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 people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of technical knowledge in their core area of activity.
Job Objectives:
- Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the sub-programme.
- Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely draw down of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
- Use risk data to inform investment planning
- Assist with the identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions.
- 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 assist with the effective communication of threat & opportunity status.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
- Depending on the role candidates will be expected to demonstrate basic to experienced levels of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or similar.
- Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau
Required Skills:
In order to be able to carry out the duties of the role as required, candidates will be expected to demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk, a working knowledge of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme, risk workshop facilitation, threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation, probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA and P6 proficiency – or equivalent).
- We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes. APM/IRM risk certified candidates preferred. Further, candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely engaged to finding new and more effective ways of working.