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Project Risk Manager

Costain Group PLC · Manchester, Greater Manchester

Type
Full-time
Posted
16 days ago

Overview

Your experience managing complex incidents and multi-agency coordination directly applies to leading risk reviews and contingency planning on major infrastructure projects.

About this role

Job Description

Costain M60 highways framework have a unique opportunity for a Project Risk Manager.

Costain has been appointed as Delivery Integration Partner by National Highways (NH) for delivery of the £240m improvement of the Simister Island M60/M62/M66 interchange (M60 Junction 18), north of Manchester. As Delivery Integration Partner, Costain will overhaul the busy junction involving complex traffic management to keep tens of thousands of vehicles moving whilst construction takes place.

The Works Consist Of

  • A new free flow ‘northern loop’ link road to take drivers directly from M60 eastbound to M60 southbound without exiting the motorway
  • M66 mainline southbound widening and southbound slip road realignment to allow for construction of the northern loop
  • A widened connector road from M60 northbound to M60 westbound – replacing the current single lane with two lanes
  • Adding an extra lane in each direction on the M60 Junctions 17 to 18 (increasing from 4 to 5 lanes) while retaining the hard shoulders
  • Upgrades to drainage, lighting, motorway technology, signage and signalling.

This role provides 1st line risk management support to one or more Costain contracted client projects. The role holder will play an important role in supporting Contract/Project teams to implement effective risk management in line with Costain's risk management standards and client contractual requirements. They will also support the contract/project team through collation and analysis of risk data and report on and escalate risk management matters through both internal risk governance channels and client contractual mechanisms.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Facilitates and leads all aspects of the risk management process to the compliance of the risk management plan
  • Authors the Contract Risk Management Plan, including annual updates
  • Facilitates monthly risk reviews with risk owners to ensure quality of risk data is upheld
  • Publishes monthly risk registers.
  • Generates monthly reports for the key risk roles to undertake responsibilities
  • Upholds and reviews risk product quality against associated risk standards.
  • Prepare risk data and undertakes routine risk analysis

Essential

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

  • Ability to apply and operate core requirements of a standard project risk process, including maintenance of risk registers.
  • Experience of planning collaborative risk activities using a range of techniques to facilitate project / programme teams to identify, define, evaluate, respond to and report on risks to project objectives.
  • Awareness and experience of using qualitative and quantitative risk assessment criteria and supporting (with risk owners) the identification of controls and risk responses

Desirable

  • Awareness and/or experience of supporting contract/commercial level risk management activities.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Project Risk qualification, for example APM Risk Cert 1&2
  • APM PFQ
  • Or equivalent qualifications or experience.

Desirable

  • Bachelor’s degree in risk management, project management or relevant technical subject (engineering, science, maths, accounting or economics)
  • Or equivalent qualifications or experience.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview .

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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About risk & resilience roles for ex-police

Risk management, business continuity and emergency-planning roles. Contingency planning, threat assessment and multi-agency coordination experience from policing is directly transferable.

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