Senior Risk Practitioner

Jacobs; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Our Technology Consulting and innovation team have some exciting opportunities across our teams and are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Risk Practitioner who is keen to cement our risk procedure to ensure we deliver projects to our key clients and encouraging the growth of our business in this sector.

Some of our key stakeholders include but are not limited to UKAEA, EDF Energy, Ministry Of Defence, Framatome, Fusion 4 Energy, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation UK, National Nuclear Laboratory Limited, working on a range of projects from robotics, first of a kind technology, MOD Safety report, extending the life of nuclear reactors, Research and development projects.

• You will be expected to provide project risk management support to a widely diverse portfolio of projects at various points in the project delivery lifecycle, including:
• Performing qualitative risk management through a structured approach, such as risk reviews, that allows individual risk events and overall project risk to be identified and assessed and then controlled through the evaluation of options and the selection and implementation of risk management.
• Documenting quantification of risk, assumptions, qualifications, and exclusions.
• Facilitating risk identification workshops and reviews both internally and client facing.
• Developing risk responses and actions including monitoring and reporting through to risk closeout.
• Performing quantitative risk analysis through assessment of the qualitative risks, interpreting the results and applying analysis to assess appropriate allowances for risk.
• Supporting analysis of the output data documented in basis of risk reports to provide risk-based guidance to project managers and business decision makers.
• Providing intelligent advice, coaching and challenge to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing bespoke advice to clients - from analysing data and working with Life Cycle models through to Investment Appraisals.

The role is Warrington based but hybrid working is available and considered. Consideration can also be given in respect to part time & flexible working hours.

Minimum Requirements

• Understanding of the relationship between risk management and controls/management functions including project management, change control, planning & scheduling, cost & commercial management, and reporting.
• Experience using relevant tools and applications such as Active Risk Manager (ARM), RiskHive, @Risk and Primavera Risk Analysis.

Skills and Behaviours

• Ability to motivate and liaise with team members and discipline leads to ensure that risk information is as agreed with client and other stakeholders.
• Deliverables focused and an accomplished problem solver, rising to meet any challenge. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and personal resilience to working under pressure and with different styles of leadership.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills using leading edge tools and techniques.

Experience

• Professional level associated qualifications or postgraduate qualifications are not essential but advantageous if degree is in an unrelated subject.
• Relevant experience with strong working knowledge of risk management in a project execution related environment.
• Experience of Nuclear, Defence, Technology and Cyber industries is preferable.

You will be required to hold or have the ability to gain UK Security Clearance to SC level.

Our Culture:

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

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