Project Controls Manager - Risk

Description:

Our client are a leading engineering consultancies, offering professional consultancy services across a number of infrastructure marketplaces across the length and breadth of the UK. They have excellent client relationships and as such, can offer candidates the opportunity to work on some of the largest and most prestigious projects in the market.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in Highways, Utilities, Rail and Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.

We are seeking experienced Projects Controls Risk Managers with proven experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes.

The responsibilities of the Projects Controls Risk Managers include, but are not limited to:

Facilitate identification, assessment, mitigation and prioritisation of threats, opportunities within a programme.
Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk exposure profiling, timely draw down of risk contingency or retirement of threat/opportunity.
Use risk data to inform funding decisions and annual planning cycles.
Understanding or proven application of change management process for impacted threats and opportunities to the Project Management Baseline.
Support Project Managers with identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, to inform the post mitigated positions.
Drive a proactive approach to the achievement of management responses to help deliver target positions and reduce exposure.
Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget.
Proactively manage the completion of management responses to help deliver target positions.
Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunities.
Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.

QUALIFICATIONS
Substantial experience (10+) years in project controls management on major infrastructure projects
Educated to at least degree level, or equivalent training and experience
Chartered status or equivalent qualification, APM/IRM risk certified candidates preferred
Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk
Working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme
Threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation
Probabilistic modelling PRA and P6 proficiency - or equivalent)
Risk workshop facilitation
Excellent presentation, influencing and facilitation skills
Strong numerical and analytical skills
Promotion of equality in the workplace and adoption of appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues
Expected to demonstrate experienced levels of competence with tools such as Safran or similar
Familiarity with web-based database tools - ARM, Predict, Tableau
Computer literacy in Microsoft applications, Business Intelligence (BI) tools and Knowledge and Proficiency with other project control software

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