About the role
Job Title: Risk Manager
Location: North East Scotland / Aberdeen / Peterhead
Company: Balfour Beatty
Project: Energy | Major Infrastructure
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Scotland Energy Delivery Unit, supporting the delivery of our major offshore energy programme.
Working closely with the and Project Management Teams, you will play a key role in implementing and delivering the Project Risk Management Strategy, helping our teams identify, assess, respond to and monitor programme and project risk.
You’ll work collaboratively with Project Teams, Risk Owners, commercial leadership, our customer and other key stakeholders, ensuring robust risk management is embedded throughout programme delivery. The role will also support key financial reporting, forecasting and commercial decision‑making.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a major infrastructure programme where effective risk management will be fundamental to successful project delivery.
What you’ll be doing
- Support the Scotland Energy Delivery Unit leadership team in developing and implementing the risk management strategy, approach and reporting cadence across the offshore programme.
- Lead the identification, assessment, response and ongoing monitoring of project and programme risks.
- Facilitate risk workshops across multiple project packages.
- Undertake Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA) and Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and associated risk modelling.
- Incorporate project assumptions, dependencies and constraints into risk analysis and regular reporting.
- Support commercial teams with risk information for pricing, forecasting and contractual risk‑sharing arrangements, including projects operating under NEC contracts.
- Provide guidance and support to Risk Owners in the consistent assessment of risks and development of appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Develop and deliver risk management training to Project Teams, Risk Owners and Action Owners.
- Develop Project Risk Management Plans where required for individual work packages.
- Produce and deliver risk reports for internal management teams and the Customer.
- Work closely with the Customer’s risk management team to ensure alignment of approach and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate across Balfour Beatty and with key subcontractors and third parties to ensure risk is understood, documented and effectively managed.
- Help embed risk management as a fundamental part of project culture, processes and controls.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with strong project and programme risk management experience, ideally gained within major infrastructure, energy or another complex project environment.
- Experience working in a project-based risk management role across a complex, large-scale programme of works.
- Experience of QCRA and QSRA and the ability to undertake quantitative risk analysis and modelling.
- Experience using recognised risk management systems, such as Active Risk Manager (ARM) or similar.
- A strong understanding of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes, controls and methodologies.
- Experience working across large-scale, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge or experience of NEC contracts would be advantageous.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior management.
- Experience facilitating risk workshops and delivering training.
- The ability to build strong relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Excellent attention to detail with strong written and verbal reporting skills.
- A proactive, self-starting approach with the ability to manage your own workload.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
- A degree-level qualification would be preferable.
Why join us?
This is a key role within our growing Scotland Energy business, giving you the opportunity to influence the successful delivery of a major offshore infrastructure programme while working alongside experienced project, commercial and risk professionals.
You’ll have the opportunity to shape how risk management is embedded across the programme, influence key commercial and project decisions and work with stakeholders across Balfour Beatty and our Customer.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We’re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10 approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
We are committed to our processes being barrier‑free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
Benefits
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier‑free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
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