Risk Manager

Risk Manager – Project Controls

Salary: Circa £50,000–£70,000 depending on experience

Location: South West England or the London area

Hybrid: 3 days a week on-site (either office or client site)

We are supporting a client in the defence sector with the recruitment of a Risk Manager – Project Controls. This role offers the opportunity to work across multiple UK locations on high-profile projects within a collaborative and experienced project controls team.

Role Overview

The Risk Manager will be responsible for implementing and maintaining risk management processes across various infrastructure projects and programmes.

The role involves maintaining risk registers, facilitating risk workshops, producing timely risk reports, challenging risk information for accuracy and robustness, and ensuring alignment with other project controls disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement risk management processes and promote best practices within project teams
• Guide project teams and support performance management decision-making
• Produce risk reports to communicate project risk positions effectively
• Align risk information with scheduling, cost control, and change control disciplines

Requirements

• Experience in managing risk in a project or programme environment across infrastructure projects, such as water, aviation, transportation, etc.
• Understanding of project controls interactions with risk management
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) desirable
• Relevant qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or MoR Practitioner
• Familiarity with at least one risk tool (ARM, Predict! Risk Controller, Risk Hive, Xactium)
• Willingness to travel to client sites as required
• Right to work in the UK without sponsorship

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.

This is a permanent role.