Location
Manchester

Hours
Full Time - standard working hours

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together. Resilience is one of Arcadis’ core business lines, operating across sectors including water, energy, environmental, and industrial. Our projects range from nationally significant infrastructure schemes to mass volume utility works.

As a Risk Analyst within Arcadis’ Energy Networks & Renewables team, you will focus on key renewable energy projects, programmes, and portfolios across transmission and distribution sectors. You will lead and deliver risk management activities with a strong emphasis on Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA). Your role will involve identifying, analysing, and managing cost, schedule, and business risks, supporting commercial decision-making, and embedding best-practice risk processes across delivery teams.

This role is suitable for candidates at different career stages, with responsibilities calibrated accordingly. You will ensure high-quality delivery, develop team capability, and support client account growth.

The main purpose of the role is to:
- Work with project teams to implement effective risk management processes, procedures, and best practices.
- Develop and deliver risk management consultancy services to major clients.
- Act as a technical expert within Resilience, providing subject matter input on pursuits and project objectives.

Due to growth plans across Northern England and the West Midlands, we seek energetic and well-rounded risk management professionals to provide solutions for key clients across transportation, infrastructure, and buildings sectors.

Key accountabilities include:
- Delivering risk management services in compliance with client governance and objectives.
- Undertaking day-to-day risk management activities including identification, assessment, management, review, and reporting of risks, issues, and opportunities.
- Producing periodic risk reports including profiled risk expenditure and risk exposure changes.
- Advising project teams on mitigation, contingency, risk allocation, and commercial implications.
- Developing, validating, and running Quantitative Risk Analysis (Cost, Schedule, and integrated analyses) to enable robust forecasting and tracking.
- Ensuring identification and management of all significant risks to project objectives.
- Delivering discrete risk interventions and embedded risk management services, supporting governance and escalation.
- Coaching and mentoring junior team members (for senior roles) and contributing to capability building.
- Driving continuous improvement in tools, processes, and data quality for risk management.

Experience
- Practical experience in project, programme, or enterprise risk management (level varies by role).
- Experience in regulated environments, particularly in Energy.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to build and interpret risk models and present probabilistic outcomes.
- Experience applying Quantitative Risk Analysis techniques and tools such as @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management tools like Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict!, and Xactium.
- Understanding of construction contracts and the relationship between risk management and project controls including change control, planning, cost, commercial management, and reporting.
- Evidence of defining and delivering risk management plans within projects.

About you
- Clear written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex information simply.
- Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills.
- Collaborative working style and consulting behaviours.
- Logical thinker able to coordinate multi-faceted project aspects.
- Self-motivated and proactive with ability to work independently.

Qualifications
- Desire to work towards relevant professional certification such as APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate/Diploma.