Risk Manager, Infrastructure Projects

Description

• Lead day-to-day risk management activities including identification, qualitative and quantitative assessment, mitigation planning, and ongoing review of risks and opportunities.
• Deliver robust risk management services in line with client governance frameworks, processes, and objectives.
• Deliver both embedded and standalone risk interventions, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Embed structured risk processes within programme and project controls, ensuring alignment with planning, change, cost, commercial, and reporting disciplines.
• Act as a risk management champion, engaging and coaching teams across client organisations in the value and application of proactive risk management.
• Develop and implement Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) models—cost, schedule, or integrated—using tools such as @Risk, Safran, and Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Produce tailored, periodic risk reports highlighting key trends, exposures, contingency use, and drawdown profiles to support informed decision-making.
• Support the development of Arcadis’s internal risk capability, including QA of deliverables, mentoring team members, and contributing to service innovation.

Requirements

• Strong experience in construction or infrastructure sectors, ideally across complex, high-value programmes.
• A solid understanding of how risk integrates with project controls disciplines—planning, cost, change control, commercial, and reporting.
• A collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement, with the ability to explain risk in a clear and impactful way.
• Familiarity with Value Management techniques and strategic-level risk delivery is highly desirable.
• Experience using enterprise risk systems such as Active Risk Manager (ARM), Palisade @Risk, Predict!, or Xactium.
• A logical, structured problem-solving mindset with the ability to work through complexity.
• A relevant risk-related qualification such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, or equivalent (or working towards).
• Proven capability in developing and applying QRA techniques, including cost-loaded and logic-linked schedule analysis.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance