Risk & Opportunity Management

We are seeking a Risk & Opportunity Management professional to establish, own, and maintain the Risk and Opportunity function.

The successful candidate will apply risk methodology and risk scoring to classify, score, and actively manage every risk, ensuring all have dedicated resources from across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

Risk & Opportunity Management

1. Establish, own, and maintain the Risk and Opportunity function.
2. Apply Risk methodology and risk scoring to classify, score, and actively manage every risk, ensuring all have dedicated resource from across the organisation.
3. Facilitate risk identification workshops across programme, engineering, safety, commercial, supply chain, and training functions, capturing new risks and opportunities as projects progress.
4. Track mitigation actions to closure, escalating risks that exceed agreed tolerance thresholds to the Programme Manager and Programme Director/SRO.

Governance, Reporting & Assurance

1. Own risk and opportunity reporting into the Performance Review Meeting (PRM), Programme Board, and Authority reporting cycle.
2. Maintain the Decision Log and supporting risk documentation, ensuring a clear audit trail of risk decisions and approvals.
3. Support programme controls (the PCMP and CWBS) by ensuring cost, schedule, and quality risk are reflected in the integrated programme schedules and budgets.
4. Provide risk input into functional areas across the business.

Regulatory, Safety & Technical Risk Coordination

1. Coordinate with the Chief Engineer, Safety Manager, and Airworthiness Lead to track engineering, safety, and certification risk, including SAIL/OSO compliance, MRP adherence, and Design Organisation conformity across the UK/Portugal boundary.
2. Track integration and security risk associated with spiral development requirements, escalating critical-path issues to the Chief Engineer when required.
3. Track supply chain and production risk, including manufacturing readiness at WWA and Swindon, supplier lead times, and single points of failure, working with the Supply Chain Lead and the Manufacturing, Assembly & Integration Lead.
4. Track commercial and IP risk, including contract change impact and Design Authority/IP transfer decisions, working with the Commercial Lead.

Internal Collaboration

1. Work closely with the Programme Manager and Programme Controls Manager to keep the Risk and Opportunity Register aligned with the wider programme schedule, budget, and change control processes.
2. Support the Programme Director/SRO in preparing risk positions ahead of Authority engagement and negotiation.
3. Coach risk owners across the Delivery team in applying risk, ensuring a consistent approach across the business.
4. As is consistent with a scaling company, support work outside of core responsibilities where business priorities require.

What we have to offer you: At TEKEVER, we offer a comprehensive package designed to reward, support, and develop our people. This includes a highly competitive salary with a discretionary annual bonus and a company pension contribution match of up to 10%. To support your wellbeing, we provide 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Private Medical Insurance (with optional family cover), Private Dental care, and an Employee Assistance Programme. We are deeply committed to investing in future talent; our scale allows us to provide clear career development opportunities and dedicated initiatives to boost your skill sets, ensuring you remain future-ready for the evolving workplace. Furthermore, our team enjoys a flexible hybrid working model, typically three days a week at our core UK sites like Bristol, and access to a bespoke rewards platform featuring a variety of high street discounts and salary sacrifice schemes, including Electric Car, Cycle to Work, and Technology options.