How to apply for Risk Consultant / Senior Risk Consultant

About AECOM

AECOM delivers infrastructure and environmental solutions with a focus on sustainable legacies. It operates globally and supports major capital projects across many sectors. The Integrated Programme Controls team sits at the centre of this work, giving risk professionals exposure to large, complex programmes.

About the role

This senior risk consultant role involves implementing and advising on risk management for AECOM's major infrastructure projects across the UK. You will work with project teams, clients, and sub-contractors to understand risk exposure, set up governance, and support decision making. The role also includes input to bids, risk assurance checks, reporting to senior leaders, and coaching staff in risk management practice.

A typical day

A typical day might involve meeting with project teams to review risk registers, running a risk workshop, and updating risk reports for senior leaders. You could also spend time on risk assurance checks, supporting a bid, or coaching a colleague on risk management practice. The mix depends on which projects and programmes you are supporting that week.

Who AECOM is looking for

• Experience implementing risk management on large infrastructure or capital projects, ideally across multiple sectors.
• Confident engaging senior stakeholders, clients, and sub-contractors, and able to communicate risk data clearly to decision makers.
• Skilled at producing risk reports, running risk assurance checks, and applying governance to project and programme risk.
• Comfortable contributing risk input to bids and proposals, and willing to coach and mentor others in risk management best practice.

Tips for this application

• Tailor your CV to show direct experience with risk management on major infrastructure projects, not just general risk or compliance work.
• List specific tools and methods you have used for risk registers, quantitative risk analysis, and risk reporting, since the role is technical and delivery-focused.
• Highlight any experience working with programme controls or integrated project controls teams, as this role sits within AECOM's Integrated Programme Controls team.
• Include examples of engaging senior stakeholders or clients on risk matters, because the job description stresses this as a core requirement.
• Mention any bid or proposal support you have provided, as the role includes direct risk input to secure new business.

What to cover in your cover letter

Show that you understand what risk management looks like on major infrastructure programmes, not just general risk. Explain how you have implemented risk processes with project teams and clients. Describe how you have reported risk data to senior leaders to support decisions. Note any experience supporting bids or coaching staff in risk practice.

Research before applying

• AECOM's Integrated Programme Controls team and how it fits into their project delivery model.
• AECOM's major infrastructure projects in the UK and the sectors they cover, such as transport, energy, or water.
• AECOM's published approach to sustainability and how risk management supports it.
• Common risk management standards and tools used in UK infrastructure programmes, such as those from the UK government or industry bodies.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How you have implemented risk management on a major infrastructure project, including the governance and reporting you set up.
• How you engage senior stakeholders and clients when risk exposure is high or when there is disagreement about risk.
• Your approach to risk assurance checks and how you ensure project and programme risk management is high quality.
• How you have contributed risk input to bids or proposals and what that involved.
• How you coach or mentor staff in risk management best practice, and how you measure whether it worked.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying with a CV that lists risk experience without naming the infrastructure projects, sectors, or programme sizes involved.
• Focusing only on risk analysis techniques and ignoring stakeholder engagement, governance, and reporting, which are central to this role.
• Ignoring the bid and proposal element of the role, which shows a lack of attention to the full job description.