Turner & Townsend
Risk Manager
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Job Description
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project, and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Role
We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Northwest region, based out of our Manchester office.
As a Risk Manager, you will be an integral member of the Project Controls Team, undertaking duties on high-profile infrastructure projects, across the energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities sectors.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate identification, assessment, and prioritization of threats, opportunities, and issues
- Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget, or retirement of threat/opportunity
- Assist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post-mitigated positions
- Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timeline
- Produce and present fit-for-purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.
- Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule, and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA, or similar.
- Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.
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Qualifications
We are looking for individuals who can successfully demonstrate the following capabilities:
- A working understanding of developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes, and projects
- Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitation
- Development of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk, including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA, or equivalent). However, industry-leading training will be provided.
- Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions
- It is essential that you have experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes or blue-chip clients. Project experience within energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities will be an advantage.
- Attainment or working towards IRM / APM risk certified candidates preferred.
- Candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to developing new and more effective ways of working.
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Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this, we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place, and the agency must be invited by the Recruitment Team to submit candidates for review.
Department: Infrastructure
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