Risk Manager - North (Perm)

As a Risk Manager at HS2 you will provide risk management services including the identification, management and control of risk within a HS2 Delivery Project or Programme as set out in HS2 risk management procedures.

About the role:

• Provide risk (threats and opportunity) management activities to actively control risk and seek efficiencies.
• Provide risk assessment services, including quantified cost and schedule risk assessments.
• Maintain project risk registers and support risk management and mitigation activities, ensuring input from accountable managers and internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the Senior Risk Manager (Area).
• Work closely with delivery, project controls, commercial and financial teams.
• Collaborate with risk professionals in the wider HS2 organisation and supply chain.
• Ensure the implementation of and compliance with risk management standards and guidance throughout the project life cycle.
• Support the joint review and evaluation of risks with delivery teams, contractors and suppliers.
• Maintain active links between risk management and other project management processes.
• Provide specialist risk management support across the HS2 Project and Programme teams, as required.

About You:

Knowledge

• Demonstrable technical knowledge of all aspects of project and programme risk management and techniques.
• Knowledge of current project management and project control processes, particularly on major infrastructure and/or rail projects.

Skills

• Experience of risk management progress tracking including implementation of risk mitigation actions for identified risks across projects.
• Track record of building and managing working relationships with stakeholders (internal and external)
• Proven ability to build complex cost and schedule risk models commensurate to maturity of projects and programmes.
• Able to explain risk analysis tasks and results to non-specialists.
• Proven ability to deliver outputs to tight deadlines in a highly pressured environment demonstrating flexibility, determination and resilience.

• Ability to work both in a team environment and autonomously, motivating self and others.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a project risk role within large-scale infrastructure projects/commercial construction projects.
  

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.