Project Risk Practitioner

• Proficient in the use of risk tools and techniques

• Knowledge of developing a risk strategy and plan and experience of producing and maintaining risk registers across a range of project areas

• Technical aptitude with a high level of understanding of project management, engineering, regulatory, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning activities and their relation to project costs

• Minimum of HNC/HND ideally in an Engineering discipline or relevant experience

• Professional membership of an appropriate institution (e.g. ACostE or equivalent)

• Degree level education
• Existing Safety or business qualifications

Costain helps to improve people's lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK's energy, water and transportation infrastructures. Costain supports Energy Nuclear Generation to maximise the lifespan of its eight UK nuclear power stations. Costain's role is to provide project controls and commercial managed services to portfolios and programmes of work across all of EDF's eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.

• Identifying the risk exposure facing the project or projects responsible for
• Understanding the opportunities as well as the threats facing the project, and report these to the Project Manager as required
• Prioritising risks according to impact and probability of occurrence
• Assess, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques, the threats, opportunities, probability and impact of the identified risks
• Supporting the Project Manager in developing a risk strategy and plan that supports project delivery of which the risk register must be a part
• Establishing, maintaining and regularly reviewing the project risk plan
• Arrange timely risk reviews with risk owners and project team members as required
• Monitor and analyse event risks compared to the baseline analysis and evaluations
• Identify the stages through which the programme/project risk register should be developed
• Identify, plan and monitor, with the Project Manager, Cost Estimator, Cost Engineer and Planning Engineer, mitigation measures, reviewing risks as they are mitigated, and updating the risk plan and register accordingly
• Report an accurate and current event risk position to the Cost Engineer