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Senior project controls - risk - defence

Manchester
Turner & Townsend
Project controller
Posted: 3 November
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We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of risk management in their core area of activity.

Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in multiple sectors including Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.

We are looking for candidates with proven experience in a risk delivery role on projects/programmes. To support the implementation of an integrated risk management process across a Project Delivery environment. Applicants preferably should have experience within a Defence setting, but not limited to.

Key deliverables:

* Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the Project through workshops and directly supporting project teams.

* Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling and retirement of threat/opportunity.

* Use risk data to inform planning.

* Assist with the identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions.

* Monitor  or support overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget.

* Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.

* Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status.

* Support quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.

* A reasonable level of competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, Safran or Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict or Power-BI


Qualifications

* Have a degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and relevant experience in a risk delivery role.
* Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Institute of Risk Managers or Project Management Institute.
* Understanding of Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk
* Threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation
* A working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on a large programme
* Awareness of governance and policy guidance including IR

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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.



SOX 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.

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