Senior Risk Lead - Energy Sector

Due to increased demand across the Energy & Natural Resources sector, our North West team is expanding and looking to appoint experienced Risk Managers / Risk Leads to support a major nuclear programme.

This is an opportunity to join a high-profile, complex infrastructure programme at the forefront of industry transformation, working within a collaborative and growing delivery environment. We are keen to engage with individuals who bring strong project/programme risk expertise, particularly within regulated or capital-intensive industries. Candidates will be required to be on-site in Warrington 3 days per week.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE: 

The Risk Manager / Risk Lead will be responsible for the identification, assessment, and management of risks and assumptions across projects and programmes of varying scale and complexity. The role combines hands-on delivery of risk management activities with a broader remit to support risk process improvement, stakeholder engagement, and integrated project controls. You will play a key role in ensuring risks are effectively understood, managed, and communicated to support successful delivery to time, cost, and quality objectives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

As a Risk Manager, you have a passion to provide services as required by our clients, which may include: 

• Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailoring to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice. 
• Facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts. 
• Creation and maintenance of risk registers and other risk information. 
• Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust. 
• Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes. 
• Assist the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, that support the post mitigated positions. 
• Conduct Quantitative Risk Assessment and analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule impacts to support the understanding of the project’s remaining risk exposure. 
• Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar. 
• The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and excel) and Power BI. Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau. 
• Collaborating with other Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information. 
• Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.