Job Description Summary
Job Description
Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager
Grid Solutions | HVDC Consortium Project Organisation | Stafford, UK
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in Europe's energy transformation — managing risk at the heart of one of the most complex and exciting HVDC projects in the world?
GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager to join our Grid Solutions, HVDC Consortium Project Organisation team based in Stafford, United Kingdom.
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GE Vernova — The Energy to Change the World
With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonise it. Our name reflects our mission. "GE" carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" signals Earth's lush ecosystems, while "Nova" nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.
Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.
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Electrification
Our Electrification solutions modernise grids, enable renewable integration, and strengthen energy systems. From software to power conversion and storage, we help create smarter, more resilient energy networks.
Within this space, HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) is a key differentiating technology for Grid Solutions — and a central focus for our business across Europe, where Transmission System Operators are pursuing some of the most ambitious renewable energy targets in the world.
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Let's Talk about the Role
The Senior Risk & Opportunity Manager will lead end-to-end Risk and Opportunity management for a major, complex HVDC project delivered within a Consortium Project Organisation.
Supporting projects typically valued at £500 million or more, you will establish, implement and govern the Risk and Opportunity framework at consortium level. Working across a large, multicultural and international project team, you will ensure that risks and opportunities are identified, assessed, quantified and actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
This is a senior individual-contributor role requiring strong technical risk expertise, commercial awareness and the confidence to influence project leaders, consortium partners, clients and risk owners. You will take a proactive approach to driving mitigation actions, realising opportunities and providing leadership with clear insight into project cost, schedule and delivery exposure.
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How You Will Make a Difference
- Define, implement and continuously improve the Risk and Opportunity management process at consortium level, ensuring alignment with contractual frameworks and project governance requirements.
- Own and maintain the project Risk and Opportunity register, ensuring risks and opportunities are appropriately identified, assessed, quantified, assigned and actively managed.
- Work closely with risk owners to establish effective mitigation actions, proactively monitor progress and drive actions through to closure.
- Lead the identification, assessment and realisation of project opportunities, including cost savings, cost avoidance and wider value-creation initiatives.
- Deliver Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis — QSRA and QCRA — for projects and tenders, translating complex statistical outputs into clear and actionable recommendations.
- Lead the project change-control process, ensuring that proposed changes are identified, assessed and governed with clear visibility of their cost, schedule, contractual and risk implications.
- Facilitate and chair project risk reviews and workshops with project teams, consortium partners, clients and other key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain project Risk and Opportunity dashboards, reports and governance information, providing senior leadership with clear visibility of the project’s overall risk position.
- Review project risk allowances and associated governance metrics in accordance with established project-governance requirements.
- Review contractual frameworks to identify obligations, liabilities and exposures that require active risk management or approval.
- Support the validation and risk assessment of Civil Works and Erection partners.
- Implement and optimise risk-management tools and methodologies to strengthen project risk capability and decision-making.
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Skills for Success
You will be a proactive and analytically rigorous project-risk professional with substantial experience managing risk and opportunity across large, complex projects.
You will bring:
- Significant project Risk and Opportunity management experience within EPC, energy, infrastructure or another complex engineering or construction environment.
- Experience establishing or operating Risk and Opportunity processes within a consortium, joint venture, alliance or multi-party project structure.
- Practical experience delivering Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis.
- Knowledge of statistical and probabilistic risk-modelling techniques and the ability to use quantitative findings to support contingency and project decision-making.
- Proficiency in Active Risk Manager — ARM — and Safran Risk.
- Experience owning complex project risk registers and driving mitigation actions with senior risk owners.
- Experience with formal project change-control processes and assessing the cost, schedule, contractual and risk implications of project changes.
- Strong understanding of contractual, commercial, cost and schedule risk within major projects.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to chair governance forums, engage clients and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
- A proactive and accountable approach, with the ability to anticipate emerging risks and drive actions to completion without relying on formal authority.
- Exceptional analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills, supported by close attention to detail.
A degree or equivalent professional experience in project risk, project controls, engineering, construction, business or a related discipline would be beneficial. We are primarily interested in the depth of your directly relevant experience and professional achievements.
PMP certification or an equivalent project-management qualification would be advantageous.
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Where and How You'll Work
This is a permanent position based in our Stafford office, UK. We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our office and from home. We're big on collaboration and connection, so you'll be based in our Stafford office for a minimum of 3 days per week.
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Our Culture
Every action shapes our future. That's why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.
Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify and decarbonise the world. We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy.
Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world's electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, then join us and be the difference. Together, we are the Energy of Change.
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We're Determined to Be the Best Place to Grow
We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections, and continuous development. We're committed to providing you the tools to navigate and shape a strong career journey that aligns with a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you through navigating your journey.
We also prioritise fair pay, performance-based rewards, and wellbeing programmes for you and your family — including private health insurance. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can keep evolving while sustainability stays at the core of everything we do.
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Inclusion & Diversity
We are passionate about creating an inclusive work environment. By valuing the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce we help inspire others to grow, succeed, and raise the bar for everyone.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to supporting disadvantaged groups whilst providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova employees and applicants alike.
Join us at GE Vernova where results can be achieved by embracing a community of belonging.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No