Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
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Role description:
We are looking for a motivated Risk Manager to join our Water team supporting our UK Resilience Global Business Area. Our team works on a variety of flood defence and adaptation projects covering water, civils & utilities across England. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
The main purpose of the role is to:
- Work closely with and provide support to our Project and Programme Management UK teams in development of our risk management service.
- Work with project teams to implement effective risk management processes, procedures and best practice into their projects
- Provide risk management consultancy services
- Act as a technical expert within Resilience, providing subject matter input on pursuits and to project team members in line with project or programme objectives.
Role accountabilities:
- Deliver risk management services to clients in compliance with client governance, processes and objectives.
- Undertake day-to-day risk management activities including identification, assessment, management, review and reporting of risks and opportunities.
- Produce periodic risk reporting which may include profiled risk expenditure, impacted risk / contingency drawdown and risk exposure changes.
- Develop Quantitative Risk Analysis including Cost, Schedule and integrated Cost and Schedule analyses, to enable robust forecasting and tracking of risk exposure.
- Use knowledge and experience to ensure identification and management of all significant risks to achievement of project objectives.
- Deliver discrete risk interventions and embedded risk management services.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential:
- Desire to work towards relevant professional certification, such as APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate
- Experience in the construction, flood risk, or infrastructure sectors.
- Experience in the application of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) techniques and tools, for example: @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis (previously Pertmaster), Safran including the analysis of complex logic-linked cost-loaded schedules.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management tools, for example, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict! and Xactium.
- Understanding of construction contracts and the relationship between risk management and controls/management functions including: project management, change control, planning & scheduling, cost & commercial management and reporting.
- Evidence of previous experience in definition and delivery of risk management plans within projects.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
- Collaborative working style and consulting behaviours.
- A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects
- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently
Desirable:
- Membership of a professional body (e.g. APM, IRM)
- Risk Management qualification, for example IRM International Certificate, APM Risk Certificate, or Axelos M_o_R
- An understanding of planning techniques and tools, including P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Awareness of Value Management processes and techniques.
- Experience delivering risk management at Programme or Strategic levels.
- Experience of working in a client environment.
- Experience in application of a variety of contract forms.
- Experience in working for a large consultancy business
- Experience of applying risk management at a project, portfolio and programme level
- Experience of working on major projects
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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