Senior Risk Manager
// Role Summary
Lead the development and implementation of risk and opportunity management strategies for high-impact nuclear and clean energy projects as a Senior Risk Manager. Ensure robust decision-making across the project lifecycle and contribute to a safe and secure world.
// Key Responsibilities
- Pivotal role in high-impact nuclear, clean energy, and international projects.
- Lead risk and opportunity management planning and execution.
- Analyze risks and provide insightful reports with recommendations.
- Build and assure quantitative risk models (cost, schedule, uncertainty).
- Manage contingency and align risks with financial objectives.
- Embed best practices in risk management through training and guidance.
// Role Specification
Senior Risk Manager
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Risk Manager at one of our key locations in Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire).
As a Senior Risk Manager, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the successful delivery of high-impact projects across nuclear services, clean energy, and international programmes. You will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of risk and opportunity management practices, ensuring robust decision-making across the full project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing project risk and opportunity management plans aligned with business and commercial requirements.
- Analysing risks and producing insightful performance reports with clear recommendations to stakeholders.
- Building and assuring quantitative risk models covering cost, schedule, and uncertainty analysis.
- Managing contingency and ensuring risks are aligned with financial and commercial objectives.
- Delivering training and guidance to project teams to embed best practice in risk management.
This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at one of our key locations in Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire), with travel to other Cavendish and customer sites expected.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrating experience in risk management within a highly regulated industry such as nuclear, defence, or infrastructure.
- Applying advanced risk modelling techniques, including quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
- Building and developing robust risk models to support project delivery.
- Working in specialist risk or opportunity management roles across the project lifecycle.
- Understanding contracting methodologies such as FIDIC, NEC3/NEC4 or JCT.
Qualifications:
- A relevant qualification in risk management or project management (desirable).
- Professional certifications in planning or project controls (advantageous).
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and SC security clearance for this role.