Risk Manager – Major Infrastructure Project

🌟 Position: Risk Manager – Major Infrastructure Project 📍 Location: 2 days on site (London) 3 days remote 💼 Type: Full-time 📅 Start Date: Immediate We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Project Controls team and play a key role supporting one of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure programmes. Working as part of a major capital delivery environment, you will be responsible for supporting the effective identification, assessment and management of project risks across a complex programme of work. You will work closely with Project Controls, Planning, Commercial, Cost and Project Management teams to provide robust risk insight and help ensure that project decisions are informed by a clear understanding of uncertainty and exposure. This is a project risk-focused role , rather than an enterprise or corporate risk position. The successful candidate will have strong experience of quantitative risk analysis, QSRA, cost and schedule risk analysis and project risk modelling , ideally gained within major construction, infrastructure, engineering or other complex capital programmes. About us CMR is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. We are a progressive and dynamic consultancy offering tailored project controls services across a range of industries. Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry. Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention. 🔹 What’s in it for you? At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before. If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop quickly. We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas. Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference. We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough. The opportunity to work on a major, nationally significant infrastructure programme , gaining exposure to some of the most complex project risk challenges in the UK. 🔹 You’ll Lead and support the implementation of project risk management processes across complex infrastructure and construction projects. Own and maintain project risk registers, ensuring risks are clearly defined in terms of causes, events, impacts, probability, consequence and mitigation actions . Facilitate risk identification and review workshops with Project Management, Planning, Commercial, Engineering and other project stakeholders. Challenge project teams to ensure risks are appropriately identified, assessed, quantified and actively managed. Undertake and support Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA) to assess the potential impact of uncertainty on project outcomes. Develop and maintain risk models , incorporating cost and schedule uncertainty, risk events, correlations and appropriate probability distributions. Support the development and review of risk allowances, contingency and management reserves , ensuring these are supported by robust quantitative analysis. Analyse project cost and schedule exposure and provide insight into P-values, confidence levels, ranges and potential outcomes . Integrate risk information with project cost and schedule data to provide a consolidated view of project exposure. Work closely with Planning and Project Controls teams to understand the relationship between risk, uncertainty, programme and critical path . Monitor the effectiveness of mitigation strategies and ass