Senior Risk Manager (Rail, Highways, Aviation Projects)

January 30, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Senior Risk Manager (Rail, Highways, Aviation Projects)

Company: Arcadis

Job description: Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for an experienced Risk Manager, to join our Rail Consultancy business and work on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects. On top of this, you’ll have the opportunity to work with some exciting clients from other business sectors, including highways, aviation, new build and utilities.

You’ll work closely with project and programme teams to implement effective risk management processes, ensuring full integration with other project management and control disciplines.

Being the subject matter expert, you’ll provide support to the Service Capability Leader for Risk Management in development of risk management service capability, to include support with risk analyses, quality assurance and drafting reports and delivering scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls.

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

  • Deliver risk management services to clients in compliance with client governance, processes and objectives
  • Undertake day-to-day risk management activities including identification, assessment, management, review and reporting of risks and opportunities
  • Produce periodic risk reporting which may include profiled risk expenditure, impacted risk / contingency drawdown and risk exposure changes
  • Develop Quantitative Risk Analysis including Cost, Schedule and integrated Cost and Schedule analyses, to enable robust forecasting and tracking of risk exposure
  • Use knowledge and experience to ensure identification and management of all significant risks to achievement of project objectives
  • Deliver discrete risk interventions and embedded risk management services
  • Act as an ambassador for risk management, coaching others in the requirements, processes and benefits of risk management

Qualifications & Experience:

Of course, with this being such a specialist role, there are a few “must haves” we’d like to see on your CV…

  • A relevant professional qualification such as APM Risk Certificate or IRM Certificate
  • Experience in the construction or infrastructure sectors
  • Experience in the application of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) techniques and tools, for example: @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis (previously Pertmaster), Safran including the analysis of complex logic-linked cost-loaded schedules
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management tools, for example, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict! and Xactium
  • Understanding of construction contracts and the relationship between risk management and controls/management functions including project management, change control, planning and scheduling, cost and commercial management and reporting
  • Evidence of previous experience in definition and delivery of risk management plans within projects
  • Collaborative working style and consulting style approach to clients
  • A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects
  • Awareness of Value Management processes and techniques
  • Experience delivering risk management at Programme or Strategic levels

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Expected salary:

Location: London

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