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Project Risk Manager | Defence & Infrastructure

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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Mid level
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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Mid level
The Project Risk Manager will manage risk assessments in a major infrastructure program, collaborating with teams to identify and mitigate risks, conduct quantitative risk analysis, and report findings to stakeholders.
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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. 

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com 

Job Description

This role is based in Adelaide. Candidates must be willing to relocate or already reside in Adelaide.

We are looking for 4 new Project Risk Managers to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide. This role supports a critical infrastructure program as part of a nationally significant endeavour and will play a critical part in the risk assessment function.

The primary purpose of this role is to form part of a project controls precinct team, ensuring that all elements of risk and opportunities in the precinct packages are identified, assigned ownership, analysed and reported, with mitigations/controls/actions captured for implementation. The Risk Manager will coordinate and work with the PCON team and the relevant Precinct delivery teams to collate all QRA inputs.

As a Project Risk Manager, your role will cover:

  • Risk Identification & Ownership: Work closely with the project controls precinct team to ensure all risks and opportunities are identified, assigned, and tracked with clear ownership and mitigation strategies.
  • Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA): Conduct QRAs to inform contingency levels, validate inputs, and monitor risk exposure. Provide scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to support decision making.
  • Reporting & Communication: Develop and present risk dashboards, reports, and presentations to communicate QRA outcomes and highlight key insights to stakeholders.
  • Financial Risk Modelling: Model cash flows over time, assess escalation impacts, and track risk exposure against the remaining risk budget.
  • Collaboration & Compliance: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate risk insights into broader project planning, ensuring alignment with corporate risk standards and procedures.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

  • Citizenship & Clearance: Australian Citizenship and the ability to obtain (or currently hold) an Australian Security Clearance.
  • Risk Management Experience: At least 4 years of experience in risk management, with demonstrated capability at a senior level.
  • Analytical and Commerical Acumen: Strong quantitative skills and commercial awareness, with a high level of accuracy.
  • Technical Proficiency: Experience using risk tools such as Active Risk Manager, Cura, @Risk, Acumen Fuse, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis.
  • Data Visualisation Skills: Familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.

Personal Attributes:

  • Collaborative Mindset: Comfortable working as part of a geographically dispersed team, including remote collaboration with client and site teams.
  • Relationship-Orientated: Friendly, approachable, and relationship focused.
  • Clear Communicator: Able to present complex data and insights in a clear, engaging manner.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

Top Skills

@Risk
Active Risk Manager
Acumen Fuse
Cura
Power BI
Primavera Risk Analysis
Safran
Tableau

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