Project Risk Manager - Energy Sector

Turner & Townsend • Aberdeen, WA

1h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Turner & Townsend, we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and contributing to a prosperous society. We aim to drive and support change, building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society to deliver positive outcomes. We work smarter to address future challenges, bringing clarity to help teams achieve their full potential across real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. This approach has defined our 75 years of transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. Due to increased opportunities and demand in the Energy & Natural Resources division, the Aberdeen team is recruiting Risk Managers to join a diverse and supportive team during a period of significant growth. Our nuclear client is at the forefront of industry-leading change, and we are seeking individuals with risk management experience. Candidates will be required to be present in our client office in Warrington for 3 days per week. The Risk Manager will serve as the gatekeeper for risk management, ensuring adherence to governance processes and consistent review, maintenance, and population of the risk register. This role involves supporting the wider team and senior risk managers across various work packages and projects, ranging from multiple smaller initiatives to a single, high-value project. Key responsibilities include accurate capture of risk data and facilitating the identification, assessment, and prioritization of threats, opportunities, and issues. The role requires maintaining clear visibility of trigger points to support effective risk cost profiling, timely risk budget drawdown, and appropriate risk retirement. The Risk Manager is crucial in ensuring client objectives are met and projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, and quality standards. While QRA experience is not required, strong risk governance, register management, and stakeholder engagement skills are essential. The role is Aberdeen-based, with a requirement to attend the office or site a minimum of three days per week.

Requirements

• Professional Risk Management experience in one or more sectors across the whole Project lifecycle.
• Ability to adjust risk strategies and process in response to change.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders.
• Conversant with risk management systems such as Safran, @risk, PRA.
• Strategic awareness and critical thinking, with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.
• Ability to obtain BPSS level security clearance.
• Member of a relevant professional body e.g., Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Association for Project Management.
• Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA).
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good research and analytical skills.
• Stakeholder management experience.
• Experience of working within a Project Controls team.

Nice To Haves

• Nuclear experience is desirable.
• A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable.
• Prior Oil & Gas sector experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
• Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees