Risk Manager
Role Overview
The Project Risk Manager establishes, implements, and maintains risk management across complex programmes and projects.
The role covers strategic, commercial, technical, operational, schedule, cost, safety, environmental, and stakeholder risks throughout the project lifecycle.
The position works with project leadership, delivery teams, planners, commercial managers, technical specialists, and executive stakeholders.
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Role overview
The Project Risk Manager establishes, implements, and maintains risk management across complex programmes and projects.
The role covers strategic, commercial, technical, operational, schedule, cost, safety, environmental, and stakeholder risks throughout the project lifecycle.
The position works with project leadership, delivery teams, planners, commercial managers, technical specialists, and executive stakeholders.
Risk leadership and assessment
- Develop project and programme risk frameworks, plans, procedures, governance, registers, and reporting systems.
- Facilitate risk workshops, threat and opportunity reviews, scenario planning, and lessons-learned exercises across project phases.
- Assess diverse project risks consistently using qualitative and quantitative methods; identify emerging risks and changing conditions.
- Advise project leadership, promote risk awareness, and support balanced consideration of threats and opportunities.
Analysis and project controls
- Undertake quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) and quantitative cost risk analysis (QCRA).
- Conduct Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity analyses; support contingency and management reserve recommendations.
- Provide risk-adjusted forecasts and confidence assessments, and communicate statistical findings to technical and executive audiences.
- Integrate risk with planning, scheduling, cost management, change control, project forecasts, performance reporting, schedules, and budgets.
Monitoring, reporting, and governance
- Track mitigation actions, monitor risk response effectiveness and exposure, and escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.
- Produce risk dashboards, reports, heat maps, trend analyses, and executive summaries; support project and gateway reviews, assurance, and audits.
- Present risk information to teams, contractors, consultants, governance boards, and steering committees.
- Maintain documentation and audit trails, ensure governance compliance, and improve risk processes, tools, and methodologies.
Qualifications and experience
- A bachelor's degree in a related discipline or suitable experience is required.
- A professional project or risk management certification is required; examples include PMI-RMP, PMP, APM, IRM, MoR, or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
- Typically 5+ years of relevant project controls, programme management, risk management, or major project delivery experience.
- Experience with major infrastructure or capital investment programmes, risk workshops, risk registers, quantitative analysis, risk-adjusted forecasts, governance, and executive reporting.
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend works with global clients on major, technically complex projects and describes its mission as delivering better outcomes and helping people realize their potential.
The company states that it supports a flexible, productive working environment and is an equal opportunity employer.
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