Job Description

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Resilience is one of Arcadis’ core business lines and operates across several sectors including water, energy, environmental and industrial. We provide valued advice and support to leading clients who supply the population with the resources used in our daily lives. Our projects range from nationally significant infrastructure schemes to mass volume utility works.

As a Risk Manager you will be working within Arcadis’ Energy Networks & Renewables team, focusing on key renewable energy projects across the transmission & distribution sectors.

The role will lead the delivery of our Risk Management capability across major projects or portfolios, with a strong emphasis on QSRA / QCRA work. You will ensure high-quality delivery, develop team capability, and support client account growth.

The main purpose of the role is to:

• Work closely with and provide support to our Project and Programme Management UK teams in development of our risk management service.
• Work with project teams to implement effective risk management processes, procedures and best practice into their projects
• Develop and deliver risk management consultancy services to a wide range of major Clients
• Act as a technical expert within Resilience, providing subject matter input on pursuits and to project team members in line with project or programme objectives.

Role Accountabilities:

• Deliver risk management services to clients in compliance with client governance, processes and objectives.
• Undertake day-to-day risk management activities including identification, assessment, management, review and reporting of risks and opportunities.
• Produce periodic risk reporting which may include profiled risk expenditure, impacted risk / contingency drawdown and risk exposure changes.
• Develop Quantitative Risk Analysis including Cost, Schedule and integrated Cost and Schedule analyses, to enable robust forecasting and tracking of risk exposure.
• Use knowledge and experience to ensure identification and management of all significant risks to achievement of project objectives.
• Deliver discrete risk interventions and embedded risk management services.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential:

• Desire to work towards relevant professional certification, such as APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate
• Experienced in developing and improving risk management services and capabilities.
• Experience in the regulated environments, with a particular focus on Energy.
• Experience in the application of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) techniques and tools, for example: @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis (previously Pertmaster), Safran including the analysis of complex logic-linked cost-loaded schedules.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management tools, for example, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict! and Xactium.
• Understanding of construction contracts and the relationship between risk management and controls/management functions including: project management, change control, planning & scheduling, cost & commercial management and reporting.
• Evidence of previous experience in definition and delivery of risk management plans within projects.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Collaborative working style and consulting behaviours.
• A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently

Desirable:

• Membership of a professional body (e.g. APM, IRM)
• Risk Management qualification, for example IRM International Certificate, APM Risk Certificate, or Axelos M_o_R
• An understanding of planning techniques and tools, including P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Awareness of Value Management processes and techniques.
• Experience delivering risk management at Programme or Strategic levels.
• Experience in application of a variety of contract forms across major projects
• Experience of applying risk management at a project, portfolio and programme level

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.