Senior Risk Specialist

Job Title:              Senior Risk Specialist
Location:              Plymouth, Devon
Compensation:    £43, 935 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF60063

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Risk Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Risk Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As the Senior Risk Specialist, you will be part of an ongoing transformation across our project management and project control functions. You will be driving world class project delivery

performance and gain development and growth opportunities by working closely and having exposure to a variety of teams across the business. 

Day-to-day, you’ll be supporting the integrated project controls team in all aspects of risk management.  

• Providing support to the Risk Manager to maintain standards and assure compliance to policy and process.
• Providing support to the Joint Project Team and Project Manager(s) and make recommendations on all aspects of project risk management to improve effectiveness. 
• Making recommendations to the Joint Project Team regarding the development, maintenance and control of the Risk Register or RAID Register.
• Providing quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis support to the Joint Project Team through probabilistic Monte Carlo simulations and support to Cost Modellers.
• Supporting Project Managers at risk interviews and workshops with key stakeholders, including subcontractors to capture and assess risk information.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard 

Essential experience of the Senior Risk Specialist

• Demonstrable risk management knowledge, with the ability to engage and encourage delivery managers and Subject Matter Experts to contribute to the process and to maintain risk data.
• Fully conversant, or expert user, with risk management software such as Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, Active Risk Management or Risk Hive (but not essential).
• Excellent communication and organisation skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and to manage other team member(s).
• Good investigative, analytical, communication and writing skills are essential.

Qualifications for the Senior Risk Specialist

• Certified Risk Management training with a professional project or risk management institute such as the APM, PMI or IRM

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, 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).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Babcock International 
• For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 13/12/2024

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