Job Description
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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.
Please find out more about us at: https://www.turnerandtownsend.com/en/about-us/our-purpose-and-values/
Job Description
The Opportunity
Turner & Townsend's Natural Resources business has grown 35% in the last 9 months and is set triple in size over the next 3 years. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources and New Energies team who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects/Programmes. Additionally, 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
Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider risk management team or independently with reach back support to experienced risk professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Leading teams of Risk Management professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value adding risk management across diverse and complex project/ programme.
- 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 increasing benefits to our clients.
- Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust, stands up to scrutiny and reflective of the project environment.
- Supporting the implementation, embedding and roll-out of any identified changes to Risk Management approaches.
- Acting as the risk subject matter expert in 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, coaching clients and less experienced team members in risk management processes and practices.
- Design, set-up and facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter.
- Maintenance of project and programme risk registers and other additional risk information including maintaining quality control of risk data and reporting.
- Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
- Assist the project team with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific.
- Actively articulating and promoting the benefits and requirement of Risk Management with the project and programme team.
- Manage Quantitative Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis activities (QSRA/QCRA) and interpreting the outputs to determine where focus should be applied to benefit the project.
- Supporting efficient contingency drawdown processes.
- Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.
- Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.
- Contribute to the national and regional risk communities including Community of Practice.
Qualifications
The Candidate
Skills and behaviours
- Strategic thinking to develop effective risk management plans, leadership skills to guide their team.
- Showcase a high standard of integrity and play a key role in maintaining ethical standards and ensuring compliance.
- Adaptable with the ability to provide robust guidance during periods of change and complexity.
- Effective decision making with an enhanced ability to assess risks, prioritise actions and make informed choices for the benefit of the organisation.
- Excellent problem-solving ability to identify, analyse and solve complex risk related problems.
- Ability to manage effective relationships with strategic stakeholders and interfacing functions.
- Ability to effectively interpret client requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
- Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
- A UK driving license 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.
- Experience in defining, improving, or implementing Risk Management approaches is essential.
- Familiarity with several risk standards or approaches (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) and their application is essential.
- Experience of Quantitative Risk Analysis (Monte-Carlo) techniques, including the interpretation of their key outputs is essential.
- Familiarity with at least one risk tool (ARM, Predict!, Risk Controller, riskHive, Xactium) is desirable.
- Practical experience of QRA in a similar environment is essential with at least one of the popular software options (Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran etc) is desirable.
- Experience of interfacing risk with other Project Controls disciplines is desirable.
- A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2, IRM or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts
Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is a leading consultancy provider with over 110 offices globally, we make the difference by providing 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. As a result, our people get to enjoy working 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 actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Additionally, 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.
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