At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead risk management processes and enhance project outcomes in the energy sector.
- Company: Join Turner & Townsend, a global leader in consultancy with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible working environment, career growth, and the chance to work on major projects.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace that values your contributions and promotes work-life balance.
- Why this job: Be part of a rapidly growing team and make a real impact in the natural resources sector.
- Qualifications: Experience in risk management and strong communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Job Description
At Turner & Townsend, our award‑winning Controls & Performance team focus on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes.
Our national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals offers opportunities to grow your knowledge and career.
The Opportunity
Turner & Townsend’s Natural Resources business has grown 35% in the last 9 months and is set to triple in size over the next 3 years.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources and New Energies team, undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high‑profile projects/programmes.
This role offers the chance to innovate, collaborate, and learn from our experienced and award‑winning Risk Management community and wider Controls & Performance network.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailored to the client’s needs and aligned 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.
- Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
- Assist the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, supporting post‑mitigated positions.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessment and analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule impacts to support understanding of the project’s remaining risk exposure.
- Produce timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft Power Point, Word, Excel and Power BI.
- Work with Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
- Work with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.
Qualifications
- The Candidate
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders.
- Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
- Proactive approach and excellent problem‑solving capabilities.
- Strategic awareness and critical thinking with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.
- Ability to manage effective relationships with stakeholders and interfacing functions.
- Ability to interpret client requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Maintains awareness of current industry risk, emerging risk and best practice.
- Makes positive change happen, embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
- A UK driving licence or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience in managing risk in multiple projects/programmes or relevant experience in a similar risk role or environment is essential.
- Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) is essential.
- Familiarity with at least one risk tool is essential.
- Awareness of quantitative risk assessment (Monte‑Carlo) technique is essential.
- Understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Risk Management is desirable.
- A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (Mo R) is desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts.
- Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is a leading consultancy provider with over 110 offices globally.
We provide professional services on major, complex projects across the Infrastructure, Defence, Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors.
Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver.
Our people get to work on some of the most exciting major projects in the world.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process.
No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
- Project Risk Manager – Energy & Natural Resources
- Full‑time • Bristol, ENG, GB
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