At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead risk management for critical infrastructure projects and ensure effective risk assessment.
- Company: Join Turner & Townsend, a global leader in professional services with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Flexible work environment, career growth opportunities, and a commitment to work-life balance.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace that values every voice and promotes personal success.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on significant national projects while developing your skills in risk management.
- Qualifications: 4+ years in risk management, strong analytical skills, and experience with risk tools.
The predicted salary is between 123300 - 150700 $ per year.
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
We are looking for a Senior Project Risk Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide. This role supports a critical infrastructure program as part of a nationally significant endeavour and will play a critical part in the risk assessment function. The primary purpose of this role is to form part of a project controls precinct team, ensuring that all elements of risk and opportunities in the precinct packages are identified, assigned ownership, analysed and reported, with mitigations/controls/actions captured for implementation.
The Risk Manager will coordinate and work with the PCON team and the relevant Precinct delivery teams to collate all QRA inputs. As a Project Risk Manager, your role will cover:
- Risk Identification & Ownership: Work closely with the project controls precinct team to ensure all risks and opportunities are identified, assigned, and tracked with clear ownership and mitigation strategies.
- Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA): Conduct QRAs to inform contingency levels, validate inputs, and monitor risk exposure. Provide scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to support decision making.
- Reporting & Communication: Develop and present risk dashboards, reports, and presentations to communicate QRA outcomes and highlight key insights to stakeholders.
- Financial Risk Modelling: Model cash flows over time, assess escalation impacts, and track risk exposure against the remaining risk budget.
- Collaboration & Compliance: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate risk insights into broader project planning, ensuring alignment with corporate risk standards and procedures.
Qualifications Essential Requirements:
- Citizenship & Clearance: Australian Citizenship and the ability to obtain (or currently hold) an Australian Baseline Security Clearance OR be a UK Citizen with current UK clearance.
- Risk Management Experience: At least 4 years of experience in risk management, with demonstrated capability at a senior level.
- Analytical and Commercial Acumen: Strong quantitative skills and commercial awareness, with a high level of accuracy.
- Technical Proficiency: Experience using risk tools such as Active Risk Manager, Cura, @Risk, Acumen Fuse, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis.
- Data Visualisation Skills: Familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
Personal Attributes:
- Collaborative Mindset: Comfortable working as part of a geographically dispersed team, including remote collaboration with client and site teams.
- Relationship-Orientated: Friendly, approachable, and relationship focused.
- Clear Communicator: Able to present complex data and insights in a clear, engaging manner.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Senior Project Risk Manager in Adelaide employer: Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Adelaide where collaboration and innovation thrive. With a strong commitment to employee growth, we provide opportunities for professional development and a healthy work-life balance, ensuring that our team members can excel both personally and professionally. Our inclusive culture celebrates diversity and empowers every individual to contribute meaningfully to impactful infrastructure projects that enhance communities.
