Senior Risk PMO Lead - Major Infrastructure Projects

Southern Water group; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Water is seeking a Senior Risk Practitioner to lead risk management across our Major Projects portfolio, ensuring proactive identification, assessment and mitigation of threats and opportunities within large-scale infrastructure programmes.

You will set up and maintain risk registers, run QSRA/QCRA analyses, and translate risk insights into actionable mitigation plans, schedules, and forecasts while collaborating with project controls and risk owners.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in risk management within large-scale infrastructure projects.
• PMI-RMP, IRM, or APM Risk Practitioner certifications.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret technical, commercial, and scheduling information.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage risk management strategies, processes, and governance in alignment with corporate standards.
• Facilitate identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues.
• Set up and maintain risk registers in risk management software, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Work with risk owners to develop actionable mitigation strategies and track progress.
• Conduct QSRA/QCRA and advise on mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with project controls teams to integrate risk impacts into schedules and forecasts.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Scheduling & cost risk

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

ARM

Primavera Risk Analysis

Safran

Job description

Southern Water is seeking a Senior Risk Practitioner to lead risk management across our Major Projects portfolio, ensuring proactive identification, assessment and mitigation of threats and opportunities within large-scale infrastructure programmes.

You will set up and maintain risk registers, run QSRA/QCRA analyses, and translate risk insights into actionable mitigation plans, schedules, and forecasts while collaborating with project controls and risk owners.