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Senior Risk Manager

KIER GROUP

Lewes

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 85,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Risk Manager focusing on risk mitigation within the water sector. This role involves managing risks for a major framework with Southern Water, fostering relationships with clients, and ensuring effective risk management across various projects. The position offers a blend of office and hybrid work options, emphasizing the importance of experience in regulated utilities.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in Risk Management within PMO.
  • Proven management experience in regulated utilities or infrastructure.
  • In-depth knowledge of the sector.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic risk mitigation planning and project governance.
  • Facilitate risk workshops and standardize approaches across projects.
  • Maintain relationships with clients and identify key risks.

Skills

NEC3/NEC4 contractual awareness
Risk management
Project governance

Education

Relevant degree (or equivalent)

Job description

View more categories | View less categories | Contract | Permanent | Hours | Full time | Sector | Engineering, Engineering management

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

Location: Hybrid working, split between the Falmer office, home, and sites/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 provide strategic risk mitigation planning, project governance, and support to the design and build activities across the Southern Water portfolio of non-infrastructure, water, and wastewater projects.

  • Build and maintain excellent working relationships with the client to ensure their needs are met.
  • Standardize risk management approaches across the Framework to create efficiencies between projects and portfolios.
  • Facilitate risk workshops and meetings, engaging with project teams to ensure effective risk management.
  • Work 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, considering 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 ideal if you:

  • Are a senior specialist overseeing significant parts of 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 in-depth knowledge of the sector.
  • Possess excellent NEC3/NEC4 contractual and commercial awareness.

We value potential and transferable skills! Even if you don't meet every requirement, please apply and let's chat.

If you want to learn more about our water business growth, explore our project portfolios, and discover career opportunities, see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to join us. Register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career!

Rewards and benefits

We offer a wide variety of benefits tailored to your needs. More information about benefits can be found here.

Diversity and inclusion

We prioritize making Kier a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employees help shape our diversity and inclusion initiatives. Our D&I action plan is available here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure that disabled applicants meeting minimum criteria will be offered an interview.

We look forward to your application to #joinkier.

Documents

  • Southern Water Senior Risk Manager (1).pdf (42.35 KB)

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