SYSTRA UK & Ireland
Risk Manager
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Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.
For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving, and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility, and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 8,250 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.
Role Overview
The Risk Manager is responsible for leading the identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of risks across transport and infrastructure projects. The role ensures that strategic, operational, financial, regulatory, safety, and project risks are effectively managed to support project objectives, maintain compliance and promote resilient decision making.
This position plays a key role in embedding a strong risk management culture across the project, ensuring that risks are understood, reported clearly, and managed proactively throughout the lifecycle.
With a focus on the design of high-speed rail infrastructure, the Risk Manager may also support other markets in the UK and overseas.
Main Duties
- Develop and maintain project risk management frameworks, policies, processes and procedures.
- Identify, assess, monitor, and report project operational and compliance risks.
- Facilitate risk workshops and risk reviews to ensure risks and opportunities are identified and assessed.
- Maintain and update risk registers, ensuring risks, controls, actions and owners are clearly recorded.
- Track mitigation actions and monitor the effectiveness of risk controls and treatment plans.
- Escalate significant, emerging or unmanaged risks to senior management where appropriate.
- Provide risk analysis, insight and recommendations to support informed decision-making across projects.
- Prepare accurate risk reports, dashboards and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Support project teams and clients in developing practical solutions to manage and reduce risk exposure.
- Work closely with project leadership, engineering teams, technical specialists, 3S teams and other stakeholders on risk-related matters.
- Ensure risk management activities are aligned with project objectives, governance requirements and delivery priorities.
- Support incident reviews, lessons learned activities and business continuity planning where relevant.
- Promote risk awareness and provide guidance and training to embed good risk management practice across the organisation.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards and contractual requirements.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, contractors, and other external stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
- Promote continuous improvement in risk management processes, tools and reporting.
- Demonstrate behaviours that support collaboration, respect, excellence and empowerment.
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Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Proven experience managing risk within infrastructure, construction or other large-scale project environments.
- Demonstrable experience in risk management or a closely related project controls discipline.
- Experience facilitating workshops to identify, assess, mitigate and review risks with multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and translate it into clear risk insights.
- Experience undertaking qualitative risk analysis and quantified cost risk analysis.
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word, with competence in PowerPoint for presentations.
- Competence using risk databases or risk management systems to maintain accurate records and support reporting.
- Recognised risk management or project management certification, such as APM Project Management, PMI-RMP or equivalent.
- PRINCE2 or equivalent project management certification.
- IRM Risk Certificate or equivalent risk qualification.
- Lean Management or Six Sigma certification.
- Member of relevant institution (PMI, APM desirable).
Desirable
- Advanced Excel skills for data analysis, modelling and reporting.
- Experience using tools such as Primavera Risk Analysis, Palisade @RISK, Xactium, ARM and Power BI.
- Experience undertaking quantified schedule risk analysis.
- Understanding of project planning and its integration with risk management, change control and reporting processes.
Why SYSTRA?
Our three core values: Excellence, Connected Teams and Bold Leadership are kept at the heart of everything we do. We strive for the highest levels of technical excellence, achieving the best results through teamwork, both locally and internationally, and reward innovative thinking through encouraging all colleagues to think as leaders. We offer clear and well supported pathways for career development and qualification attainment, a competitive remuneration package including a bonus and private healthcare, an electric car scheme and a broad suite of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
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Flexibility
Because we value who you are as much as what you do, we want you to feel supported at work. We offer hybrid working, balancing the benefits of working from home with time in our modern, well-equipped offices for that crucial in-person contact, team development and collaborative working. We also recognise that life doesn’t always run to the same schedule for everyone, so we have a dedicated flexible working policy to support you in tailoring your work life to reach your full potential, for more details on this, please get in touch.
Diversity & Inclusion
We provide a warm welcome and encourage applications from a diverse range of people who can enrich our company and offer perspectives which will drive better solutions in a truly inclusive environment. Our employee led working groups and clearly defined strategy help us to keep at the leading edge of important issues and keep us accountable. We want our colleagues to feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work and continually seek new ideas and contributions to ensure we continue to grow and develop in this space.
Wellbeing
It’s no surprise that people do their best work when they feel physically and mentally supported. Our SYSTRA Wellness Programme offers a wide range of support; from Wellness champions to free health checks, healthy eating workshops and regular seminars, alongside access to a wide range of external support. We offer two paid days for charity work and an ever-growing social calendar.
Apply and find out more about how SYSTRA can support you in your career journey. If you require any adjustments or financial assistance to support you in your application or interview process please email: reasonableadjustments@systra.com where your request will be treated confidentially and with respect. We pledge to offer an interview to any candidates with a disability who apply for a role and meet the minimum criteria.
As we are always looking to expand our team, we would still be interested in hearing from you if you fulfil most, but not all, of the relevant criteria for the role and if you are a returner looking to restart your career after a period outside the workplace – you could be just what we are looking for.
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