Project Risk Manager

Overview

This role provides 1st line risk management support to one or more Costain contracted client projects. The role holder will play an important role in supporting Contract/Project teams to implement effective risk management in line with Costain's risk management standards and client contractual requirements. They will also support the contract/project team through collation and analysis of risk data and report on and escalate risk management matters through both internal risk governance channels and client contractual mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and leads all aspects of the risk management process to the compliance of the risk management plan
• Authors the Contract Risk Management Plan, including annual updates
• Facilitates monthly risk reviews with risk owners to ensure quality of risk data is upheld
• Publishes monthly risk registers
• Generates monthly reports for the key risk roles to undertake responsibilities
• Upholds and reviews risk product quality against associated risk standards
• Prepare risk data and undertakes routine risk analysis

Essential: Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Ability to apply and operate core requirements of a standard project risk process, including maintenance of risk registers
• Experience of planning collaborative risk activities using a range of techniques to facilitate project / programme teams to identify, define, evaluate, respond to and report on risks to project objectives
• Awareness and experience of using qualitative and quantitative risk assessment criteria and supporting (with risk owners) the identification of controls and risk responses

Desirable

• (optional depending on contract/project) Awareness and experience of supporting bid risk management activities, for example identifying risks with members of the project bid team
• Awareness and/or experience of supporting contract/commercial level risk management activities

Qualifications

• Essential: Project Risk qualification, for example APM Risk Cert 1&2
• APM PFQ
• Or equivalent qualifications or experience

Desirable

• Bachelor’s degree in risk management, project management or relevant technical subject (engineering, science, maths, accounting or economics)
• Or equivalent qualifications or experience

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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