Risk Manager​/Senior Risk Manager

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Location/s: Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Warrington, Derby, London UK
Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We deliver exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We’re looking for talented risk management professionals to shape and safeguard complex Construction and Infrastructure projects across a range of dynamic sectors — including Transport, Defence, Water, Buildings, and Energy.

• Undertake assurance reviews of risk deliverables and methodologies to confirm conformance to best practice.
• Experience informing the development of Business Cases, Investment Decisions and Appraisals, including assuring the quality of risk evidence.
• Work as a consultant within a client environment, embedding expertise into their teams.
• Coach, develop and supervise project staff and share knowledge and expertise.
• Build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

• Implement risk management processes aligned with ISO
  31000/Institute of Risk Management/Association of Project Management methodologies on complex Construction and Infrastructure projects.
• Initiate, develop and implement risk management processes.
• Facilitate risk workshops as part of the overall delivery of the risk process.
• Conduct regular risk reviews to maintain a project risk register and ensure that the project risk profile is accurate and current.
• Undertake quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis techniques.
• Produce appropriate risk management reports to inform decision making.
• Awareness of industry risk management tools such as ARM, Xactium, Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, @Risk, Risk Predict!
• Understand how risk management integrates with other Project Management and Project Controls disciplines including cost estimating, project planning and contract administration.
• Implement effective risk management activities to actively reduce risk exposure and uncertainty on projects & programmes.
• Support development and implementation of risk management approaches/systems for clients, incorporating best practice and procedures.
• Facilitate workshops and engage with project teams to ensure effective implementation of risk management.
• Work closely with planners to understand delivery expectations, identify potential risks and link risks to schedule activities.

• Good research and analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and organisation skills.
• Effective listening, persuasion, collaborative style, leadership, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity and insightfulness.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels…