Project Risk Manager - Energy & Natural Resources

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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 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.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider risk management team responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailoring to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
• Facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts.
• Creation and maintenance of risk registers and other risk information.
• Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust.
• Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
• Assist the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, that support the post mitigated positions.
• Conduct Quantitative Risk Assessment and analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule impacts to support the understanding of the project’s remaining risk exposure.
• The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and excel) and Power BI.
• Working with Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
• Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.

• Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
• Proactive approach ad excellent problem-solving capabilities.
• Strategic awareness and critical thinker with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.
• Ability to manage effective relationships with stakeholders and interfacing functions.
• Ability to interpret client requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Maintains awareness of current industry risk, emerging risk and best practice.
• Makes positive change happen, 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.

• Experience in managing risk in multiple projects/programmes or relevant experience in a similar risk role or environment is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO
  31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one risk tool is essential.
• Awareness of Quantitative Risk Assessment (Monte-Carlo) technique is essential.
• An understanding of how other aspects of…