Associate Director Risk

Job Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 650 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have exciting opportunities for Associate Directors in Risk to join our expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Infrastructure major projects and programmes. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced professionals to lead PMO risk management whilst supporting the development of our risk management capability. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our wider Controls and Performance community.

As a PMO Risk Manager at Associate Director level, you will be accountable for the quality and delivery of risk and opportunity management services across assigned water and infrastructure projects and programmes. You will lead risk management teams and workstreams, provide specialist advice to clients and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners to embed effective risk management within the PMO. You will support the Director or Risk Lead in implementing the wider risk framework, while independently managing your assigned scope and escalating significant risks and decisions appropriately.

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend:

Associate Directors specialising in PMO risk management at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
• Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
• Proven experience leading risk management teams or workstreams across major projects and programmes, to deliver effective, consistent, assured processes with accountability for the quality and delivery of services within an agreed scope
• Strong technical knowledge of risk and opportunity management principles, methods, techniques, systems and toolkits, with experience developing and implementing risk management frameworks within a PMO function tailored to client’s needs and aligning to best practice
• Experience managing risk and opportunity processes throughout the project lifecycle, including identification, assessment, prioritisation, response planning and monitoring, covering operational, strategic and retained risks
• Driving continuous improvement in risk management to create efficiency, maximise benefits, and promote a culture of enhancement and learning
• Ability to provide specialist risk advice, challenge risk assessments and assumptions, and agree practical mitigation actions with risk owners, escalating significant exposures and decisions to the Director, Risk Lead or appropriate governance forum
• Experience reviewing, scrutinising and assuring significant risk management outputs, including risk registers, assessments, mitigation plans and project and programme risk reports to ensure robust data that is reflective of the project environment
• Ability to implement risk management processes in line with client policies, governance arrangements and relevant safety and quality standards, ensuring consistent application across multidisciplinary teams
• Experience designing, setting up, and facilitating risk workshops and training sessions, improving risk awareness and continuously developing practical risk management tools, processes and reporting standards
• Working alongside the Integrated Controls functions to establish/ develop an accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process
• Ability to integrate risk management with programme schedules, cost information and delivery plans, working with project controls, commercial and delivery teams to understand dependencies and the implications for project outcomes
• Experience coordinating reporting inputs and performance data to provide timely and accurate risk information, highlighting emerging trends, key exposures and the effectiveness of mitigation actions to support delivery decisions
• Manage and run Quantitative Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis activities (QSRA/QCRA) and interpreting the outputs to determine where focus should be applied to benefit the project
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a regulated environment, managing competing priorities and maintaining high standards of accuracy. A strong focus on project controls, data quality and consistent reporting is essential, alongside a willingness to develop your technical capability
• Ability to build and manage client and stakeholder relationships, communicate complex risk information clearly and influence senior stakeholders to support effective risk management and project delivery
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment, acting as a trusted advisor to clients while maintaining independence from both client and supplier organisations, and balancing multiple stakeholder needs to achieve successful project outcomes
• Develop new business opportunities with existing and new clients, including contributing to bids and identifying additional client needs for risk management services

• Client Base - Peterborough and/or client site 3 -5 days a week
• Home office in a Turner & Townsend location – London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Leeds
• Have a full driving licence, access to a vehicle

Qualifications

• Experience within the water, utilities or environmental sectors, including delivery within an AMP framework
• Knowledge of different contracting and delivery models and their implications for risk management
• Understanding of the design and delivery requirements of technically complex infrastructure, engineering or construction projects
• Knowledge of quality management and process improvement practices and systems, preferably within the construction sector

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant subject, such as Project Management, Risk Management, or an infrastructure-related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Relevant professional qualification or membership, such as the APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), APM Risk Certificate Level 2, IRM or Management of Risk (MoR) or an equivalent risk or project management qualification
• Practical knowledge of several risk standards or approaches (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA) and their application
• Strong experience with at least one risk tool (ARM, Predict!, Risk Controller, riskHive, Xactium)
• Practical experience of Quantitative Risk Analysis (Monte-Carlo) techniques, including the interpretation of their key outputs with at least one of the popular software options (Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran etc)
• Strong working knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts, including the administration, management and successful delivery of projects under NEC frameworks, with an ability to proactively manage risk, programme, compensation events and stakeholder relationships

Additional Information

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.