Senior Risk Manager, Infrastructure Projects

Poutrix; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Risk Manager in Birmingham. The role involves influencing and guiding high-profile projects in the rail, highway, and aviation sectors. Candidates should have a degree and demonstrated experience in risk management for major infrastructure, with proficiency in tools like @Risk and Safran. A commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace is emphasized.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualification, risk management credentials desirable.
• Experience delivering risk services on major infrastructure projects.
• In-depth knowledge of risk management frameworks and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of risk management services for major projects.
• Implement effective risk management practices.
• Facilitate risk workshops with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Risk management

Problem-solving

Communication

Team leadership

Project management frameworks

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Risk management certificate (desirable)

Tools

@Risk

Safran Risk

Primavera Risk Analysis

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 a confident, technically strong Senior Risk Manager to join our Mobility business, with the ability to influence, guide, and add value across high-profile projects and programmes, including those in the rail, highway, and aviation sectors.

In this leadership-focused role, you’ll provide expert risk management services that support client decision-making, improve delivery certainty, and drive innovation. You’ll also support the growth of our internal risk capability through quality assurance, service development, and mentoring.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead delivery of end-to-end risk management services for major infrastructure programmes, ensuring alignment with client governance, delivery frameworks, and strategic objectives.
• Implement and embed effective risk management practices, reducing uncertainty and enhancing performance across complex portfolios.
• Facilitate risk workshops and reviews with multidisciplinary teams to identify, assess, and manage risk proactively.
• Develop and deliver Quantitative Risk Analyses (QRA)—including cost, schedule, or integrated models—using tools such as @Risk, Safran Risk, and Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Produce periodic and ad hoc risk reports that summarise key insights, exposures, contingency forecasts, and risk response effectiveness.
• Act as a subject matter expert, providing support to the Service Capability Leader for Risk Management in service development, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Champion a culture of risk awareness, coaching and mentoring project teams and junior consultants on tools, techniques, and strategic application of risk principles.
• Support business development, including contribution to proposals, client engagement, and promotion of Arcadis’s risk management capabilities.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• A degree or equivalent qualification (risk management credentials such as APM Risk Certificate or IRM Certificate are highly desirable).
• Demonstrated experience delivering risk services on major infrastructure projects in sectors such as rail, transportation, energy, aviation, or utilities.
• In-depth knowledge of risk management frameworks, including ISO 31000 and methodologies from the Association for Project Management or Institute of Risk Management.
• Proficiency with enterprise and QRA tools including ARM, Palisade @Risk, Predict!, Xactium and Safran.
• Strong understanding of how risk integrates with other project controls disciplines including cost, schedule, planning, change, and commercial.
• Experience facilitating workshops, conducting qualitative risk assessments, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with Value Management techniques and application.
• A confident, professional communication style with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across functions.
• An analytical, problem-solving mindset, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure and against deadlines.

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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