Principal Risk Specialist

Job Title: Principal Risk Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £58,600, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56549

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Risk Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role:
As a Principal Risk Specialist, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary, bringing additional risk management leadership to major submarines programmes.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for process and applications of risk (threat & opportunity) management across business winning and project delivery phases across multiple programmes, including driving the maturity and professionalism of the discipline along with maintaining control of resource demand and supply.

• Develop and implement the Project Risk Management plan across submarine programmes
• Develop and implement Risk Management policies, procedures and process in line with the Risk Discipline Lead.
• Establish and implement risk management governance within the project
• Act as the Risk Management Subject Matter Expert on projects in the submarine business area
• Manage the risk outputs assurance process, including data, analysis and reporting

This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 - 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Principal Risk Specialist:

• Extensive relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
• Experience of designing and implementing risk management methodologies, processes, systems and tools
• Advanced risk and opportunity management techniques
• Full project lifecycle experience working on complex and major projects
• Experienced in various contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC/JCT)
• Experience leading teams of risk professionals in a matrix organisation

Qualifications for the Principal Risk Specialist:

• Ideally a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Project Management or a related field or equivalent experience
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation - Desirable
• Project Fundamentals qualification - Desirable
• Management of Risk Practitioner or APM Risk L2 - Desirable

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Potential to develop skills.
• Opportunities to develop your career.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 17/04/2024