Senior Risk Manager Defence

At Turner & Townsend, we’re 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 110 offices worldwide.

Turner & Townsend within the UK has a wide range of key clients in various sectors, including Health, Local Authorities, Higher Education, Highways, Utilities, Rail, and Defence. Our diverse portfolio of clients provides our team members with unique and rewarding opportunities to gain experience across a broad range of major programmes and projects.

Turner & Townsend are a key Tier 1 supplier of project and programme management services to the Ministry of Defence and strategic Defence suppliers in the UK. We play a crucial role in supporting the defence of the United Kingdom, whilst ensuring our clients achieve better outcomes.

Already holding SC Clearance is desirable however we advise that if you feel you would be a great candidate for this role, please apply.

THE OPPORTUNITY

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.

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 experts to support with the identification and regular updates of risks and uncertainties specific to the project objectives.
• Maintenance of project and programme risk registers and other additional risk information including maintaining quality control of risk data and reporting.
• Drive the need and 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.
• Working with other Project…