Senior Risk Specialist

Location:

Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Senior Risk Specialist at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Senior Risk Specialist you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support various risk management and controls tasks within the Rosyth Marine Programmes and Nuclear Operations portfolio. The role will be responsible for developing and implementing process and applications of Risk (Threat & Opportunity) Management across business winning and project delivery phases across P3M (including strategic portfolio risk management) while developing and maintaining good practices, processes and the governance of these areas. This role will report to the Marine Rosyth Risk Manager, but will utilise applicable risk experience to drive capability and performance in a defined area within the business.
Day-to-day, you will:

• Manage the Risk Management process across the Project/Programme & BD environments.
• Implement and maintain the Project/Programme Risk Management plan(s), policies, procedures, process and instructions.
• Provide Risk Management support to the project; Management of Risk data, and quality assurance of Risk reporting.
• Implement Risk Management policies/procedures/process and instructions.
• Maintain Risk Governance arrangements through the project lifecycle.
• Provision of training material/support to all stakeholders and developing other risk specialists.
• Lead on complex quantitative risk analysis within the company's toolsets – SRA’s and CRA’s.

This role is full time 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days based in office in Rosyth, 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Risk Specialist

• Relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector.
• Experience of implementing Risk Governance, Risk Management methodologies, processes, systems and tools.
• Practical experience in conducting quantitative risk analysis modelling.
• Advanced Risk & opportunity management techniques.
• Full project lifecycle experience.
• Knowledge of contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC/JCT).

Qualifications for the Senior Risk Specialist

• Project Planning and Controls – Practitioner.
• Project Fundamentals Qualification.
• Management of Risk.
• Practitioner or APM Risk Level 2.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 10/03/2025