Senior Risk Manager

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Risk Manager to join the Natural Resources team. The role involves managing risk for large water projects, providing strategic planning, and facilitating collaboration among teams. Ideal candidates will hold a relevant degree with substantial experience in risk management and have strong contractual knowledge.

Qualifications

• Senior specialist overseeing risk management within PMO.
• Experience in regulated utilities and infrastructure.
• In-depth sector knowledge and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic risk mitigation planning and project governance.
• Facilitate risk workshops and engage with project teams.
• Maintain Risk & Opportunity register across projects.

Skills

Risk Management

Project Governance

Stakeholder Engagement

Contractual Awareness (NEC3/NEC4)

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Risk Manager to join our Natural Resources team, within a travelling distance to Falmer. In this role you'll be manager risk for our 7 year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location : Hybrid working, split between the Falmer office, home and sites and offices across the region

Hours : Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced Senior Risk Manager to join our NRNN water team. In this role you'll will provide strategic risk mitigation planning, project governance and support to the design and build activity across the Southern Water portfolio of non-infrastructure, water and wastewater projects.

Your day to day will:

• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with the client to ensure their needs are met.
• Standardised approach to risk management across the Framework with the aim to create efficiencies between projects and portfolios.
• Facilitate risk workshops and meetings and engage with project teams to ensure the effective
• Working collaboratively with delivery teams and the supply chain to identify risks early, allocate responsibility and track these throughout the framework, programme and project lifecycle through mitigation plans giving consideration to Intelligent risk management
• Identify, amalgamate and manage key risks through a combined Risk & Opportunity (R&O) register.

What are we looking for?

This Senior Risk Manager role is great for you if you:

• Are a senior specialist, responsible for overseeing significant parts of the Risk Management within PMO.
• Hold a relevant degree (or equivalent) with proven experience within regulated utilities, infrastructure or the built environment sector.
• Have proven senior management experience, and a specialist in their field with in-depth knowledge of the sector.
• As well as excellent NEC3/NEC4 contractual and commercial awareness.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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