Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re 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 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers / Senior Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Edinburgh office. As Risk Manager / Senior Risk Manager, you will be an integral member of the Project Controls Team, undertaking duties on high profile infrastructure projects, across the energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities sector.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity
• Assist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timeline
• Produce and present fit for purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.
• Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.
• Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.

Qualifications

We are looking for individuals who can successfully demonstrate the following capabilities:

• A working understanding of developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes and projects
• Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitation
• Development of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation,
• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA or equivalent). However, industry leading training will be provided.
• Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions

It is essential that you have experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes or blue-chip clients. Project experience within energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities will be an advantage.

Attainment or working towards IRM / APM risk certified candidates preferred.

Candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to developing new and more effective ways of working.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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