Risk Manager

Overview

Turner & Townsend is a prominent global professional services firm employing over 22,000 professionals across more than 60 countries. We collaborate with clients from real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources sectors to deliver transformative outcomes that enhance people's lives. Our expertise spans programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management alongside procurement, supply chain, net zero strategies, and digital innovations.

Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's foremost commercial real estate services company, Turner & Townsend together with CBRE offers leading programme, project, and cost management services worldwide.

Role Responsibilities

• Implement risk management procedures within teams aligned with the overarching enterprise risk framework and company policy.
• Support integration of updated risk practices per the wider risk improvement strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the Risk Manager to maintain consistency in risk management activities.
• Deliver insights aimed at continuously refining the risk framework, focusing on auditability, consistency, and traceability.
• Assist in maintaining rigorous, transparent risk data reflecting programme and project realities.
• Facilitate cross-disciplinary workshops to aid risk identification and evaluation at both project and programme levels.
• Help project and programme teams formulate clear, actionable, and measurable risk responses.
• Support quantitative risk analysis for assessing exposure and linking risk with cost and scheduling as needed.
• Coordinate risk training sessions and provide coaching under the guidance of the Risk Manager.
• Advocate the importance and benefits of risk management throughout project and programme teams.
• Maintain risk registers and related documentation, ensuring data quality and effective reporting including dashboards.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 8 to 10 years of validated experience in programme and project risk management, preferably within Water/Utilities or infrastructure sectors.
• Proven capability in developing, assessing, or executing risk management processes, plans, or methodologies.
• Proficiency with at least one risk database software such as Pentana, ARM, or Risk Controller.
• Familiarity with risk modeling tools like Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, or Safran.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills enabling effective stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.

Additional Information

• This is a full-time, permanent position.
• Competitive salary with a comprehensive benefits package.
• Includes pension plan.
• Annual leave entitlements comprise 23 days plus 2 company days and 1 volunteering day.
• Engagement in meaningful and innovative projects.
• Opportunities for career progression within Ireland and internationally.
• Work alongside a diverse, talented, and cooperative team.

Turner & Townsend fosters an inclusive workplace demonstrating its values and purpose by empowering employees to generate impactful change. We endorse a balanced, flexible work environment to support both professional and personal success. Our company champions equal opportunity, welcoming diversity from all community sectors.

Note: Candidates should not be charged any fees related to recruitment; only authorized agencies submit applications on our behalf based on formal agreements. Unsolicited CV submissions become company property without agency fee obligations.