At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead risk governance and support teams in identifying and mitigating threats while maximising opportunities.
- Company: Join a dynamic organisation focused on delivering high-assurance projects.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, 25 days annual leave, private medical insurance, and a strong pension plan.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements and excellent career growth opportunities await you.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring safer, more reliable project delivery in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in risk management and relevant qualifications; candidates towards accreditation are welcome.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
As Programme Risk Manager, you will lead risk governance across SEA programmes, projects and bids to identify, assess, and mitigate threats while maximizing opportunities. You will support delivery teams with qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, updating risk registers and providing decision-ready reporting to senior stakeholders. This role blends risk management with governance and bid support, enabling safer, more reliable delivery in a high-assurance environment. You will collaborate across sites with flexible, hybrid working arrangements and contribute to protecting critical assets and operations.
Pay / Benefits
- Hybrid/flexible working
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Private medical health insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Pension Plan with up to 8% employer contribution
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain risk governance, including risk reviews, workshops, escalation routes and risk reporting
- Maintain high-quality risk, opportunity, assumption, issue and dependency information aligned with objectives, cost, schedule and commitments
- Support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to improve delivery confidence and contingency planning
- Produce decision-ready risk reporting for senior stakeholders
- Contribute to risk escalation and governance reviews across programmes
- Support bids and live delivery with risk inputs to estimates and schedules
Key requirements
- Relevant P3M, project controls or risk management qualification; formal APM accreditation (PMQ, MoR or equivalent) desirable; candidates toward accreditation considered
- Significant experience managing risk in complex defence/engineering programmes or similar high-assurance environments
- Experience facilitating risk workshops and maintaining RAIDO/risk registers
- Knowledge of integrated project controls and how risk, schedule, cost, changes, assumptions and dependencies interact across the lifecycle
- Experience supporting bids and live delivery with risk inputs to estimates, governance reviews and reporting
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and project/risk management tools; familiarity with Microsoft Project, Power BI, ARM, @Risk, PRA, Safran or equivalents advantageous
- Stakeholder communication and reportability to senior leadership
- Facilitation and cross-functional collaboration
- Analytical thinking and problem solving
- RAIDO/risk registers
- Integrated project controls
- MS Excel
Risk Manager in Somerset employer: Systems Engineering & Assessment
At SEA, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and flexibility. With generous benefits including hybrid working arrangements, extensive training opportunities, and a strong focus on employee wellbeing, our Barnstaple, Bristol, and Beckington locations provide the perfect environment for PLM Engineers to thrive and contribute to meaningful projects that protect what matters most.
Contact Details:
Systems Engineering & Assessment Recruitment Team
