Risk Manager / Senior Risk Manager in Birmingham

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Location/s: Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Warrington, Derby, London UK.

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We deliver 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.

Join our award‐winning Risk team. We’re looking for talented risk management professionals to 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:

• 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.
• Work as a consultant within a client environment, embedding expertise into their teams.
• Coach, develop and supervise project staff and share knowledge and expertise.
• Build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Candidate specification:

Essential:

• Implement risk management processes aligned with ISO31000/Institute of Risk Management/Association of Project Management methodologies on complex Construction and Infrastructure projects.
• Initiate, develop and implement risk management processes.
• Facilitate risk workshops as part of the overall delivery of the risk process.
• Conduct regular risk reviews to maintain a project risk register and ensure that the project risk profile is accurate and current.
• Undertake quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis techniques.
• Produce 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!
• Understand how risk management integrates with other Project Management and Project Controls disciplines including cost estimating, project planning and contract administration.
• 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 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.
• Effective listening, persuasion, collaborative style, leadership, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity and insightfulness.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.

UK Immigration:

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working:

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 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:

• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• 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.

Financial wellbeing:

• 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.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‐term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle:

• 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.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years' service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‐street retailers.
• Enhanced family and carers leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development:

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‐development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes:

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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