Key Notes
High-speed rail risk management spans strategic, operational, commercial and safety issues in this specialist project-controls role. It develops frameworks, runs workshops, tracks mitigations and provides risk insight through reports and dashboards. The permanent London post offers hybrid working. Risk and project qualifications are listed; advanced analytical tools and schedule-risk analysis are desirable.
What You'll Work On
- Develop project risk frameworks and processes and facilitate workshops to identify, assess and review risks and opportunities across multidisciplinary infrastructure teams.
- Maintain risk registers with controls, actions and owners, tracking mitigation effectiveness and escalating significant or unmanaged exposure to senior management.
- Prepare risk analysis, dashboards and recommendations, helping project teams and clients develop practical responses aligned with governance and delivery priorities.
- Support incident reviews, lessons learned and relevant continuity planning and provide guidance or training that improves risk practice across the organisation.
Why This Role Matters
- High-speed rail leaders can make decisions with a clearer view of exposure when risks, controls and owners are maintained and significant issues are escalated.
- Project teams can test whether mitigation is working through tracked actions and risk reviews, helping them adapt responses as delivery conditions and evidence change.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Relevant experience includes infrastructure risk/project-controls work, multidisciplinary workshops, qualitative analysis and quantified cost-risk assessment.
- Technical: Risk databases, analytical reporting and intermediate Microsoft Office skills are sought.
- Qualification: Relevant qualifications include APM/PMI-RMP or equivalent, PRINCE2 or equivalent, IRM or equivalent, and Lean Management or Six Sigma credentials.
- Preferred: Advanced Excel, Primavera Risk Analysis, @RISK, Xactium, ARM, Power BI and quantified schedule-risk analysis are desirable.