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Job Title: Risk Manager
Location: Cambuslang or Edinburgh
Salary from £66,000 to £82,500 + up to 20% bonus + Car allowance + Family Medical Cover + double match pension
Help us create a better future, quicker
SP Energy Networks (SPEN) will deliver £5.4bn of investment in the GB electricity grid over the next five years. Within this, the SPT Core Portfolio will deliver a £2.4bn programme of new overhead lines and new and upgraded substations, spanning design, engineering, construction and electrical works.
The Core PMO Risk Manager is a management role accountable for establishing and leading a portfolio-wide Risk Management function across 600+ major infrastructure projects.
The role sets the strategic direction for Risk Management, drives quantitative analysis and insight-led reporting, builds organisational capability, and enables executive decision-making, assurance and portfolio performance.
What you’ll be doing
- Leads the Core Portfolio Risk Management function, setting direction, standards and capability.
- Implements and continuously improves a standard Risk Management framework across 600+ projects.
- Leads QRSA, QRCA and Monte Carlo analysis, ensuring outputs shape planning, forecasting and decision-making.
- Drives rollout and adoption of Risk Management tools, standards and playbooks across the portfolio.
- Delivers portfolio-level risk reporting, trend analysis and forward-looking insight for executive decision-making.
- Builds risk capability through team leadership, upskilling and a proactive risk culture.
- Develops risk analytics and drives continuous improvement in data, governance and reporting.
- Works across Planning, Cost and project teams to ensure risk and contingency are reflected in baselines and forecasts.
- Provides senior stakeholder leadership and assurance, aligned to portfolio priorities, regulatory expectations and best practice.
What you’ll bring
- Extensive experience in infrastructure Risk Management within major capital, EPC or complex portfolio delivery environments.
- Proven success establishing and leading Risk Management functions, frameworks and governance at scale.
- Expert knowledge of QRSA, QRCA and Monte Carlo analysis, and their application to cost, schedule and executive decision-making.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management capability, with credibility at senior and executive levels.
- Experience delivering the rollout and adoption of Risk Management tools, systems and standards across large portfolios.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear management insight.
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional qualifications and experience.
- Knowledge of NEC4 and proficiency in relevant tools, including Safran Risk, Power BI and Microsoft Office.
What’s in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Schemes
- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
- Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why SP Energy Networks
SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
July-3-2026
