Senior Risk & Manager

Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager

Grid Solutions | HVDC Consortium Project Organisation | Stafford, UK

GE Vernova, a global leader in energy solutions, is seeking an experienced Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager to join its Grid Solutions, HVDC Consortium Project Organisation team in Stafford, United Kingdom. With over 130 years of experience, GE Vernova is accelerating the transformation to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy.

Our Electrification portfolio modernises grids, enables renewable integration and strengthens energy systems. HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) is a key technology for providing large‑scale renewable capacity across Europe. The Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager will lead end‑to‑end risk and opportunity management for a major HVDC project valued at £500 million or more, delivered within a consortium structure.

The role is a senior individual‑contributor that requires strong technical risk expertise, commercial awareness and the confidence to influence project leaders, consortium partners, clients and risk owners. You will proactively drive mitigation actions, realise opportunities and provide leadership with insight into project cost, schedule and delivery risk.

• Define, implement and continuously improve the risk and opportunity management process at consortium level, ensuring alignment with contractual frameworks and project governance.
• Own and maintain the project risk and opportunity register, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, assessed, quantified, assigned and actively managed.
• Work closely with risk owners to establish effective mitigation actions, monitor progress and drive actions to closure.
• Lead the identification, assessment and realisation of project opportunities, including cost savings, cost avoidance and wider value‑creation initiatives.
• Deliver quantitative schedule risk analysis and quantitative cost risk analysis (QSRA and QCRA) for projects and tenders, translating statistical outputs into actionable recommendations.
• Lead the project change‑control process, ensuring changes are identified, assessed, and governed with clear visibility of cost, schedule, contractual and risk implications.
• Facilitate and chair project risk reviews and workshops with project teams, consortium partners, clients and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain risk and opportunity dashboards, reports and governance information, providing senior leadership with visibility of the overall risk position.
• Review project risk allowances and associated governance metrics in accordance with established project‑governance requirements.
• Review contractual frameworks to identify obligations, liabilities and exposures requiring active risk management or approval.
• Support the validation and risk assessment of Civil Works and Erection partners.
• Implement and optimise risk‑management tools and methodologies to strengthen decision‑making.

You will be a proactive, analytically rigorous project‑risk professional with substantial experience managing risk and opportunity across large, complex projects.

• Significant experience in risk and opportunity management within EPC, energy, infrastructure or similar engineering environments.
• Experience establishing or operating risk and opportunity processes within a consortium, joint venture, alliance or multi‑party structure.
• Practical experience delivering quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis.
• Knowledge of statistical and probabilistic risk‑modelling techniques and ability to use quantitative findings to support decision‑making.
• Proficiency in Active Risk Manager – ARM and Safran Risk.
• Experience owning complex project risk registers and driving mitigation actions with senior risk owners.
• Experience with formal project change‑control processes and assessing cost, schedule, contractual and risk implications.
• Strong understanding of contractual, commercial, cost and schedule risk within large projects.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with confidence to chair governance forums and engage clients.
• A proactive, accountable…