Project Risk Manager - Energy & Natural Resources

Project Risk Manager - Energy & Natural Resources

At Turner & Townsend
, our award‑winning Controls & Performance team is focused on driving innovation and delivering better programme outcomes. Our growing national team of over 600 professionals provides great opportunities to enhance your knowledge and career.

Turner & Townsend’s Natural Resources business has grown 35% in the last 9 months and is set to triple in size over the next 3 years. We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Manager to join our fast‑growing Natural Resources and New Energies team, undertaking Controls & Performance duties on several high‑profile Projects/Programmes.

• Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailored to the client’s needs and best practice.
• Facilitating risk workshops with subject matter experts.
• Creating and maintaining risk registers and other risk-related information.
• Challenging risk information to enhance quality and robustness.
• Driving implementation of mitigation actions across projects and programmes.
• Assisting the project team with identification and development of measurable, specific management responses.
• Conducting Quantitative Risk Assessment and analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule impacts.
• Producing timely risk reports using Microsoft Office and Power BI.
• Co‑ordinating with Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
• Working with supply chain to incorporate associated risks.

• Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to stakeholders.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
• Proactive problem‑solving capabilities.
• Strategic awareness and critical thinking to assess implications of risk scenarios.
• Managing effective relationships with stakeholders and interfacing functions.
• Interpreting client requirements and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Maintaining awareness of current industry risk, emerging risk and best practice.
• Embracing challenges and opportunities to drive positive change.
• Possession of a UK driving licence or willingness to travel to client sites in the region.

• Experience managing risk in multiple projects/programmes or a similar risk role.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard/approach (ISO
  31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA).
• Familiarity with at least one risk tool.
• Awareness of Quantitative Risk Assessment (Monte‑Carlo) technique.
• Understanding of how Project Controls elements (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Risk Management (desirable).
• A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) (desirable).
• Familiarity with NEC contracts.

Turner & Townsend is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Strategy/Planning and Consulting

Construction, Civil Engineering, Business Consulting and Services