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We're looking for skilled, expert and motivated people who'll help us meet our clients’ needs in Transportation, Energy, Water and Defence sectors. Our future success depends on having the very best team of people who will help us to meet our customers’ complex challenges through technical expertise, unique insight, and innovation.

Due to rapid expansion, we have a requirement for a Senior Risk Consultant to join our growing Risk team.

A position within our advisory services business, Senior Risk Consultants deliver complex assignments, developing and implementing innovative solutions to help our clients improve enterprise risk, operational performance and assure project / programme delivery.

We’re looking for individuals who demonstrate a passion for delivering results, an aptitude for tackling complex challenges and the interpersonal skills to influence team success. Whilst practical experience of applying risk management and project management processes and techniques is highly advantageous, excellent communication skills, self-motivation and a strong team ethic are essential attributes.

Key responsibilities

• Delivering technical excellence to our clients as part of a Costain team

• Delivering risk management assignments with our clients to improve performance and help deliver some of the most complex projects and programmes in the UK and abroad

• Identifying opportunities with new and existing clients, and helping to grow our business

• Helping to develop and promote new areas of capability to meet market needs

• Working across our sectors to develop and share risk management best practice

• Ensuring that we provide comprehensive and accurate information to clients by adhering to quality management procedures

• Driving a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and delivering value to our clients

At all times, promoting Costain’s culture and values

About You

Qualifications

• Degree level education

• Proficiency with at least one common risk register tool (SWORD ARM, Xactium, Predict)

• Proficiency with at least one risk analysis tool (Primavera Risk Analysis, Palisade @RISK, Safran)

• APM PMQ or Prince II project qualifications advantageous

Please note that, due to security requirements, this role is only open to sole UK Nationals. The successful applicant will need to obtain an SC Clearance within the first six months if they do not already hold it

Knowledge / Skills / Behaviours

• 2 + years of risk management in a project context

• Knowledge of risk management procedures, practices & techniques

• Experience of producing risk management guidance, and of implementing and improving risk management activities

• Experience of Quantitative Risk Analysis (Schedule or Cost Risk Analysis)

• Understanding of planning, budgeting, change control, earned value and other project controls techniques

• Demonstrable ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with senior stakeholders

• Ability to scope, plan and cost tasks, and then deliver on time and budget

• Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation and presentation skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Good written and oral communication including delivery of high-quality reports, analysis results

• Positive and enthusiastic approach and able to work without day to day supervision

• Passion for delivering innovative and excellent client service

• Flexibility and drive to be able to achieve project objectives and overcome barriers to progress

• Proficient in use of MS Office suite (Word / Excel / PowerPoint)

• Champions ‘doing it right first time and do it safely’ through own actions whilst influencing, encouraging and supporting the wider team to do the same

• Willingly gives up time to support team and others to achieve goals

• Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and takes steps to act on feedback

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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