Associate Director- Risk

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 650 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways. We have exciting opportunities for Associate Directors in Risk to join our expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Infrastructure major projects and programmes. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced professionals to lead PMO risk management whilst supporting the development of our risk management capability. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our wider Controls and Performance community. As a PMO Risk Manager at Associate Director level, you will be accountable for the quality and delivery of risk and opportunity management services across assigned water and infrastructure projects and programmes. You will lead risk management teams and workstreams, provide specialist advice to clients and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners to embed effective risk management within the PMO. You will support the Director or Risk Lead in implementing the wider risk framework, while independently managing your assigned scope and escalating significant risks and decisions appropriately.   Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend: Associate Directors specialising in PMO risk management at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes: • Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment • Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives • Proven experience leading risk management teams or workstreams across major projects and programmes, to deliver effective, consistent, assured processes with accountability for the quality and delivery of services within an agreed scope • Strong technical knowledge of risk and opportunity management principles, methods, techniques, systems and toolkits, with experience developing and implementing risk management frameworks within a PMO function tailored to client’s needs and aligning to best practice • Experience managing risk and opportunity processes throughout the project lifecycle, including identification, assessment, prioritisation, response planning and monitoring, covering operational, strategic and retained risks • Driving continuous improvement in risk management to create efficiency, maximise benefits, and promote a culture of enhancement and learning • Ability to provide specialist risk advice, challenge risk assessments and assumptions, and agree practical mitigation actions with risk owners, escalating significant exposures and decisions to the Director, Risk Lead or appropriate governance forum • Experience reviewing, scrutinising and assuring