Senior Risk Manager - Infrastructure

Senior Risk Manager – Infrastructure Sector

Leeds, England

Permanent

Full time - with flexible working and core hours

About this opportunity:

Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1875, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are an accredited Great Place to Work, with our people at the heart of everything we do.

Gleeds Infrastructure specialise in delivering projects worldwide with extensive experience in the Rail, Water & Utilities, Aviation, and Transportation & Highway sectors. Our goal is to deliver Infrastructure that leaves a positive, lasting legacy when well-integrated into the physical, human, and economic environment. Whether it’s a rail link, wind farm, or flood defence barrier, the goal is to create tangible benefits for individuals, communities, and economies.

We have risk opportunities with clients at critical stages of the project/programme lifecycle from feasibility/set-up including maturity assessments through to design/implementation and assurance, all underpinned by best-in-class risk modelling analysis using the latest techniques in the markets. You will have responsibility for having a leading role in strengthening Gleeds’ Risk Management proposition, both internally and external with our diverse and inclusion risk team.

As a Senior Risk Manager, your responsibilities will be -

• Demonstrate proactive and constructive behaviours to harness risk information across a project to respond with agility to project challenges and variances proactively.
• Challenge the norm/traditional risk management ways and contribute views to shape Gleeds’ future risk management approaches.
• Lead/support delivery of risk management commissions on major programmes and projects.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (integrated, cost and schedule) to inform business cases, investment decisions and project/programme performances.
• Demonstrate proficient to experienced levels of competence with tools such as @risk, Safran, PRA or similar. Furthermore, knowledge of new technologies including Nodes & Links and nPlan beneficial.
• Confidently interrogate and present key risk findings to clients including QRA model outputs, recommendations to support decision making and assurance of supply chain risk management performance.
• Lead and facilitate risk workshops for the identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and mitigations including What-If and Scenario Analysis.
• Familiarity with Risk, Project Controls/PMO and PPP Delivery Maturity Assessments and what good looks like.

• Provide guidance and training to project teams on risk management tools and techniques.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• A recognised diploma or degree or be qualified with professional certifications in risk management (e.g., PMI-RMP, APM Risk, IRM) preferred.

6+ years in risk management within major projects or regulated industries (nuclear, infrastructure, energy, defence,).