Associate Director - Risk - Defence

We have exciting opportunity for an Associate Director level, to join our vibrant busy and expanding Defence team we are seeking a highly developed capable Risk Manager ideally with QRA experience, based in our Southwest and Wales Defence team, we are undertaking duties on a range of high profile projects across the Region and across the UK.

Owing to the complex nature of the works involved, this role will suit Risk Manager with Project or Programme delivery experience from a rail/aviation, water/utilities, highways, defence or nuclear background with proven experience and understanding of the processes to be based in our Bristol Office. 

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

Implement or support the implementation of an integrated risk management framework across a major capital programme or project. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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 drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning or business case development.                                                     
•  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 contingency or 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 & opportunity status.   
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• Candidates will be expected to demonstrate experienced levels of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or similar.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Risk Hive, Tableau and Power BI

Further, candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to finding new and more effective ways of working.