Senior Risk Specialist (Construction)

As a Senior Risk Manager (Construction) at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.  

In this role you will:

• Lead risk management processes, ensuring project risks are identified, assessed, tracked and managed effectively.
• Facilitate risk workshops and meetings with project stakeholders and subject matter experts to agree realistic risk assessments and mitigation actions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive risk registers and risk profiles, ensuring risks are accurately evaluated in terms of cost and schedule impact.
• Conduct quantitative risk analysis (QRA) and develop stress-test scenarios to assess potential impacts on project cost and schedule.
• Monitor project contingency budgets against actual expenditure, reporting on risk exposure and contingency requirements.
• Prepare risk reports for monthly project reviews, escalating risks that exceed agreed thresholds and communicating findings to key stakeholders.
• Support the integration of risk management processes into wider project, programme and portfolio governance.
• Provide risk management guidance and support to project teams, promoting consistent processes and effective risk mitigation.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have a degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline, with a strong background in Risk Management.
• Experience managing risk on large-scale, complex construction projects.
• Understand project cost and schedule impacts, quantitative risk analysis and contingency management.
• Are confident facilitating stakeholder workshops, challenging assumptions and communicating risks effectively.
• Are detail-oriented, analytical and comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Are fluent in written and spoken English.
• Have the flexibility to travel as required for project and client engagements.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.