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Risk Manager

CompanyTurner & Townsend
LocationManchester
Work ModeOn Site
PostedSeptember 29, 2026
About The Company
We're Turner & Townsend – a global programme manager. For more than 80 years, we’ve helped deliver the projects that define how people live, work and connect. From shaping resilient cities to advancing clean energy, we approach every challenge with the same goal – to make a meaningful and lasting impact. Partnering closely with our clients, we plan, manage and deliver complex projects and portfolios. Our teams bring the leadership, commercial expertise and independent advice that unlocks performance and protects investment. From the metro systems moving millions of people to the data centres powering the digital economy, we bring ambitious plans to life and deliver outcomes that matter.
About the Role

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Risk Managers within our Project Controls Team, based out of our Northwest region, based our of our Manchester office.

As a Risk Manager, you will be an integral member of the Project Controls Team, undertaking duties on high profile infrastructure projects, across the energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities sector.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues
  • Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity
  • Assist with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions
  • Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget and timeline
  • Produce and present fit for purpose risk reports, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status and required senior management action.
  • Understand quantitative risk assessment (cost, schedule and integrated) to inform project contingency and time risk allowance levels. Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.
  • Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, PowerBI.

Qualifications

We are looking for individuals who can successfully demonstrate the following capabilities:

  • A working understanding of developing and implementing integrated risk management solutions across portfolios, programmes and projects
  • Risk and Scenario Analysis workshop facilitation
  • Development of proactive threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation,
  • Qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk including probabilistic modelling (@risk, PRA or equivalent). However, industry leading training will be provided.
  • Broad understanding of Project Controls methodology and risk management interactions

It is essential that you have experience in a risk delivery role on major projects/programmes or blue-chip clients.  Project experience within energy, renewables, defence, rail and utilities will be an advantage.

Attainment or working towards IRM / APM risk certified candidates preferred.

Candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to developing new and more effective ways of working.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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  • Department: Infrastructure
  • Key Skills
    Risk managementProject controlsQuantitative risk assessmentWorkshop facilitationThreat mitigationOpportunity exploitationProbabilistic modellingSafran@riskPRAARMXactiumPredictTableauPowerBICommunication skills
    Categories
    ConsultingConstructionEnergyManagement & LeadershipEngineering
    Benefits
    Flexible working environmentWork-life balance
    Job Information
    📋Core Responsibilities
    The Risk Manager will facilitate the identification, assessment, and prioritization of project threats and opportunities while maintaining visibility of risk trigger points. They are responsible for monitoring overall risk exposure against budgets and timelines and presenting reports to senior management.
    📋Job Type
    full time
    📊Experience Level
    5-10
    💼Company Size
    19564
    📊Visa Sponsorship
    No
    💼Language
    English
    🏢Working Hours
    40 hours
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