Risk Lead - Defence (Construction)

Turner & Townsend
United Kingdom
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Construction, Civil & Site EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Risk workshop facilitation","Stakeholder collaboration","Quantitative analysis","Continuous improvement"]

Lead risk delivery for a major capital programme supporting high-profile defence construction projects in the East Midlands. Implement and maintain an integrated risk management framework, facilitating risk identification, assessment, prioritisation, and management responses. Use tools and quantitative methods to profile threats/opportunities, support risk-costing and contingency decisions, produce timely risk reporting, and monitor exposure against remaining risk budgets while partnering with contractors to align risk views.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
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Risk Lead - Defence (Construction)

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Job Summary

Lead risk delivery for a major capital programme supporting high-profile defence construction projects in the East Midlands. Implement and maintain an integrated risk management framework, facilitating risk identification, assessment, prioritisation, and management responses. Use tools and quantitative methods to profile threats/opportunities, support risk-costing and contingency decisions, produce timely risk reporting, and monitor exposure against remaining risk budgets while partnering with contractors to align risk views.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Construction, Civil & Site Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement or support an integrated risk management framework across a major capital programme.
  • •Facilitate identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues within sub-programmes.
  • •Maintain visibility of risk trigger points to support risk cost profiling, risk budget drawdown, and retirement decisions.
  • •Use risk data to inform investment planning and conduct quantitative risk assessment to inform contingency levels.
  • •Produce risk reports and monitor overall risk exposure versus remaining risk budget, including completion of measurable management responses.

Key Requirements

  • •Experienced risk delivery on major projects/programmes with qualitative and quantitative risk assessment across risk, cost, and schedule.
  • •Working knowledge of an integrated risk management process and ability to facilitate risk workshops.
  • •Proficiency in probabilistic modelling using tools such as @risk and PRA (or equivalent), including P6 proficiency.
  • •Ability to apply threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation with measurable management responses and post-mitigated positions.
  • •Degree qualification in a construction-related subject; APM/IRM risk certification preferred.
Experience:ConstructionDefenceNuclear
Education:Bachelor's in construction related subject
Skills:CommunicationRisk workshop facilitationStakeholder collaborationQuantitative analysisContinuous improvement
Certifications:APM/IRM risk
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PRA@riskSafranARMPredictTableauP6Primavera P6Probabilistic modelling

Eligibility

Nationality:British National
Security Clearance:SC

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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