Risk Manager in Manchester

Location and recruiter contact

Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Warrington, Derby, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, UK.

Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

About the role

Join our award‑winning Risk team as we enter an exciting phase of growth.

We are 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

• 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 share knowledge and expertise.
• 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, including but not limited to:

• 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, Safran Risk, @Risk, Risk Predict.
• Understanding how risk management integrates with other Project Management and Project Controls disciplines including cost estimating, project planning and contract administration.
• Implementing effective risk management activities to actively reduce risk exposure and uncertainty on projects & programmes.
• Supporting development and implementation of risk management approaches/systems for clients, incorporating best practice and procedures.
• Facilitating workshops and engaging with project teams to ensure the effective implementation of risk management.
• Working closely with planners to understand delivery expectations, identify potential risks and link risks to schedule activities.
• Candidate specification (Desirable)
• Good research and analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and organisational skills.
• Soft skills including effective listening, persuasion, collaborative style, leadership, flexibility, self‑motivation, creativity and insightfulness.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.
• UK Immigration

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK.

This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024.

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

At Mott Mac Donald, 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.

Benefits

• 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 programme, 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 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × 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
• Enhanced family 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 and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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