The Role
Lead establishment and delivery of risk, early warning and change management for a large-scale data centre project. Facilitate risk workshops, maintain risk and change registers, perform qualitative/quantitative assessments, manage change submissions and governance, integrate with project controls, and report metrics. Engage clients, contractors and senior stakeholders to mitigate risks, track responses, support assurance and ensure consistent governance across the programme.
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Why RLB?
At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.
We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.
Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.
We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.
You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.
What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.
Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to support the successful delivery of a large-scale data centre project in the Groningen region of the Netherlands.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to support the successful delivery of a large-scale data centre project in the Groningen region of the Netherlands.
As part of the Project Controls team, the successful candidate will establish, implement, and lead the project's risk and change management function, ensuring alignment with the Client's governance requirements and delivery objectives. The role will be responsible for managing the project's Early Warning process, maintaining robust risk and change control frameworks, facilitating the proactive identification and mitigation of risks and opportunities, and ensuring that changes are effectively assessed, governed, and communicated throughout the project lifecycle.
Working closely with the client, project leadership team, contractors, commercial team, Project Controls team, and Portfolio Service Delivery Lead, the Risk & Change Manager will promote industry best practice, support informed decision-making, and contribute to the successful delivery of this critical programme of works, while maintaining consistency of approach across the wider portfolio.
Role Responsibilities
Develop, implement, and maintain the project's early warning, risk and change management process in accordance with client and project governance requirements.
Risk & Opportunity Management
- Facilitate risk identification workshops, risk reviews, and opportunity assessments with key project stakeholders.
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the project risk register, ensuring risks and opportunities are appropriately identified, assessed, monitored, and reported.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
- Ensure response actions are identified, implemented, and tracked through to completion.
- Support the development of a proactive risk-aware culture across the project team.
Change Management
- Support the management of contractor change submissions and associated governance processes.
- Work closely with planning, cost management, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure all changes are appropriately reviewed, assessed, approved, documented, and communicated.
- Coordinate and facilitate Change Control Board meetings and maintain the project change register.
- Monitor cumulative change impacts and identify change trends, drivers, and potential project implications.
Project Controls
- Collaborate with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure the effective integration of risk and change management into project delivery.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of risk and change performance metrics.
- Ensure compliance with client, corporate, contractual, and industry governance standards.
- Support project reviews, assurance activities, stage-gate assessments, and lessons-learned initiatives.
Candidate Profile
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as APM, IRM, PMI, or equivalent.
- Working towards, or holding, relevant professional certifications such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, PMP, or equivalent.
Experience
- Delivery of risk and change management services within construction or infrastructure projects.
- Working within complex, multi-disciplinary project environments involving multiple contractors and stakeholders.
- Development and implementation of project risk and change management processes, including governance boards and approval frameworks.
- Risk workshop facilitation and maintenance of project risk registers throughout the project lifecycle.
- Working within a client-facing environment and providing advice to senior stakeholders.
- Working on programmes or projects with significant commercial, schedule, and delivery complexity.
- Familiarity with NEC or other standard forms of contract.
- Commercial awareness and an appreciation of contractual risk allocation.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between risk and change management and project controls functions.
Desirable
- Experience working on projects in the Netherlands or wider European markets is advantageous.
- Experience supporting hyperscale data centre developments.
- Experience working during construction and site delivery phases.
- Experience establishing risk and change functions on major projects.
- Knowledge of cost and schedule risk modelling and quantitative risk assessment tools.
- Experience supporting programme level or strategic risk management processes.
Behaviours
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all organisational levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to operate effectively within large corporate and client environments.
- Strong presentation, report writing, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a wider project team.
- Recognised as a client focused, positive collaborator who shares knowledge freely and offers support to their peers and seniors. Recognised as a team player with a strong willingness to learn.
- Demonstrates a positive and proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
RLB Employee Benefits
Our culture is built around enabling you to fulfil your potential, so you can look forward to benefits that include:
- Hybrid Working - Working patterns to support your work-life balance.
- Well-Rewarded - A competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement. As well as the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.
- Personal Development - A continuous learning and development programme, including established APC and in-house mentoring schemes.
- Additional Benefits - We offer a wide range of benefits including professional membership subscriptions.
- Exceptional Exposure - You’ll have the opportunity to work on diverse projects across different sectors and regions.
- Social Responsibility - We hold team and social events as well as charity fundraising and volunteering activities.
Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Promise
We believe in building a diverse and inclusive environment where each person can be themselves, feel valued for their contribution and be challenged and supported to reach their full potential. We have a responsibility to support the communities in which we live and work, and that our workforce should reflect these communities and our clients. Our talent strategy should enable us to overcome bias in the construction industry by recruiting, retaining, developing, and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. Find out more here: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - RLB | Europe
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during any stage of the application or interview process, please contact our recruitment team at: [email protected]
About
With a network that covers the globe and a heritage spanning over two centuries, Rider Levett Bucknall is a leading independent organisation in cost management and quantity surveying, project management and advisory services.Our achievements are renowned: from the early days of pioneering quantity surveying, to landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House, HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, the 2012 London Olympic Games and CityCenter in Las Vegas.We continue this successful legacy with our dedication to the value, quality and sustainability of the built environment. Our innovative thinking, global reach, and flawless execution push the boundaries. Taking ambitious projects from an idea to reality.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Management, Risk Management or related discipline
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as APM, IRM, PMI or equivalent
- Working towards or holding certifications such as APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, PMP or equivalent
- Proven delivery of risk and change management services within construction or infrastructure projects
- Experience working within complex, multi-disciplinary project environments with multiple contractors and stakeholders
- Development and implementation of project risk and change management processes, including governance boards and approval frameworks
- Facilitation of risk workshops and maintenance of project risk registers throughout the project lifecycle
- Client-facing experience providing advice to senior stakeholders
- Familiarity with NEC or other standard forms of contract
- Commercial awareness and appreciation of contractual risk allocation
- Strong understanding of the relationship between risk and change management and project controls functions
- Experience working on projects in the Netherlands or wider European markets
- Experience supporting hyperscale data centre developments
- Experience working during construction and site delivery phases
- Experience establishing risk and change functions on major projects
- Knowledge of cost and schedule risk modelling and quantitative risk assessment tools
- Experience supporting programme-level or strategic risk management processes
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What We Do
Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) is a global independent construction, property, and management consultancy specializing in cost management, quantity surveying, project and programme management, and asset advisory services.
