Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for a Project Risk Manager to join the UK Project Governance team.
This is a new role and will spearhead a project risk focus across the business unit with the aim to raise our risk maturity level to a level 4 in the APM Risk Maturity Scale. This is a dynamic role that provides active involvement as well as reporting on project risks to senior leadership.
As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.
- This is an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to our fantastic UK Project Governance team.
- Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.
- You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.
Key duties
- You will implement and aid to develop a strategy to raise our risk maturity level to a level 4 in the APM Risk Maturity Scale.
- You will be responsible for creating and presenting monthly risk reports to senior leadership and reporting meetings.
- As a subject matter expert, you will support and offer guidance and assistance to project teams during the risk process. The focus is on identifying and managing risks that may impact the achievement of key project objectives and ensuring timely escalation of any identified risks.
- To provide expert guidance to Project Directors and leaders, ensuring the development of risk mitigation action plans and opportunity plans. To review risk and collaborate with action owners to ensure project plans are updated and monitored to minimize risk exposure.
- To provide feedback on the sufficiency of contingency measures during the regular reporting cycle, as required.
- As a coach and mentor, you will share knowledge and expertise with project leaderships. This will involve facilitating and conducting risk workshops as appropriate.
Your skills and experience
- With a demonstrated history as a Project Risk Manager in a design engineering environment, you will ensure your expertise is well-recognised and directly applicable to our diverse portfolio of large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects.
- Extensive experience in applying Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) to assess cost, schedule, and carbon factors.
- Demonstrated expertise in multi-disciplinary design, infrastructure, and complex project procurement.
- Possesses excellent attention to detail and the ability to validate and review risk management inputs, records, and generated reports, along with providing basic commentary and analysis.
- Excellent research and analytical skills.
- Conversant in risk and project management-based software (eg: MS Project).
- Holds a degree in risk, project management, engineering, mathematics, or related disciplines within the construction, programme, project, or commercial management disciplines.
- Professional Membership with an applicable professional organisation.
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including, car allowance, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
Craving a more extraordinary everyday?
Apply today and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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