Project Risk Specialist
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Turner & Townsend scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join a Team Where Your Perspective Matters
At Turner & Townsend, you'll benefit from strong professional development and international exposure, as well as comprehensive health and wellbeing support. Employees also frequently highlight our positive work-life balance and the flexibility offered through hybrid working opportunities.
We know that diverse teams deliver better outcomes and we actively welcome people of all identities, backgrounds, and career journeys. If you're looking for a place where your voice is valued, your potential is supported, and your work has real impact, we'd love to meet you.
Our Cost Centre, Programme Performance, combines practical transformation delivery with advanced risk insight to help organisations make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and deliver consistent programme performance. Our service offerings span Defence, Rail, Infrastructure, Digital and AI, providing support across the full project lifecycle.
Help Deliver Some of the UK's Most Important Programmes
At Turner & Townsend, our risk specialists help clients understand uncertainty, make informed decisions and deliver successful outcomes across major UK programmes across infrastructure, government, defence, transport and energy sectors. As our portfolio grows, we are looking for talented risk professionals who want to build client relationships, work on major programmes and develop their careers in a supportive environment.
Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC). See Security Clearance Section.
The Opportunity
You will work with clients to identify, assess and manage risk throughout the project lifecycle, helping teams improve decision making and delivery confidence. Working across a variety of programmes, you will build sector experience while developing specialist expertise in project risk management.
What You'll Be Doing
- Facilitate risk workshops and stakeholder discussions
- Develop and maintain project and programme risk registers
- Assess risks and opportunities against project objectives
- Produce clear and insightful risk reporting
- Support risk management plans, frameworks and governance
- Work with project managers, project controls teams and senior stakeholders
- Support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
- Drive continuous improvement of risk processes and tools
- Promote proactive risk management cultures with clients
- Present risk insights to senior client stakeholders
- Influence project decisions through risk-based recommendations
Developing Your Risk Career
Our work spans the full spectrum of project risk management, including risk facilitation, risk and opportunity management, assurance and governance, reporting and visualisation, project controls integration, quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, and advanced risk modelling. Experience in quantitative risk analysis is beneficial but not essential; we welcome candidates keen to develop these skills.
What We're Looking For
We are interested in candidates with experience in risk management, project controls, PMO, planning or project delivery, ideally within Defence, Rail, Infrastructure, Digital or AI programmes.
- Experience applying risk management within project or programme environments.
- Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks aligned to ISO 31000, The Orange Book or similar recognised standards.
- Experience facilitating risk reviews and workshops, with the ability to translate risk information into clear insights for decision-making.
- Practical experience of quantitative risk analysis (QRA) and risk modelling, or a desire to develop these skills.
- Familiarity with risk and project controls tools such as ARM, Safran Predict!, Primavera Risk Analysis, Power BI and advanced Excel.
- An understanding of wider project controls disciplines including planning, cost, forecasting and change management.
- Experience working within major programmes across Defence, Rail, Infrastructure, Digital or related sectors.
- Degree qualified (or equivalent) with relevant professional qualifications such as APM PMQ, APM Risk Level 2, MoR, IRM certifications or similar being advantageous.
Turner & Townsend recognises the importance of helping its employees harmonise their work and home life by offering hybrid working, that enable them to balance their working life with other priorities. At the same time T&T recognises that employee office and site attendance must always remain in line with the demands of the business and clients. Currently, we anticipate you being on client sites or Turner & Townsend offices 60% of your time, but this may flex depending on client and business requirements. The office is not the only place work gets done, but it is increasingly important for teams to be stronger together by learning, collaborating, and creating amazing work together.
Security Clearance
Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).
Many of the clients and projects we support are subject to MoD security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, time out of country, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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