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Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.
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Job DescriptionTurner & Townsend is seeking a Risk Manager to support an ENR client in the rapid implementation of risk registers across a large and diverse portfolio of projects within a key business function. The role will focus on facilitating risk workshops, supporting Project Managers in identifying and documenting risks into a risk register, ensuring comprehensive risk coverage, and preparing high-quality risk data for future integration into an Enterprise Project Management tool.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate risk identification and assessment workshops with Team Leads, Project Managers, and project teams.
- Support the creation, review, and implementation of risk registers.
- Ensure risks, controls, mitigations, and actions are documented consistently and to a high standard.
- Promote risk management best practices and improve stakeholder understanding of the risk process.
- Track progress of risk register completion and support reporting activities.
- Ensure risk data is complete, accurate, and suitable for migration into an Enterprise Project Management tool.
- 5+ years' experience in risk management, PMO, project controls, project governance, or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of project, programme, and Enterprise Risk Management principles and methodologies.
- Understanding of ISO 31000 Risk Management Principles.
- Base knowledge of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), including schedule and cost risk analysis, would be desirable.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organisation.
- Proven experience facilitating risk workshops and supporting project teams in the identification, assessment, and management of risks.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver within challenging timelines.
- Experience working within infrastructure, utilities, engineering, or energy sectors is highly desirable.
- Ability to drive the rapid implementation of risk registers while maintaining a high standard of data quality and risk coverage.
What we offer you:
- Full time, permanent
- Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
- Pension
- Annual leave
- Car allowance
- Healthcare scheme
- Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
- Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
- Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues
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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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
Skills Required
- 5+ years' experience in risk management, PMO, project controls, project governance, or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of project, programme, and Enterprise Risk Management principles and methodologies.
- Understanding of ISO 31000 Risk Management Principles.
- Base knowledge of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), including schedule and cost risk analysis.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across all organisational levels.
- Proven experience facilitating risk workshops and supporting project teams in risk identification, assessment, and management.
- Strong organisational and planning skills with ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver to challenging timelines.
- Experience working within infrastructure, utilities, engineering, or energy sectors.
- Ability to drive rapid implementation of risk registers while maintaining high data quality and risk coverage.
What We Do
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes. Together with our clients, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
