Senior Project Controls - Risk - Defence in Manchester

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At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 246 offices worldwide.

The Defence Infrastructure Cost Centre provides support to projects that range in complexity and size with our service offerings spanning across Programme and Project Management, Project Planning, Cost Engineering, Risk Management, and Commercial Disciplines. We provide support to the full project lifecycle both pre‑contract and post‑contract, delivering infrastructure projects on behalf of our clients, that range from several hundred thousand pounds in value to major projects and programmes worth over £200M.

Due to growing client requirements, we are actively looking to expand the team and have talented individuals join us who will support our Defence client portfolio, whilst further developing their career, working on a range of complex and challenging commissions.

We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of risk management in their core area of activity. Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in multiple sectors including Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.

We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on projects/programmes to support the implementation of an integrated risk management process across a Project Delivery environment. Applicants preferably should have experience within a Defence setting, but not limited to.

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the Project through workshops and directly supporting project teams.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling and retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Use risk data to inform planning.
• Assist with the identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions.
• Monitor or support overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget.
• Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
• Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status.
• Support quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• A reasonable level of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or familiarity with web‑based database tools – ARM, Predict or Power‑BI.

• Have a degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and relevant experience in a risk delivery role.
• Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Institute of Risk Managers or Project Management Institute.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk.
• Threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation.
• A working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme.
• Awareness of governance and policy guidance including IRM.
• MOR/APM/IRM risk certified.

Owing to the specialist and sensitive nature of the work that we carry out for a number of our clients, candidates will ideally hold security clearance or be able to obtain & maintain security clearance, through being a sole UK National.

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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