Risk Manager - Energy

Project Risk Manager - Energy Sector

Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Employees work in a hybrid mode. Full-time.

Peace is working with a well-respected construction consultancy looking to appoint a Risk Manager to support the increased opportunities and demand within their Energy Resources Division. The Risk Manager will act as the gatekeeper for risk management, ensuring governance processes are adhered to and that the risk register is consistently reviewed, maintained, and populated. The Risk Manager will support the wider team and senior risk managers across work packages and projects of varying size and complexity, ranging from multiple smaller initiatives to a single, high-value project.

Key responsibilities include:

• The accurate capture of risk data and facilitating the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues.
• Maintaining clear visibility of trigger points to support effective risk cost profiling, timely risk budget drawdown, and appropriate risk retirement.
• Ensuring client objectives are met and projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, and quality standards.
• Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailored to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
• Facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts.
• Creation and maintenance of risk registers and other risk information.
• Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust.
• Driving the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
• Assisting the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, that support the post mitigated positions.
• Demonstrating basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.
• The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and Excel) and Power BI.
• Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau.
• Collaborating with other Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
• Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.

Qualifications:

• Professional Risk Management experience in one or more sectors across the whole Project lifecycle.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies and process in response to change.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders.
• Conversant with risk management systems such as Safran, @risk, PRA.
• Strategic awareness and critical thinking are key, with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.

Additional Qualifications:

• Member of a relevant professional body e.g., Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Association for Project Management.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA).
• A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good research and analytical skills.
• Stakeholder management experience.
• Experience of working within a Project Controls team.
• Prior Renewables or Oil & Gas sector experience is desirable.

Salary: Up to 85,000 DOE

Type: Permanent

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