Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Senior Risk Consultant
We are recruiting for a Senior Risk Consultant to join our growing team across our UK offices.
As a Senior Risk Consultant, you will be responsible for implementing and advising on Risk Management solutions for AECOM’s major infrastructure projects across a broad range of sectors.
Working as part of the AECOM Integrated Programme Controls team, you will engage with senior stakeholders and customers, and collaborate with internal, client and sub‑contractor staff to develop an accurate understanding of risk exposure and provide governance to support effective decision making.
Responsibilities
* Engage with project teams to ensure the effective implementation of risk management
* Provide direct risk management input to bids and proposals to secure new business
* Perform risk assurance checks to ensure the quality of project and programme risk management
* Communicate key project and programme risk management data to senior leaders
* Produce comprehensive risk reports for informed decision
* Coaching and mentoring staff in risk management best practice
* Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of risks
* Develop robust Risk Registers, Risk Management Plans, and Risk Mitigation Plans
* Conduct Quantitative Risk Analysis (QCRA and QSRA), utilising techniques such as Monte‑Carlo to establish project contingency levels.
* Ability to design and implement risk management frameworks for projects and programmes
* Support cost, scheduling, project controls and change management teams where appropriate.
Qualifications
* 3+ years experience in risk management, with at least 2 years experience of risk management activities on high value projects.
* Bachelor’s Degree from a recognised and accredited university or hold a risk management qualification (MOR, APM Risk, IRM)
* Proven experience and excellent working knowledge gained in a multi‑discipline project environment.
* Proficient in the use of Industry Risk Management tools (ARM, Xactium, RiskHive, Predict etc.)
* Demonstrable experience in conducting Quantitative Risk Analysis (QCRA & QSRA) using tools such as Safran, Primavera Risk Analyser, @risk.
* Competency in implementing Risk Management processes aligned with ISO31000, Institute of Risk Management, or Association of Project Management methodologies.
* Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors.
* Good people management and task facilitation skills.
* Knowledge of engineering and construction management.
* Working knowledge of current methodologies and tools related to managing projects.
Company Overview
At AECOM, we are delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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