Risk Analyst

Risk Analyst

Closing Date: 2026-10-19

Location: Mid Lothian, Central Scotland, GB

Employment Type: Any

Company: Turner & Townsend

Posted Date: 2026-11-17T10:00:28.937

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description

We take pride in being one of the leading consultancy providers to the infrastructure sector where we use our skills, processes, and knowledge to provide industry leading services to our clients. We are looking to further bolster our Project Controls Team with the addition of Assistant Risk Managers to work within our Edinburgh office. Join our best in industry team to have the opportunity to work on high profile construction infrastructure projects across a variety of sectors including energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues


• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity


• Assist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions


• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timeline


• Produce and present fit for purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.


• Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.


• Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools - ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.

Qualifications

We are looking for individuals who can fully demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Industry experience such as; construction, infrastructure, engineering, automotive or within a management consultancy


• A working understanding of a developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes and projects


• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk (QRSA's and QCSA's) including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA, Safran or equivalent). However, industry leading training will be provided.


• Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitation


• Development of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation


• Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. 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.
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control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn

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.

Summary

• Type: Full-time


• Function: Engineering


• Experience level: Mid-Senior Level


• Industry: Construction

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Company DescriptionTurner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: Job DescriptionWe take pride in being one of the leading consultancy providers to the infrastructure sector where we use our skills, processes, and knowledge to provide industry leading services to our clients. We are looking to further bolster our Project Controls Team with the addition of Assistant Risk Managers to work within our Edinburgh office. Join our best in industry team to have the opportunity to work on high profile construction infrastructure projects across a variety of sectors including energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities.Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issuesMaintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunityAssist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable
and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positionsMonitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timelineProduce and present fit for purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools - ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.QualificationsWe are looking for individuals who can fully demonstrate the following capabilities:Industry experience such as; construction, infrastructure, engineering, automotive or within a management consultancyA working understanding of a developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes and
projectsQualitative and quantitative assessment of risk (QRSA's and QCSA's) including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA, Safran or equivalent). However, industry leading training will be provided.Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitationDevelopment of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation,Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactionsAdditional InformationOur inspired people share our vision and mission. 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.Please find out more about
us at #LI-FL1SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: TwitterInstagramLinkedInIt 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. SummaryType: Full-timeFunction: EngineeringExperience level:
Mid-Senior LevelIndustry: Construction