Risk Manager, Infrastructure Projects

Arcadis; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK seeks an experienced Risk Manager for infrastructure projects. You will engage with clients to identify and manage risks, ensuring effective risk processes are integrated across project controls. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and strong experience in construction, using tools like @Risk and Primavera. This role offers a collaborative environment and a commitment to equality and diversity.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in construction or infrastructure sectors.
• Proven capability in developing and applying QRA techniques.
• Collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver robust risk management services based on client frameworks.
• Lead risk management activities like identification and assessment.
• Produce tailored, periodic risk reports for decision-making.

Skills

Risk management

Critical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

QRA techniques

Problem-solving

Education

APM Risk Certificate or equivalent

Tools

Active Risk Manager

Palisade @Risk

Primavera Risk Analysis

Job description

Overview

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Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: We’re looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Mobility business, working on some of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure programmes. You’ll also support a portfolio of clients in sectors including highways, aviation, utilities, and new build construction. In this role, you’ll be embedded into project and programme environments, helping clients identify, assess, and manage risks effectively. You’ll bring structure, insight, and strategic thinking to risk management, ensuring it’s integrated across project controls functions to deliver more predictable outcomes.

Role accountabilities:

• Deliver robust risk management services in line with client governance frameworks, processes, and objectives.
• Lead day-to-day risk management activities including identification, qualitative and quantitative assessment, mitigation planning, and ongoing review of risks and opportunities.
• Develop and implement Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) models—cost, schedule, or integrated—using tools such as @Risk, Safran, and Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Produce tailored, periodic risk reports highlighting key trends, exposures, contingency use, and drawdown profiles to support informed decision-making.
• Embed structured risk processes within programme and project controls, ensuring alignment with planning, change, cost, commercial, and reporting disciplines.
• Act as a risk management champion, engaging and coaching teams across client organisations in the value and application of proactive risk management.
• Deliver both embedded and standalone risk interventions, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Support the development of Arcadis’s internal risk capability, including QA of deliverables, mentoring team members, and contributing to service innovation.

Qualifications & Experience: We’re seeking someone who brings technical excellence, critical thinking, and a client-focused mindset to the role. Ideally, you will have:

• A relevant risk-related qualification such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, or equivalent (or working towards).
• Strong experience in construction or infrastructure sectors, ideally across complex, high-value programmes.
• Proven capability in developing and applying QRA techniques, including cost-loaded and logic-linked schedule analysis.
• Experience using enterprise risk systems such as Active Risk Manager (ARM), Palisade @Risk, Predict!, or Xactium.
• A solid understanding of how risk integrates with project controls disciplines—planning, cost, change control, commercial, and reporting.
• A collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement, with the ability to explain risk in a clear and impactful way.
• A logical, structured problem-solving mindset with the ability to work through complexity.
• Familiarity with Value Management techniques and strategic-level risk delivery is highly desirable.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We value equality and inclusion and aim to be an employer of choice, providing a great place to work for all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.