About the role
Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment programme works for our key customer, National Highways.
As a Risk Manager, you will lead risk management across complex major projects or a portfolio of schemes. You will provide authoritative expertise in identifying, assessing, mitigating, and communicating risks to ensure robust decision-making, value protection, and compliance with business and risk standards. You will strengthen organisational risk maturity by facilitating high-quality workshops, coaching project teams, challenging assumptions, and embedding best-practice techniques across disciplines. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and clients, you will ensure risks and opportunities are proactively managed and escalated. Professional accreditation in risk management, such as APM Risk Practitioner or IRM certification, is expected, alongside a commitment to continuing professional development.
What you'll be doing
You will apply strong professional judgment to ensure consistent and effective risk management across all projects, providing clear escalation, transparency, and accurate representation of risk exposure.
You will lead risk management across multiple schemes, providing expert advice to project leadership to protect programme, cost, safety, and commercial outcomes, and review and assure risk information for clarity, completeness, and realistic impact assessments.
You will plan and facilitate structured risk workshops, ensuring outputs translate into clear actions and meaningful movement on risk exposure, and support quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform decision-making.
You will act as the primary risk contact for clients and partners, ensuring aligned understanding of exposure, movement, and mitigation plans, and support change, forecasting, and commercial discussions with risk-based insight.
You will review risk inputs from subcontractors and suppliers, support tender reviews by evaluating risk allocations, constraints, and uncertainties, and produce concise, accurate portfolio-level risk reporting including key trends, emerging risks, and progress on mitigations.
You will coach and mentor project teams to strengthen risk understanding and behaviours and support the development of less experienced risk practitioners where applicable.
Who we're looking for
You will have proven experience delivering effective risk management across major or multi-discipline infrastructure projects, with a strong understanding of core risk management principles including cause-event-consequence, controls versus actions, and impact and probability.
You will have demonstrated ability to facilitate structured risk workshops and drive clear, actionable outcomes, and the ability to interpret and communicate risk insights and trends to senior stakeholders.
Experience working collaboratively with commercial, planning, engineering, and delivery teams is required, along with proficiency in recognised risk tools and systems.
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...
About us
Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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