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At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 120 offices and 47 countries worldwide.
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Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, Turner & Townsend's Infrastructure team in Sydney are looking for a Project Risk Manager with experience in rail, road, airports, power and utilities, or defence sectors to work on State and National projects.
Job Description
The Risk Managers primary focus is on the management and coordination of risk management, ensuring that all elements of risk to the project are identified, analysed, reported and solutions/mitigations developed and implemented.
The main duties of a risk manager are:
1. Coordination of risk management to ensure effective project delivery to the highest industry standards.
2. Undertaking both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment (QRA for cost and prolongation risk related to time activities) to support informed and evidence-based decision making within the project.
3. Building and promoting a risk-aware culture across the project which includes increasing levels of awareness, understanding and commitment to risk management issues.
4. Ensuring a program of individual and small group risk reviews and reports are completed to facilitate an accurate understanding of actual and potential risk exposures across the project and facilitating solutions and mitigations, including any required controls and actions. Capturing the data in a risk register to manage the project risk profile.
5. Completing risk reporting associated with monitoring project contingency and potential scope modifications made during the project.
6. Coordinating and reviewing project status reporting and assisting with arrangements for key governance meetings.
7. Providing subject matter expert advice to the project management team in relation to risk management.
8. Supporting the project controls and contract management functions as required.
Qualifications
9. Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
10. 4+ experience working in complex, large scale multidisciplinary projects in the infrastructure industry (rail, road, aviation, power, utilities, defence, etc).
11. Experience and technical proficiency in using risk databases and risk management systems including systems/software to support quantitative risk analysis @RISK, Active Risk Manager (ARM) and optionally schedule risk analysis Deltek Acumen Risk
12. Strong communication and facilitation skills.
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.