Risk Manager in Birmingham

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

About The Business Unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

Join our award-winning Risk team as we enter an exciting phase of growth. We're looking for talented risk management professionals to help shape and safeguard complex Construction and Infrastructure projects across a range of dynamic sectors - including Transport, Defence, Water, Buildings, and Energy.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Undertake assurance reviews of risk deliverables and methodologies to confirm conformance to best practice.
• Experience informing the development of Business Cases, Investment Decisions and Appraisals, including assuring the quality of risk evidence.
• Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment, including embedding expertise into their teams.
• Coach, develop and supervise project staff and sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Demonstrate competency with implementing Risk Management processes aligned with ISO31000/ Institute of Risk Management / Association of Project Management methodologies on complex Construction and Infrastructure projects.
• Initiating, developing, and implementing risk management processes.
• Facilitating risk workshops as part of the overall delivery of the risk process.
• Conducting regular risk reviews to maintain a project risk register and ensure that the project risk profile is accurate and current.
• Undertaking Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis techniques.
• Producing appropriate risk management reports to inform decision making.
• Awareness of industry risk management tools such as: ARM, Xactium, Primavera Risk Analysis, SafranRisk, @Risk, Risk Predict!
• An understanding of how risk management integrates with other Project Management and Project Controls disciplines.
• Implement effective risk management activities to actively reduce risk exposure and uncertainty on projects & programmes.
• Support development and implementation of risk management approaches/systems for clients, incorporating best practice and procedures.
• Facilitate workshops and engage with project teams to ensure the effective implementation of risk management.
• Work closely with planners to understand delivery expectations, identify potential risks and link risks to schedule activities.

Desirable:

• Good research and analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and organisation skills.
• Essential Soft skills include, effective listening, persuasion, collaborative style, leadership, flexibility, self‑motivation, creativity and insightfulness.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.