Senior Risk Specialist

As a Senior Risk Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering risk and opportunity management across projects of national importance. This role is full time, based in Glasgow. Hybrid working patterns are available with a minimum of two days per week onsite. The role is contracted to 37 hours per week. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading risk and opportunity management activities across all stages of the project lifecycle, from bid phase through to project close-out
• Developing and implementing project risk and opportunity management plans that align with business, commercial, and regulatory requirements
• Facilitating risk identification workshops, assessments, and treatment planning to minimise threats and maximise opportunities
• Producing insightful risk analysis and performance reporting, including recommendations for project and business leaders
• Managing contingency planning and ensuring risk management activities support financial, commercial and delivery objectives
• Chair risk management reviews with senior internal & external stakeholders
• Production of risk management dashboards
  Exposure to infrastructure projects in areas including nuclear, defence, energy, engineering or construction
• Demonstrable experience in a specialist risk and opportunity management role
• Experience supporting projects throughout the full project lifecycle; from bid development to completion
• Experienced in the use of software including Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA) / Pertmaster, Active Risk Manager (ARM) and Excel based platforms
• Awareness of contract forms and commercial frameworks including NEC3 or NEC4
• Experience working within an engineering, design, project controls, or project delivery environment, Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Risk Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification in Risk Management is desirable
• Membership of a recognised professional body is also an advantage (i.e. IRM or APM)
Security Clearance, The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (
At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Risk Specialist at our Glasgow site.
What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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 UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.