Risk Manager

About Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is an international professional services business with a team of more than 22,000 people operating in over 60 countries. The company partners with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve lives and turn complex challenges into successful results. Its services cover programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, along with controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. Turner & Townsend is majority owned by CBRE Group, Inc., with partners holding a significant minority stake.

Role overview

This Risk Manager position is focused on strengthening risk practices across programme and project teams. The role involves helping embed a consistent risk framework, improving the quality and traceability of risk information, and supporting teams in identifying, assessing, and responding to risk in a structured way.

Key responsibilities

• Help teams apply risk management processes in line with the organisation’s risk policy and wider enterprise risk framework.
• Support the introduction of any revised risk practices as part of the risk improvement plan.
• Work closely with the Risk Manager to maintain a uniform approach to risk management across all workstreams.
• Contribute ideas that improve the framework’s audit trail, consistency, and transparency.
• Maintain strong-quality risk records that accurately represent programme and project contexts.
• Assist with workshops across disciplines to identify and evaluate risks at programme and project level.
• Support teams in creating risk responses that are specific, measurable, and actionable.
• Where needed, assist with quantitative risk analysis and help connect risk with cost and schedule inputs.
• Support the Risk Manager with risk training and coaching for team members.
• Promote awareness of the importance and value of risk management within project and programme teams.
• Keep risk registers and supporting documentation up to date, including quality checks on data and reporting outputs such as dashboards.

Experience and qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in programme and project risk management, ideally in Water/Utilities, with infrastructure experience also considered useful.
• Proven ability to design, assess, improve, or implement risk processes, plans, or methodologies.
• Experience using at least one risk database platform such as Pentana, ARM, Risk Controller, or a comparable system.
• Working knowledge of at least one risk modelling tool such as Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran, or similar software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders.
• Good time management and organisational capability.

Additional information

• This is a full-time, permanent position.
• Compensation is competitive and includes a wide range of benefits.
• Pension coverage is provided.
• Annual leave includes 23 days, plus 2 company days and 1 volunteering day.
• The role offers the chance to contribute to meaningful and innovative projects.
• Career progression opportunities are available in Ireland and internationally.
• You will work alongside a diverse, collaborative team of talented colleagues.
• The company promotes a healthy, productive, and flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.
• Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
• No recruitment fee will ever be charged to candidates as part of the hiring process.
• Unsolicited CVs submitted through the company website or to personal email accounts are treated as company property and are not eligible for agency fees unless a formal agreement exists and the recruitment team has invited the agency to submit candidates.