Risk Engineer - Nuclear

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We work to protect our natural environment and energy resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanisation, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

The Nuclear programmes that we work on require strong risk and project controls capability to support delivery in complex and highly regulated environments. Risk Engineers enable confident decision making by facilitating risk processes, maintaining high-quality risk and assumption registers, and providing practical analysis and insight that informs contingency, mitigation, and delivery priorities.

Arcadis is seeking flexible, dynamic individuals with UK nationality required. Candidates must hold up to, or be eligible to obtain and maintain, Security Clearance (SC). Supporting highly challenging and rewarding programmes, this role requires strong analytical capability, confident facilitation, and disciplined delivery of risk outputs.

This role may be aligned to a specific delivery area or workstream and will operate across multi-disciplinary interfaces.

This role requires a flexible approach to travel, typically 2–3 days per week, depending on business needs.

To produce and maintain high-quality risk and assumption registers, deliver risk analysis outputs that inform contingency and mitigation, and provide clear risk narratives that support governance decisions and delivery confidence across complex, regulated programmes.

• As a Risk Engineer within the Nuclear team, you will be required to;
• Provide risk expertise and advice on risk and contingency management in line with agreed procedures and governance;
• Facilitate risk and assumption workshops to ensure quality risks and assumptions are identified, clearly documented, and reviewed regularly;
• Develop, maintain, and assure project, programme, or workstream risk and assumption registers, ensuring they remain current, traceable, and decision ready;
• Conduct risk identification and analysis and support development of practical mitigation actions with risk owners, actively monitoring progress and effectiveness;
• Provide quantitative risk analysis services where required, translating outputs into practical contingency and delivery confidence insight;
• Where appropriate, run risk analysis software in conjunction with integrated schedules to support quantitative analysis and scenario testing;
• Provide Schedule Quantitative Risk Analysis (SQRA) to projects and programmes, using risk analysis software alongside integrated schedules (for example PRA with Primavera P6), and translate outputs into schedule contingency and delivery confidence insight;
• Embed risk management into delivery arrangements by aligning risk outputs with planning, cost, change, and reporting cycles;
• Produce clear risk narratives that explain key drivers, impacts, trends, and recommended actions for stakeholders at different levels;
• Support assurance activities by providing evidence of risk process application, register quality, and reporting traceability;
• Support knowledge transfer and capability development, including coaching colleagues and contributing to improvements in tools, templates, and ways of working;
• The scope of accountability will be set to match experience, from hands‑on risk delivery through to leading risk governance, assurance, and continuous improvement across assignments.

Arcadis is seeking Risk Engineering professionals with experience appropriate to the complexity of…