Location
Birmingham

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

As a Senior Risk Consultant, you will deliver risk consulting assignments profitably and with positive feedback, managing small consulting assignments where necessary to support the development of the practice.

Key responsibilities include supporting effective risk management services on projects and/or workstreams within larger projects, drawing on minimal input from Principals, Associates, or Directors; developing and presenting client risk management deliverables; engaging effectively with a wide range of stakeholders regarding corrective actions needed to mitigate threats and utilise opportunities in accordance with organisational processes; supporting project leaders in successful project delivery; providing regular reports to project and risk managers on risk status and advising on contingency management; and establishing and coordinating registers of risk management activities.

The WSP Risk Management Team is a standalone function working across multiple industries, internally with WSP design teams and externally with clients. The team includes risk professionals with diverse backgrounds and seniority levels, based across UK offices including London, Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow, Swindon, and in India at Noida and Bengaluru. As part of a larger global Risk Management team, we collaborate closely with colleagues in North America and the Middle East.

Collaboration and teamwork are fundamental, supported by regular Risk Community of Practice meetings to share challenges and best practices. The team actively pursues innovative ways of working and continuous improvement in service delivery.

Our projects support sustainable growth and development across the UK and internationally, including Africa and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Sectors include highways, rail, aviation, energy, water, defence, waste, clean air, active travel, and more. Our clients are industry leaders, local enterprise companies, and local government organisations, enabling us to support growth and opportunity nationwide.

Experience
- Expertise in all aspects of project risk management facilitation
- Good understanding or experience of building simple cost, schedule, and business risk models using applications such as ARM, Primavera Risk Analyser, Safran Risk, Predict, and Xactium
- Knowledge of risk management techniques
- Knowledge of project management and project control processes
- Experience working on infrastructure projects in at least one of the following sub-sectors: rail, energy, highways, aviation, defence, and/or utility sectors

About you
- Ability to work to own deadlines and under own initiative
- Collaborative team player who embraces continuous improvement and innovation
- Enthusiastic about contributing to a diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications
- Degree qualified (desirable)
- A recognised diploma or degree or qualified by experience with a qualification in risk management (desirable)
- Membership of the Institute of Risk Management, Association for Project Management Risk Practitioner, or other professional associations (desirable)

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.