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Risk Manager – Construction Projects
Associated British Ports. Support project teams in identifying, assessing, managing and reporting risks and opportunities .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in risk management for complex infrastructure and capital projects, integrating risk with cost, schedule, and governance while fostering a proactive risk culture. Proficient in facilitating risk workshops and improving risk management maturity across project portfolios.
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Risk ManagementRisk IdentificationStakeholder EngagementQuantitative Risk AnalysisAPM/IRM/PMI Certification
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Hard Skills
Risk AssessmentMitigation PlanningRisk ReportingRisk RegistersCost Risk AnalysisSchedule Risk AnalysisDecision-Making IntegrationRisk Workshop FacilitationRisk Culture DevelopmentProject Controls
Soft Skills
CommunicationFacilitationStakeholder EngagementConstructive ChallengeInfluencing
Tools & Technologies
MS OfficeRisk DatabasesProject Controls Reporting Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
APMIRMPMIACostE
Industry Keywords
Infrastructure ProjectsConstructionEngineeringCapital ProjectsRisk MaturityGovernanceStage-Gate Decision-MakingContingency PlanningBaseline Personnel Security StandardSubstance-Abuse Screening
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Support project teams in identifying, assessing, managing and reporting risks and opportunities
- Provide risk assurance and mature early-stage risk information into credible allowances, forecasts and decision-support insight
- Establish, maintain and improve risk management arrangements across the Major Projects portfolio
- Standardise and embed risk management processes, registers, scoring approaches, reporting requirements and governance behaviours
- Maintain risk management templates, guidance, process flows and quality expectations aligned to ABP governance, the Project Lifecycle Process and portfolio reporting requirements
- Champion an active risk culture in which project teams own risks, manage actions and use risk information for decision-making
- Facilitate early-stage risk identification, including development and DEVEX risks, assumptions, interfaces, constraints and critical uncertainties
- Support feasibility, concept and developed design stages by maturing risks into assessed threats and opportunities with ownership, controls, response actions and escalation routes
- Help projects develop risk maturity for CAPEX risk allowances and stage-gate decision-making
- Facilitate risk workshops, reviews and deep dives with project teams, consultants, contractors and functional specialists
- Integrate risk information with schedule, cost, change control, early warning and compensation event processes
- Advise on risk allowances, contingency drawdown, risk response planning and movement between risk, issue, change and forecast positions
- Coach Project Controllers and project teams to improve risk literacy and consistent risk management behaviours
- Support AI and automation opportunities for recurring risk reporting, trend analysis and data-to-narrative outputs
Requirements
What you’ll need- Demonstrable experience in risk management on complex infrastructure, construction, engineering or capital projects
- Strong practical knowledge of risk identification, assessment, ownership, mitigation planning, reporting, risk workshops and escalation processes
- Ability to integrate risk with cost, schedule, change control, governance and project decision-making
- Experience reviewing and challenging consultant or contractor risk outputs, including risk registers, quantified outputs where appropriate and mitigation/action plans
- Experience improving risk management maturity and embedding standard risk processes across a portfolio
- Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including ability to challenge constructively and influence project teams
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office, risk registers/databases and project controls reporting tools
- Full UK driving licence required
- Experience supporting development and delivery of capital infrastructure projects above £20m
- Experience with quantitative cost and/or schedule risk analysis, risk allowances and stage-gate investment decision support
- Professional qualification or membership in APM, IRM, PMI, ACostE or equivalent risk/project controls body
- Successful candidates must consent to pre-employment screening to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
- Successful candidates must undergo random substance-abuse screening and a medical before starting
Benefits
Comp & perks- Generous remuneration package
- Employer pension
- Private health insurance
- Random substance-abuse screening and pre-employment medical as part of employment process