging commissions while making a meaningful impact on society.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field or equivalent qualifications in risk delivery.
• Membership in a professional body such as APM, IRM, or PMI.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification and prioritization of project risks.
• Produce timely risk reports for effective communication.
• Support quantitative risk assessments to inform project contingency.

Skills

Risk Management

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Threat Mitigation

Opportunity Exploitation

Project Management

Education

Degree in a relevant technical or management field

Membership of a professional body (APM, IRM, PMI)

Tools

PRA

@risk

Safran

ARM

Predict

Power-BI

Job description

Senior Project Controls Engineer - Risk - Defence, Bristol

Client: Turner & Townsend

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Job Category: -

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: ac52251f81df

Job Views: 4

Posted: 02.05.2025

Expiry Date: 16.06.2025

Job Description:

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 245 offices worldwide.

The Defence Infrastructure Cost Centre provides support to projects that range in complexity and size with our service offerings spanning across Programme and Project Management, Project Planning, Cost Engineering, Risk Management, and Commercial Disciplines.
We support the full project lifecycle both pre-contract and post-contract, delivering infrastructure projects ranging from several hundred thousand pounds to major projects and programmes worth over £200M.

Due to growing client requirements, we are actively looking to expand our team with talented individuals to support our Defence client portfolio, while further developing their careers on complex and challenging commissions.

Job Responsibilities

• Facilitate identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues within projects through workshops and direct support to project teams.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling and retirement.
• Use risk data to inform planning and decision-making.
• Assist in identifying and recording management responses, ensuring they are measurable and specific, and assess post-mitigation positions.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget.
• Collaborate with contractors to assess risks and their views on client-held risks impacting them.
• Produce timely risk reports to support effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
• Support quantitative risk assessments (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• Utilize tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran, or web-based database tools like ARM, Predict, or Power-BI.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and relevant experience in a risk delivery role.
• Membership of a professional body such as APM, IRM, or PMI.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment.
• Experience in threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation.
• Knowledge of integrated risk management processes on large programmes.
• Awareness of governance and policy guidance including IR.