Risk Engineer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Substation & Renewable Connections team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing?

As a Risk Engineer you’ll support our major M&E projects by working across contracts with our key clients in the transmission sector. Reporting directly to the Risk Manager and alongside our project teams, you will contribute to a culture of proactive risk management that safeguards our people, protects programme performance and supports our reputation for delivering complex infrastructure on time and within budget. You’ll be instrumental in identifying, quantifying, and mitigating threats and supporting opportunities to improve project performance across our portfolio of substations.

We're looking for someone based in the South West or South Wales due to our projects being in these locations with our main office being in Newport. This is a Hybrid position.

• Maintain package risk registers through risk reviews, risk workshops and health checking, working collaboratively with the project teams
• Facilitate structured risk workshops with project teams, supply chain partners, and client representatives using recognised methodologies
• Ensure mitigations are SMART and are kept under review as to their effective and efficient performance to manage risk to required levels
• Prepare Quantified Risk Analysis (QRAs) throughout the project lifecycle and in readiness for stage-gate reviews, embedding techniques and tools on all projects alongside the project teams.
• Model interdependencies between programme elements and advise on optimal contingency allocations
• Support the Early Warning Register (EWR) process, ensuring timely identification and communication of compensation events and project risks
• Contribute to Risk Reduction Meetings and Programme Risk Reviews
• Provide support to the Risk Manager, Project Managers, and Project teams
• Utilise and champion digital risk tools and support the adoption of data-driven risk analytics and predictive modelling techniques

What you’ll bring

• Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, or related discipline
• Proficient in QRA processes and its application on construction projects and possess a strong aptitude for schedule, Cost, Risk, Change management activities as well as analytical reporting
• Demonstrable experience in risk management, understands the need to adapt risk information to different audiences and can interact well with people across the organisation - able to build relationships internally within M Group and with clients
• Knowledge and experience of applying of risk management best practices, e.g.; ISO 31000
• Understand the risk contribution to the monthly reporting process
• Formal Risk Management qualification (e.g. BA, MA, IRM Certificate / Diploma, APM Risk, or similar)
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., IRM, ALARM, APM or similar)
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between project sites

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private health care and health care cash plan
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet

We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations

We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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