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Risk Management - All Levels
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Risk Management - All Levels
Risk Manager – Project Controls Team at Turner & Townsend
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 employees across 60+ countries. As innovation partners to real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources clients, we deliver impactful outcomes that enhance people’s lives. Our capabilities span programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement & supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.
Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., Turner & Townsend and CBRE collaborate to provide premier project, programme, and cost management worldwide.
Visit us: www.turnerandtownsend.com
The Role: Risk Manager (Project Controls Team)
We are seeking a Risk Manager to join our Project Controls Team based in our Manchester office within the Northwest region. This role will support high-profile infrastructure projects across energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities.
Key Responsibilities
As a Risk Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats and opportunities across projects
- Maintaining visibility of risk/opportunity triggers to manage cost profiling, risk budgets, and timely interventions
- Developing and assessing actionable mitigation strategies for risks and opportunities
- Monitoring overall risk exposure, aligning with budgets and timelines
- Delivering timely risk reports to ensure senior management awareness and action
- Understanding quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule, and integrated) to inform project contingencies
- Working with risk assessment tools (Safran, @Risk, PRA) from basic to practitioner level
- Managing web-based systems (ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI) for risk evaluation and reporting
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Special Consideration
- SOX compliance responsibilities may apply in relevant projects.
Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
- Proven experience in integrated risk management for major projects, programmes, or blue-chip clients
- Ability to conduct risk and scenario analysis workshops
- Expertise in proactive risk mitigation and opportunity exploitation
- Basic-practitioner competence in quantitative risk analysis (e.g., @Risk, PRA), with training provided
- Strong understanding of Project Controls Methodology and risk-asset interactions
- Proven experience in energy, renewables, defence, rail, or utilities sectors preferred
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Commitment to fostering innovation and continuous improvement
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Preferred Qualifications
- IRM / APM risk certification (or active pursuit)
- Hands-on experience in structured risk mitigation frameworks across project lifecycles
Our Commitment
At Turner & Townsend, we value our people as drivers of innovation and growth. We offer: ✔ A supportive culture where you can contribute to meaningful change ✔ Flexible and healthy work-life balance policies ✔ Diverse, inclusive workplaces—encouraging applications from all backgrounds ✔ Competitive benefits aligned with professional development
We are not willing to accept any fee payments—neither from candidates nor recruitment agencies—under our policy.
Next Steps
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