Senior Risk Manager

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. Job Description_Start here. Grow here._ At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Risk Manager to join in our Dublin office. The Senior Risk Manager will be required to attend site three days per week and two days per week will be remote working. The Senior Risk Manager provides leadership in the delivery of risk management services across complex capital projects within a consulting environment. The role leads the identification, assessment, and management of project risks, while offering expert guidance to clients and project teams to ensure risks are proactively and effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle. Here’s what you’ll do: Your day to day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Lead the development, implementation, and continual improvement of project and programme-level risk management processes aligned with client requirements and industry best practice.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage a wide range of project risks, including financial, commercial, operational, schedule, and delivery risks.
• Plan and facilitate risk identification workshops, risk reviews, and assurance sessions with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and assure high-quality risk registers and RAID logs, ensuring risks are clearly articulated, appropriately scored, and effectively tracked.
• Undertake and oversee qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including risk modelling, and provide clear interpretation of results to inform decision-making.
• Work closely with project controls, cost, planning, and commercial teams to ensure risk outputs are fully integrated into forecasts, schedules, and performance reporting.
• Monitor and report on risk exposure, trends, emerging risks, and mitigation effectiveness, providing concise, actionable insights to clients and leadership teams.
• Support and challenge project teams in the development and implementation of robust risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Ensure risk data is accurate, current, and reflective of the project’s evolving risk profile.
• Provide expert risk management advice, coaching, and mentoring to project teams and junior risk practitioners.
• Contribute to the development of organisational risk capability, standards, tools, and best practices within the consulting business.

QualificationsReady to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for: As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our aviation markets along with having the following qualifications and experience:

• Typically 8+ years’ experience delivering risk management and/or project controls within complex capital projects.
• Strong experience operating in a consulting or client-facing environment, with a proven ability to build trusted relationships.
• Demonstrated expertise in qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including risk modelling and scenario analysis.
• Advanced hands-on experience using industry-standard risk management and modelling tools.
• Proven experience working with multidisciplinary project teams, including cost, planning, commercial, and delivery functions.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional qualifications in risk management, project management, or related disciplines (e.g. APM, PMI, IRM) are desirable.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you! Additional Information Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more! For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan. About AECOM AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.