Due to continued success and an ever expanding order book within our Award Winning Infrastructure Consultancy Business, we have a requirement for a Risk Consultant ideally with experience within the Transportation, Energy, Water or Defence sectors or Infrastructure Consultancy to join our growing Risk Advisory team.

Roles are predominantly home based with some travel to clients as and when required so flexibility and mobility is essential, salary is negotiable and based on finding the best people for the roles we have.

This position has a competitive salary dependent on skills and experience, in addition to a fantastic benefits package including pension contribution matched up to 10%, a day off for your birthday and a dedicated professional development budget.

We have a vibrant, challenging and growing business, with project environments that provide tremendous opportunities for everybody. We know that by being a more diverse company we will be more innovative, have a greater understanding of our clients’ needs and will deliver smarter, more inclusive solutions for them. Our goal is to have a workforce that is representative of society and the communities in which we work. As an inclusive, family friendly employer we believe that everyone matters, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities to be able to reach their full potential.

Role Requirements

Our Risk Consultants deliver complex assignments, developing and implementing innovative solutions to help our clients improve operational performance and assure project / programme delivery.

We’re looking for individuals who demonstrate a passion for delivering results, an aptitude for tackling complex challenges and the interpersonal skills to influence team success.

• Delivering technical excellence to our clients as part of a Costain team

• Delivering risk management assignments with our clients to improve performance and help deliver some of the most complex projects and programmes in the UK and abroad – this may include:

Identifying opportunities with new and existing clients, and helping to grow our business

• Working across our Transportation, Energy, Water and Defence sectors to develop and share risk management best practice

• Ensuring that we provide comprehensive and accurate information to clients by adhering to quality management procedures

• Degree level education

• Proficiency with at least one common risk register tool (SWORD ARM, Xactium, Predict)

• Proficiency with at least one risk analysis tool (Primavera Risk Analysis, Palisade @RISK, Safran)

• APM PMQ or Prince II project qualifications advantageous

• Champions Sustainability Safety, Health and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive

• Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way

• Must be customer focussed by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating, and meeting their needs.

Please note that, due to security requirements, this role is only open to sole UK Nationals. The successful applicant will need to obtain SC Clearance within the first six months if they do not already hold it.

For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.

About Costain

At Costain, we help to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.

We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK’s infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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