Risk & NEC4 Change Lead

About The Role Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Risk & NEC4 Change Lead to join our team on the Highways A57 Mottram Moor Link Road Scheme, this role will be based within the Manchester / Longdendale area

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

To lead the effective management of risk and change across the £220m A57 Link Project, ensuring NEC contractual processes are implemented consistently, project risks are proactively managed, opportunities are realised, and the project's entitlement to time and cost recovery is protected.

General

• Lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the project's risk and change management strategy.
• Manage project risk and change reporting, providing clear analysis of trends, exposure, recovery opportunities and key performance indicators.
• Prepare change and risk updates for for Monthly Project Reporting Meetings

Change

• Manage CEMAR contract notifications, including co-ordination of the wider project to support drafting notices and replys.
• Ensure all emerging risks, matters and events are identified early and notified in accordance with NEC timescales.
• Attend Early Warning Meeting with the NEC PM and Customer to provide updates, inviting members of the wider project team to support where necessary.
• Oversee the development, assessment and substantiation of Compensation Events, ensuring quotations are robust, auditable and aligned to the contract.
• Negociate agreement and implementation of Compensation Events.
• Co-ordinate the assessment of time, cost and resource impacts arising from change and ensure impacts are appropriately reflected in the Accepted Programme and project forecasts.
• Chair a bi-weekly change board to ensure any change on the project is approved by the Project Director and Commercial Lead

Risk

• Maintain oversight of the project risk register and ensure risks are supported by clear ownership, mitigation actions and review dates.
• Facilitate regular risk reviews, workshops and governance meetings to keep the risk register live and accurate
• Ensure all project risks and opportunities are identified, assessed, quantified, allocated and actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive a culture of proactive risk management and early intervention across the project team and supply chain.
• Support the preparation and delivery of QSRA, QCRA and other quantitative risk assessments
• Escalate significant risks at the earliest opportunity and support the Senior Leadership Team in understanding project risks, opportunities and commercial exposures.
• Be prepared to challenge risk owners and other individuals on their response to risk
• Manage the release of risk and inflation to the commercial team inline with project governance, keeping trackers and registers update to date and reporting movements at the Monthly MPR

Personal Development

• Maintain an up-to-date Personal Development Plan (PDP) aligned with role progression and learning objectives.
• Progress towards Associate Membership of a recognised professional body such as the RICS or ICES

Who we're looking for

The Following Qualifications Are Essential

• Relevant construction or business degree, or equivalent
• Full driving licence
• Computer literate
• Experience of civil engineering construction
• Strong Risk Management & Early Warning Identification experience
• Experience of NEC4

The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable

• Experience in the highways sector
• Experience of CEMAR or experience of change management via different approaches
• Experience of capturing and analysing risk and issue management data both at a project.
• Skilled and experienced in NEC project and programme management and risk management methodologies.
• Skilled in qualitative and quantitative cost and time risk analysis (QCRA and QSRA).
• Skilled and experienced in the use of risk management systems and tools
• Strong verbal, written and presentational skills with a high level of analytical and numerate skills
• Self-motivated with good interpersonal skills working in a team environment
• Good attention to detail
• Excellent communication and presentational skills
• Able to use initiative

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us? Benefits As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About Us Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]