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Risk Manager
Job Description: Risk Manager (Defence Project) – Assystem
About Assystem
Assystem is an international company dedicated to accelerating the energy transition globally.
With 7,500 professionals across 12 countries, we connect expertise to deliver low-carbon energy solutions through engineering, project management, and digital innovation. Ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering, we work in highly regulated sectors, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency in critical infrastructure projects.
Our mission: to ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.
Your Mission
Join our Defence project as a Risk Manager, providing key risk expertise to a Joint Project Team driving an infrastructure programme forward.
As a Risk Manager, you will:
- Lead risk identification, analysis, and mitigation across the project lifecycle.
- Report directly to the ** Programme Delivery Lead**.
- Collaborate with clients, site teams, and industry partners to manage risks in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Requires strong project delivery and risk management skills, with experience in major infrastructure projects and stakeholder alignment.
What You’ll Do
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the risk management process, including defining the roadmap and Target Operating Model (TOM).
- Facilitate monthly risk reviews and workshops; manage risk registers and dashboards for real-time tracking. 📊
- Support Quantitative Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis (QCRA/QSRA) and ensure quarterly reporting is comprehensive and compliant. 💸⏱️
- Manage project assumptions and maintain the Master Data & Assumptions List (MDAL). 📚
- Track mitigation plans to ensure risks are addressed and actions delivered on time. 🔍
- Collaborate with project leads, suppliers, and external partners to mitigate overlap, align priorities, and enhance delivery.
- Monitor supply chain performance, identifying emerging risks early to safeguard project execution. 🚀
- Ensure compliance with client processes and infrastructure regulations. 🛠️
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Qualifications
Essential Requirements
✔️ Security clearance (SC) held and available for site work (3–4 days/week). 🛡️ ✔️ Strong expertise in risk management processes and methodology. ✔️ Ability to analyse data, identify trends, and conceptualise high-level risk strategies. 🔎 ✔️ Proven experience in infrastructure risk analysis, with a focus on nebula risks and regulatory compliance. ✔️ Outstanding leadership, organisation, and stakeholder management skills. 🤝 ✔️ Proficient IT skills, including data-handling tools and project management software.
Desirable Skills
⭐ Industry knowledge (including competitors and adversaries) to provide strategic risk insights. ⭐ Strong executive communication skills for presenting concerns at a strategic level. 🎤 ⭐ Agile and adaptive mindset, responsive to dynamic changes in the project environment. 🔄 ⭐ Experience managing risks in live, ambiguous operational environments. ⭐ Ability to collaborate seamlessly across multi-agency teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
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Key Benefits
🔹 Career progression opportunities across five business functions (operations, project, technical, sales, support). 🔹 Access to global, impactful projects that drive real change. 🔹 Employee assistance programme, including wellbeing, mindfulness, 24/7 health support (by phone/text), and discreet counselling. 🔹 Enhanced perks: discount vouchers, eye-test/glasses allowances, cycle-to-work scheme, free flu vaccinations. 🔹 Generous enhanced sick pay policies.
Diversity & Inclusion
We foster a culture of equality, inclusion, and diversity, believing that diverse teams solve the most challenging problems. Skills, talent, and courage above all—your unique perspective welcome.
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