Senior Risk Manager- Energy & Natural Resources in Leiston

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

Job Description

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding, South East based Energy & Natural Resources team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects and Programmes. This role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Risk Management community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading teams of Risk Management professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value adding risk management interventions across diverse and complex project/programmes.
• Planning, designing, and implementing risk management processes; tailoring to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
• Driving continuous improvement in Risk Management (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and improving benefits realisation for our clients.
• Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust, stands up to scrutiny and is reflective of the project environment.
• Leading the implementation, embedding and roll‑out of any identified changes to Risk Management approaches.
• Acting as the risk subject matter expert on a major project or programme.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
• Designing and delivering risk training, including coaching clients and less experienced team members in risk management processes and practices.
• Design, set‑up and facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts to aid identification and regular updates of risks and uncertainties.
• Maintenance of project and programme risk registers and other additional risk information including maintaining quality control of risk data and reporting.
• Drive the justification/agreement, implementation and tracking of measurable and specific mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
• Actively articulating and promoting the benefits and requirement of Risk Management with the project and programme team.
• Lead Quantitative Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis activities (QSRA/QCRA), including risk modelling, interpreting and communicating the outputs to determine where focus should be applied to benefit the project.
• Supporting efficient contingency forecasting and drawdown processes.
• Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.
• Supporting T&T’s recruitment activities to grow and develop the risk management and project controls capability.
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.
• Contribute to the national and regional risk communities including Community of Practice.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing risk in multiple projects/programmes across a range of industries and sector is essential.
• Experience in defining, improving, and/or implementing Risk Management approaches is essential.
• Familiarity with several risk standards or approaches (ISO31000, APM PRAM, Orange Book, IPA) and their application is essential.
• Practical experience of Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis techniques, including the interpretation of their key outputs is essential.
• Experience using one or more of the popular QRA software options (Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran etc) is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one risk database tool (ARM, Predict!, Risk Controller, riskHive, Xactium) is desirable.
• Experience and understanding of the wider project controls disciplines (schedule, cost, reporting) is essential.
• A risk qualification such as from the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Association for Project Management (APM), or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable.
• Experience in leading/managing a team is desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC3/4 contracts is desirable.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.