Risk Practitioner
Assystem
Overview
As Risk Practitioner, you support successful project delivery by identifying and managing risks and opportunities, focusing on risk-informed schedules. You collaborate with Project Controls and delivery teams to reveal uncertainty and its impact on milestones. You will lead risk reviews, maintain risk data across systems, and perform quantitative analyses to forecast outcomes. This role offers exposure to complex, regulated projects and impactful decision support.
Responsibilities- Identify, assess and manage project risks and opportunities
- Develop and maintain risk-based project schedules
- Support risk reviews and workshops with project teams and stakeholders
- Maintain accurate risk information across relevant systems and registers
- Assess schedule uncertainty and impacts on milestones and completion dates
- Carry out quantitative schedule risk analysis to support forecasting and decision-making
- Work with planners and delivery teams to integrate risk into schedules
- Support risk response, mitigation and monitoring activities
- Produce reports highlighting key risks, drivers, uncertainty and trends
- Support continuous improvement of risk processes, tools and techniques
- Proven project risk management experience in a project or programme environment
- Experience developing and analysing risk-based schedules
- Experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis and interpreting results
- Experience supporting risk reviews and workshops
- Strong understanding of risk, scheduling, project controls and forecasting
- Experience using risk management and scheduling software
- Relevant qualification or equivalent experience in risk management, project controls, project management, engineering or related field
- Working knowledge of recognised risk management principles and techniques
- Clear communication of risk impacts
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Analytical mindset for interpreting uncertainty and forecasting
- Risk management
- Scheduling
- Quantitative schedule risk analysis
Reference: WJ-747_31202747