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Associate Risk Manager / Project Director
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Associate Risk Manager / Project Director
# Project Director, Risk Management – Infrastructure Projects Location: London, Manchester, Birmingham & Bristol | Hybrid Work | AECOM Limited
About AECOM
Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world by improving infrastructure—whether enhancing transportation, enabling access to clean water, or transforming skylines. As the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, we partner with clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With over 50,000 employees worldwide, we're a global team united by the purpose to create impactful, sustainable outcomes. Join us and bring your bold ideas to projects shaping the future.
About the Role
"Start here, grow here."
We’re recruiting a Project Director, Risk Management to lead AECOM's risk capabilities across major infrastructure projects across buildings, places, and programme management (B&P sector), based in our UK offices (London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Bristol).
As the risk management lead, you will:
- Direct high-value projects and programmes, ensuring robust risk governance and decision-making support.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders, clients, and project teams to enhance risk awareness and alignment across supply chains.
- Lead a team of risk consultants, shaping risk frameworks and best practices for UK-based projects with opportunities to expand globally.
Responsibilities
As Project Director, your key activities include:
Strategic Leadership & Leadership
- Drive risk management for complex, high-stakes projects/programmes aligned with ISO31000 and professional risk/management methodologies.
- Responsible for quality assurance of risk practices, bidding/risk mitigations for new business.
- Foster trust by producing comprehensive risk reporting for senior leadership and decision-makers.
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Technical & Analytical Expertise
- Execute Quantitative Risk Analysis (QCRA/QSRA) using tools such as Monte-Carlo simulations, Primavera Risk Analyser, @Risk, Safran, and others.
- Design contingency models and risk mitigation strategies.
- Oversee development of Risk Registers, Management Plans, and Mitigation Strategies.
Team & Stakeholder Management
- Mentor risk teams, improving capability in risk facilitation, assessment, prioritisation.
- Engage sincerely with clients, helping align risk management with project goals and schedules.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Support cost/change management and project controls, ensuring risk inputs are integrated.
- Work closely with dynamic teams (internal/external stakeholders) to produce risk-aware plans.
Requirements
Qualifications & Certifications
- Relevant degree from a recognised university, or a risk management/certification such as MOR, APM Risk, or IRM.
- Technical Proficiency: Expert with risk tools (ARM, Xactium, RiskHive, Predict, Primavera Risk Analyser).
- Quantitative Risk Skills: Hands-on experience in Monte-Carlo, Safran@Risk, or similar analytical models.
Experience & Competence
- 10+ years in multi-disciplinary project environments with a focus on infrastructure, buildings, or programme management.
- Proven track record of leading risk functions, implementing stakeholder-driven processes.
- Travel flexibility: Ability to work across projects in different sectors and locations.
- Demonstrated agile task facilitation and team mentoring.
- Strong hard/soft skills: Accounts monitoring, APICs/Oxford Economics understanding, hybrid project control experience.
About AECOM’s Commitments
- Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate unique perspectives across genders, ethnicities, religious beliefs, sexualities, abilities, nationalities, or ages. Applications from global talent and those with disabilities in the UK/US/EU are unique to us—reach out for tailored supports at [disability-contact-emailredacted] our Disability Confident Company is here to help.
- Holistic Careers: Join a Fortune 500 firm—male/female balance, hybrid flexibility, competitive compensation, and environmental/social governance alignment. We champion ethical engaged work in a global public-trusted environment with career-wide growth.
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Looking for the Right Fit?
If you embody our integrity, pioneering mindset, and passion for infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you. Prioritise risk-driven leaders; exceptional quant analyses; and delivery success—you’ll have meaningful impact improving communities where you work.
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Note: AECOM is a global organisation, and every region may require in-person team introductions or certifications as part of internal ‘day one onboarding’ procedures. All recruitment practices are tackled seriously through firm fair hiring, and during the application process, data is kept confidential as per the Equal Employment Opportunity [EEO] Consultation Policy 2025. Please [vote-the-email] when requested to do so as a vital step under UK-related law.
Location & Office Details
City: London/FRUK 101 Primary Location and Build Cost: London – in Aldgate Tower Location Group Key: International; Work Model: Hybrid/Site-Specific/Multiple Venues Business Division: Buildings & Places ( transformative urban planning )
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