About The Role
Risk Analyst
Full Time, Fixed Term Contract - 22 months
Salary – up to £37,800 depending on experience + excellent benefits
Location – Pity Me, Durham
Do have a background in Construction Risk and Opportunity Management
If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!
About The Role
We’ve an amazing new opportunity to become our new Risk Analyst, reporting into the Risk Lead within our Asset Portfolio Management Office (PMO). You’ll join a team of Risk Analysts contributing to our National Leader ambitions. You’ll be a skilled Risk Analyst with direct experience of working in a fast-paced PMO environment.
The role is essential to the effective performance of the estimating function to ensure appropriate, quality information and data is available, enabling strategic portfolio planning and accurate risk forecasting.
In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring that accurate risk and opportunity registers are produced, analysis is undertaken to understand mitigation actions and data is communicated clearly to stakeholders.
We’re looking for you to prepare accurate risk and opportunity registers alongside the project team and NWG processes and procedures, providing support by assisting in the risk workshops and working with contractors. You’ll also be providing accurate risk and opportunity registers for projects and contracts at all key stages of the project life- cycle.
You’ll be analysing variances between estimate versions and comparison with actual costs, providing periodic advice and guidance to key stakeholders and suppliers e.g. On Risk and Opportunities. We’re looking for you to take ownership for registers in a specific asset base and conduct peer reviews and ensure mitigating actions are driven and completed. Providing validation of risk and opportunity registers prepared by other system users, NWG employees or supply chain in accordance with governance requirements. You’ll build strong working relationships with customer stakeholders and data service providers.
About You
We’re looking for you to have a proven risk experience, along with experience within a building / construction environment. You’ll also have proven experience of utilising risk software to support detailed and high-level projects in a Capital Programme Environment.
You’ll have some great skills too, including extensive knowledge of risk processes, procedures & tools in a construction environment and of engineering construction methods.
If this sounds like you, then we’d love to see your application come through to us.
Here at Northumbrian, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation
About Asset Management & PMO
The Assets Directorate understand the health of our assets, invest wisely and maintain them to continue to provide safe, reliable and resilient services to our customers today and in the future.
We have launched an ambitious transformation programme to drive a real step change in how we deliver our capital projects. This requires the development of a high-performing PMO to provide a central controls function delivering impactful performance reporting, estimating, schedule and risk management, and governance. The overarching objective of the transformation programme is to transition from a hybrid PMO consisting of NWL staff and contractor support, to an entirely inhouse model.
Our Benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:
* Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
* Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
* Free access to local attractions.
* A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
* Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
* Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
* Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
* Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
About Us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply
NWG At a Glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
About Us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.