Location
Middlesbrough, Cleveland, United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Costain has secured extensive work across the water sector to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme, with contracts valued up to approximately £670m to Costain over 15 years. Reporting into the Head of Planning / PMO, the Risk Manager will be fully integrated and embedded into the framework with a remit to ensure that project teams meet their risk and opportunity management challenges through improved risk practice and awareness. You will be responsible for managing the implementation and ongoing assurance of governance and any contract-specific requirements.

As a commercially astute Risk Manager, you will collaborate with stakeholders at scheme and framework levels, identifying, analysing, and developing responses to project risks and opportunities, taking ownership and responsibility. You will play a key role in fostering a positive risk and opportunity culture within the framework. By embedding and championing best-practice risk and opportunity management tools and techniques across allocated programmes, you will enable timely, efficient, safe, and customer-focused delivery.

Responsibilities
- Ensure risk mitigation measures are progressed in response to EWN’s Draft and update the contract Risk Management Plan
- Manage risk and continuously develop the risk and opportunity register into a management tool containing accurate and relevant information for reporting purposes
- Risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, contractual allocation and preparing action plans
- Manage the Risk and Opportunity Register
- Facilitate risk and opportunity workshops as required
- Risk and opportunity reporting, ensuring information is consistently accurate and relevant
- Develop, implement and oversee effective and credible risk response and mitigation plans
- Ensure senior management team are sufficiently informed on the project risk and opportunity position
- Act as a conduit for escalation of risk or failure to obtain opportunities in line with established processes
- Challenge risk and opportunity owners and other individuals on their response to risk and securing opportunities
- Contribute to continual improvement in risk processes and the development of a risk mature culture across the project
- Produce risk and opportunity reports and dashboards in line with project requirements

Experience
Skilled and experienced in NEC project and programme management and risk management methodologies. Proficient in the use of risk and opportunity management systems and tools.

About you
Self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills, able to work effectively within a team environment. Excellent attention to detail with strong verbal, written, and presentational skills. High level of analytical and numerate skills. Able to use initiative and challenge appropriately.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in risk and opportunity management within large infrastructure projects is desirable.