Risk and Change Manager

Job Title:

Risk and Change Manager
Reporting to:
Project Controls Director

Location:

Bristol for a minimum of three (3) days per week, with occasional travel to meetings as required

Founded in 2011 under the brand Simply Blue Group, Simply Blue Energy (SBE) was formally established in 2025 to recognise Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.’s ("KEPCO") Share Subscription Agreement with Simply Blue Energy (OSW) Ltd, the offshore wind division of Simply Blue Group.

Our offshore wind portfolio comprising 12 GW of fixed and floating offshore wind includes Erebus, a 100 MW test and demonstration project, which was awarded a Contract for Difference (CfD) in 2026. The portfolio also comprises Salamander, Emerald, Western Star and Aird Mhòr na Mara in Ireland, as well as projects in Spain and Portugal developed under the Iber Blue Wind platform.

Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Simply Blue Energy combines deep technical expertise, innovation and strong stakeholder engagement to advance the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future. With dedicated teams operating from offices in Dublin, Belfast, Newquay, Pembrokeshire, Edinburgh, Bilbao, and Nova Scotia, Simply Blue Energy is strategically positioned to deliver large-scale renewable energy projects.

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Erebus is a world leading 100 MW test and demonstration floating offshore wind project located off the coast of Pembroke and is being developed by Simply Blue Energy’s Blue Gem Wind project company. Erebus was awarded a CfD in Allocation Round 7 and as a fully consented project now enters late-stage development, targeting a COD in 2030. The project is progressing through project finance structuring towards Financial Close.

The Risk and Change Manager will be primarily seconded into the Erebus project, where they will support the project now and into execution. The role will integrate project risk, design risk, CDM and change management across the project.

Within Erebus, the role will lead the effective management of project risk, design risk, CDM and change, ensuring that safety, compliance, effective risk management and robust change control are embedded throughout the design and project lifecycle. The role will support Blue Gem Wind in discharging its responsibilities as Client and Principal Designer, ensuring compliance with the CDM Regulations and that design risks are identified, assessed, communicated and managed effectively.

Working collaboratively with designers, contractors and internal stakeholders, the role will ensure that project risks and changes are identified early, appropriately assessed and reflected across project documentation, programmes, budgets, risk registers and strategic decisions. A key focus will be embedding a proactive approach to design risk and change management, ensuring that potential impacts are identified early, appropriately challenged and that robust decisions are made, recorded and implemented.

Alongside its primary focus on Erebus, the role will contribute to the wider PES function, sharing expertise, lessons learned and best practice to strengthen risk, design risk and change management capability across other projects and the wider organisation.

• Project & Commercial Risk Management
• Manage programme risk, maintaining visibility of schedule-critical risks (e.g. contractor delay, consenting timelines, certification sequencing) and their interface with the project's critical path/decision calendar
• Own and maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are identified, scored, owned, and mitigated across all work streams (commercial, technical, consenting, land, finance).
• Facilitate regular risk workshops…