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At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Ferrovial is also leading the development of the New Terminal One at JFK International Airport. Ferrovial shares trade under the ticker symbol FER on two stock markets: Nasdaq in the U.S. (Nasdaq100 Index) and the Spanish Stock Exchanges (IBEX 35). Ferrovial is included in globally recognized sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Index. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 22,000 professionals worldwide. Ferrovial’s activity is carried out through our business units, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.\nFerrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.\nWhy Ferrovial?\nGlobal presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.\nCollaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued. \nInclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.\nCareer growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.\nCompelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.\nProductivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.\nJob Description:\nRisk Manager\nFerrovial BAM JV has a strong track record of delivering major UK infrastructure projects and is now responsible for the track infrastructure across the full HS2 route.\nThe Risk Manager will lead risk and opportunity management across the Track North project, providing an integrated approach to risk identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation and reporting. The role will ensure contractual compliance, strengthen project controls and provide clear risk insight to support effective commercial and project decision-making.\nLocation: Birmingham\nKey Responsibilities\nRisk & Opportunity Management\nLead Risk and Opportunity Management in line with Ferrovial-BAM Rail Systems JV procedures and project controls.\nPromote proactive risk management across Commercial, Planning, Design, Engineering, Procurement, Delivery, Quality, Safety, Environment, Interfaces and Stakeholder Management.\nMaintain an accurate Risk and Opportunity Register, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, assessed, quantified, mitigated and assigned to accountable owners, with accurate inputs provided to the Business Unit Forecast (BUF).\nMaintain clear links between risks and opportunities, Early Warning Notices, Compensation Events, assumptions, constraints, changes and programme activities, avoiding duplication across registers.\nEnsure realised risks remain actively managed until their remaining exposure and associated commercial, programme and reporting impacts are resolved.\nLead risk workshops and constructively challenge risk owners to ensure assessments and mitigations are robust and appropriately evidenced.\nCapture and apply lessons learned to strengthen future risk identification, assessment and mitigation.\nRisk Analysis & Project Controls\nLead Quantitative Schedule Risk Assessments (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Assessments (QCRA) in line with contractual and project requirements.\nMaintain the risk-management systems, templates and processes required under the Contract.\nCoordinate regular reviews of the risk-adjusted Estimate at Completion (EAC) with Commercial, Finance, Project Controls and discipline leads.\nPrepare time-phased risk-cost forecasts for integration into project and financial reporting.\nAnalyse and explain movements in risk exposure between reporting periods, supported by updated assessments and evidence.\nDrive continuous improvement in risk reporting, including risk rationalisation, quantification and consistent treatment of open risks.\nReporting & Stakeholder Management\nLead the monthly risk-reporting cycle, ensuring alignment across risk, cost, commercial, change, programme and internal forecasts.\nLead or support monthly risk reviews with HS2, including preparation of information, responses to comments and management of agreed actions.\nProvide clear, evidence-based risk insight to the Project Director, Commercial team and wider leadership team to support informed decision-making.\nEssential Experience\nSubstantial risk-management experience within major infrastructure, rail, civil engineering or complex construction projects.\nDemonstrable experience of QSRA and QCRA, including probabilistic risk modelling and Monte Carlo simulation.\nStrong understanding of programme risk, critical path analysis, milestone confidence and schedule contingency.\nExperience working with Primavera P6 schedules and programme data; direct operation of P6 is desirable.\nExperience integrating risk with cost forecasting, EAC, change management and project reporting.\nExperience managing multidisciplinary risk and opportunity registers and leading risk workshops.\nStrong understanding of commercial and contractual risk within target-cost or collaborative infrastructure contracts.\nExperience engaging effectively with clients, auditors, senior stakeholders and risk owners.\nAbility to translate complex risk analysis into clear recommendations, decisions and actions.\nDesirable Experience\nPrevious experience on HS2 or another UK rail or major infrastructure programme.\nExperience of NEC contracts and CEMAR.\nExperience using Primavera P6 Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Deltek Acumen Risk or comparable quantitative risk-analysis software.\nQualifications & Professional Competencies\nEssential\nDegree or equivalent professional experience in Risk Management, Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls or a related discipline.\nAdvanced Excel skills.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nDesirable\nMembership of APM, IRM, RICS, CICES or an equivalent professional body.\nRecognised risk-management or project-management qualification.\n*Please note that this job description does not represent a comprehensive list of activities and employees may be requested to undertake other reasonable duties.\nSeize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. 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