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Job DescriptionWe are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of risk management in their core area of activity.
Within our North West region our infrastructure team has strong positions in in multiple sectors including Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.
We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on projects/programmes. To support the implementation of an integrated risk management process across a Project Delivery environment. Applicants preferably should have experience within a Defence setting, but not limited to.
Key deliverables:
Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the Project through workshops and directly supporting project teams.
Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling and retirement of threat/opportunity.
Use risk data to inform planning.
Monitor or support overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget.
Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status.
Support quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
A reasonable level of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict or Power-BI
- Understanding of Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk
- Threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation
- A working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme
Have a degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and relevant experience in a risk delivery role.
Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Institute of Risk Managers or Project Management Institute.
Other essential requirements:
Owing to the sensitive nature of the works involved in these specialist defence projects, candidates will be required to hold, or be able to hold, valid security clearance (SC) and in order to do so will need to be:
• British Nationals
• Hold a UK Passport
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