Project Risk Manager - Energy Sector
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Employees work in a hybrid mode
- Full-time
Peace is working with a well-respected construction consultancy is looking to appoint a Risk Manager to support the increased opportunities and demand within their Energy Resources Division.
The Risk Manager will act as the gatekeeper for risk management, ensuring governance processes are adhered to and that the risk register is consistently reviewed, maintained, and populated. The Risk Manager will support the wider team and senior risk managers across work packages and projects of varying size and complexity, ranging from multiple smaller initiatives to a single, high?value project.
Key responsibilities include the accurate capture of risk data and facilitating the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues. The role requires maintaining clear visibility of trigger points to support effective risk cost profiling, timely risk budget drawdown, and appropriate risk retirement. The Risk Manager plays a key role in ensuring client objectives are met and projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, and quality standards. While QRA experience is not required, strong risk governance, register management, and stakeholder engagement skills are essential. The role is Aberdeen?based, with a requirement to attend the office or site, a minimum of three days per week.
Key Accountabilities:
As a Risk Manager, you have a passion to provide services as required by our clients, which may include:
- Planning, designing and implementing risk management processes tailoring to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
- Facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts.
- Creation and maintenance of risk registers and other risk information.
- Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust.
- Drive the implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
- Assist the project team with the identification and development of management responses which are measurable and specific, that support the post mitigated positions.
- Demonstrate basic to practitioner competency with tools such as Safran, @risk, PRA or similar.
- The production of timely and efficient risk reporting using tools such as Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word and excel) and Power BI. Familiarity with web-based database/reporting tools – ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau.
- Collaborating with other Project Controls disciplines to maintain alignment of project information.
- Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.
Qualifications
You have professional Risk Management experience in one or more sectors across the whole Project lifecycle. While nuclear experience is desirable it is not an absolute requirement. You have the ability to adjust risk strategies and process in response to change and have excellent communication skills to convey complex risk information to all stakeholders. You are conversant with risk management systems such as Safran, @risk, PRA. Strategic awareness and critical thinking are key, with the ability to confidently assess the implications of various risk scenarios.
Additional Qualifications:
- Member of a relevant professional body e.g., Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Association for Project Management
- Familiarity with at least one risk standard or approach (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA)
- A risk qualification such as APM Risk Certificate Level 2 or Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable
- Have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Have good research and analytical skills.
- Have stakeholder management experience.
- Have experience of working within a Project Controls team.
- Prior Renewables or Oil & Gas sector experience is desirable.
