Risk Manager

  • Edgbaston
  • 7 days ago

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Risk Manager within the PMO Function. This role will be based on site in Based in Edgbaston. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Establishes and communicates the use of appropriate risk management methodologies, tools and techniques with the Head of Risk
  • Ensure clarity and communication of the company’s risk management objectives, direction, policies, risk appetite and risk limits and identifying and managing risk.
  • Works with business unit leaders to establish, maintain and continuously improve opportunity and risk management capabilities and practices.
  • Challenges the business unit's success in managing their risks through regular monitoring and evaluation.
  • Responsible for ensuring capability of the Risk Co-ordinators to deliver training and workshops.
  • Ensure risk management education and training is delivered throughout the business units utilising business unit Risk Co-ordinators.
  • To assist in developing risk mitigation strategies for the organisation’s critical risks and for monitoring these risks through risk registers.

Experienced required

  • 10 years experience of risk management and analysis in a major project environment.
  • Expert user of Excel, Palisade @Risk and Primavera Risk Analysis (QSRA)
  • Preferred familiarity with PowerBI and database systems 
  • Has good written and verbal communication skills 
  • Can deliver written and oral reports in an objective and persuasive manner
  • A self-starter who can manage their own time and proactively seeks and executes activities that will add value to their function

  • Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.


Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance 

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations


About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.