Risk Manager – Project Controls (All Levels)

About Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is a leading global professional services firm employing over 22,000 individuals across more than 60 countries. We collaborate with clients in real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources sectors to deliver transformative results that enhance lives worldwide. Our expertise spans programme and project management, cost and asset management, commercial and performance controls, procurement and supply chain management, net zero strategies, and digital innovations. Majority owned by CBRE Group, Inc., we partner with them to provide premier project and cost management solutions globally.

Role Overview

We are searching for Risk Managers to join our Project Controls team located in Yorkshire/Northeast regions. The role involves leading risk management activities on high-profile infrastructure projects across energy, renewables, defence, rail, and utilities sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, opportunities, and issues affecting projects.
• Maintain continuous awareness of risk trigger points to ensure accurate risk cost profiling, appropriate budget utilization, and management of risk retirement.
• Support the formulation of measurable, specific management responses and evaluate their post-mitigation impact.
• Monitor overall risk exposure, assessing it against remaining budget and project timelines.
• Develop and deliver clear, timely risk reports to communicate status and necessary senior management actions.
• Apply quantitative risk assessment techniques including cost, schedule, and integrated analyses to inform contingency planning and time risk allowances, using tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA, or similar.
• Utilize web-based database and reporting platforms including ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, and PowerBI for risk data management and visualization.

Candidate Qualifications

• Proven experience in risk delivery roles on major projects or for blue-chip clients, preferably within energy, renewables, defence, rail, or utilities sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement integrated risk management approaches across portfolios, programmes, and projects.
• Skilled in facilitating Risk and Scenario Analysis workshops and in generating proactive risk mitigation and opportunity exploitation strategies.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, including probabilistic modeling with @risk, PRA, or similar tools. Industry-leading training will be provided.
• Good understanding of Project Controls methodologies and their interaction with risk management practices.
• Attaining or working towards professional risk certifications such as IRM or APM risk certifications is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in working methods.

Additional Information

• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging applications from all community sectors.
• Potential involvement in SOX control responsibilities where applicable, adhering strictly to relevant compliance requirements.
• Strict zero-fee recruitment policy; no candidate payments requested at any recruitment stage.