Job Description

Risk Manager

Dungeness (Kent) 

Hybrid  Mon-Thur 37.5 hour week 9.375 hour days 

Inside IR35 (Umbrella/PAYE only)

The Risk Manager will lead the delivery and governance of risk management activities across major projects, programmes, and sites, ensuring effective identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.

The role will provide strategic and operational risk leadership within a complex project environment, supporting programme delivery, informed decision-making, and effective contingency management. The Risk Manager will ensure that risk management processes, tools, and controls are embedded across project delivery teams and aligned with organisational and regulatory requirements.

The role requires strong experience in project risk management, quantitative risk analysis, project controls integration, and stakeholder engagement within highly regulated environments such as nuclear, infrastructure, engineering, defence, or major capital projects.

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Key Responsibilities

Risk Leadership & Governance

- Lead and manage risk management activities across projects, programmes, and sites.

- Establish and maintain effective risk governance arrangements aligned with company procedures and project controls standards.

- Ensure risk management processes are embedded into programme and site delivery activities.

- Own and govern project, programme, and site risk and assumption registers.

- Provide strategic advice and guidance on risk, contingency, and uncertainty management to project and programme leadership teams.

- Ensure risks, assumptions, issues, and opportunities are appropriately identified, assessed, escalated, and managed.

Risk Identification & Analysis

- Lead risk identification workshops and assumption reviews with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

- Facilitate risk management workshops to ensure robust and consistent risk capture and assessment.

- Conduct qualitative and quantitative risk analysis activities to support programme delivery and decision-making.

- Lead Schedule Quantitative Risk Analysis (SQRA) activities and contingency assessments.

- Operate and oversee Project Risk Analysis (PRA) tools in conjunction with Primavera P6 schedules.

- Analyse risk exposure, trends, mitigation effectiveness, and potential impacts on cost, schedule, and delivery performance.

- Provide risk reporting, dashboards, and insight to programme and project leadership teams.

Project Controls Integration

- Work closely with Project Controls, Planning, Commercial, Engineering, and Delivery teams to ensure risk information is integrated into programme controls and forecasting processes.

- Support baseline management, change control, trend analysis, and contingency management activities.

- Ensure risk outputs support informed programme planning and decision-making.

Stakeholder Management

- Build effective working relationships with project teams, senior stakeholders, clients, and supply chain partners.

- Provide clear communication and presentation of risk information to senior management, programme boards, and governance forums.

- Support collaborative risk ownership and mitigation management across delivery teams.

Compliance, Assurance & Continuous Improvement

- Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality (HSEQ) policies, procedures, work instructions, and risk assessments.

- Support the continuous improvement of risk management processes, systems, tools, and reporting methodologies.

- Ensure compliance with company governance, regulatory requirements, and relevant industry standards.

- Promote and support Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policies and associated learning activities.

Leadership, Coaching & Capability Development

- Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to risk and project controls personnel.

- Support the development and delivery of risk management training and knowledge sharing initiatives.

- Support capability development and knowledge transfer activities for Magnox staff under the contract.

- Lead by example and promote company values, behaviours, and professional standards at all times.

Additional Responsibilities

- Accountable to the Project Manager for service delivery and to the Functional Lead for technical and professional standards.

- Support wider business activities within the individual's skills, knowledge, experience, and competence.

- Undertake additional duties as reasonably required by the relevant Function Lead.

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Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Training

Essential

- Relevant professional qualification or equivalent significant demonstrable experience in project risk management, project controls, engineering, or programme delivery.

Desirable

- Membership of a relevant professional body such as:

o MIRM

o MAPM

o ACostE

o PMI

o APM

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Experience & Knowledge

Essential

- Significant experience delivering risk management within major projects or programmes in regulated or complex environments.

- Strong understanding of project controls, risk management methodologies, and contingency management principles.

- Experience facilitating risk workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.

- Experience managing project and programme risk registers.

- Experience conducting quantitative risk analysis including SQRA.

- Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and risk analysis tools such as ARM, Pertmaster, or equivalent PRA software.

- Strong analytical and numerical capability including familiarity with Earned Value Analysis (EVA) methodologies.

- Knowledge of baseline management, change control, forecasting, and trend analysis.

- Familiarity with relevant Health & Safety legislation and project governance requirements.

Desirable

- Experience within nuclear, defence, infrastructure, utilities, engineering, or decommissioning environments.

- Knowledge of construction, demolition, decommissioning, process plant, or waste management operations.

- Experience working under NEC contracts and/or other forms of contract including ICE, JCT, or FIDIC.

- Knowledge of company policies, procedures, and assurance frameworks.

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Key Competencies

- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation abilities.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.

- Ability to influence decision-making at programme and senior stakeholder level.

- High attention to detail and governance compliance.

- Collaborative and proactive working approach.

- Commitment to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

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Other Requirements

Essential

- Ability and willingness to travel regularly to project and site locations.

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