About the role
This position involves managing and potentially leading risk services across various commissions, providing expert delivery, leadership, and guidance within the Project Management Office (PMO), Planning Centre of Excellence, and assigned Hub. You will support teams to effectively manage risk, drive consistent standards, and contribute to successful outcomes for clients and stakeholders.
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Your responsibilities will include:
- Champion safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, and responsible delivery across every project.
- Deliver projects through clear planning, quality systems, and strong stakeholder collaboration.
- Supervise change and commercial performance with integrity.
- Lead teams to achieve KPIs, share best practices, and unlock potential across the organization.
- Lead risk management strategy, frameworks, and performance across assigned commissions.
- Advise clients, teams, and stakeholders, building trusted relationships and driving effective risk processes.
- Facilitate workshops, reporting, and quantitative risk analysis to manage exposure and contingency.
- Lead, mentor, and resource teams while supporting integrated PMO, planning, and net zero outcomes.
You’ll need to have:
- Experience of effective risk leadership on complex construction projects.
- Experience of setting up effective risk management/assurance frameworks/strategies.
- Comprehensive knowledge of risk tools, techniques, and software (e.g., Active Risk Manager, riskHive, @risk, Primavera Risk Analyser).
- Ability to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcome.
- Practical knowledge and application of opportunities related to risk/data analytics, Power BI, and other reporting suite tools.
- Basic knowledge of tools, techniques, and software that interfaces with the risk discipline (e.g., planning tools, Astra, P6, MS Project).
- Good understanding of construction projects, dependencies, and interfaces within the project lifecycle.
- Deep domain knowledge of providing risk leadership in one or more sectors (e.g., rail, highways, nuclear, public sector, hospitals).
- Experience of working client-side as well as in consultancy.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to form effective working relationships.
- Ability to collaborate with and influence others.
- Proven ability to articulate complex information and ideas for a non-technical audience.
- Ability to work in a highly pressurised environment, managing multiple priorities.
- Manages, influences, and negotiates with senior stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to delve deeply into topics.
- Creating and delivering persuasive and engaging presentations to a wide range of audiences in the industry.
- Commercial awareness and business development skills and experience in winning work.
- Effective communication and engagement skills, able to persuade/influence colleagues and stakeholders.
- Effective networking skills.
- Ability to contribute to the establishment of high-performing teams.
- Ability to lead and influence others, and manage challenging behaviours and relationships, while securing positive outcomes.
- Resilient and robust in the face of challenging situations.
- Flexible, pragmatic, and adaptable.
- Extensive experience or equivalent delivering a range of project risk management services on major construction projects.
- Relevant university degree (e.g., risk management, engineering) or equivalent.
- Chartered (or equivalent) membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g., Association of Project Managers, Institute of Risk Management).
Our values
- Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of well-being in every team.
- Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables and strategic outcomes and build long-term relationships with our clients.
- Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a culture of continuous improvement throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
This organization is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
