About this role
Why RLB? At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress. We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless. Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways. We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector. You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights. What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing. Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally. Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to support the successful delivery of a large-scale data centre project in the Groningen region of the Netherlands. As part of the Project Controls team, the successful candidate will establish, implement, and lead the project's risk and change management function, ensuring alignment with the Client's governance requirements and delivery objectives. The role will be responsible for managing the project's Early Warning process, maintaining robust risk and change control frameworks, facilitating the proactive identification and mitigation of risks and opportunities, and ensuring that changes are effectively assessed, governed, and communicated throughout the project lifecycle. Working closely with the client, project leadership team, contractors, commercial team, Project Controls team, and Portfolio Service Delivery Lead, the Risk & Change Manager will promote industry best practice, support informed decision-making, and contribute to the successful delivery of this critical programme of works, while maintaining consistency of approach across the wider portfolio. Develop, implement, and maintain the project's early warning, risk and change management process in accordance with client and project governance requirements. Risk & Opportunity Management Facilitate risk identification workshops, risk reviews, and opportunity assessments with key project stakeholders. Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the project risk register, ensuring risks and opportunities are appropriately identified, assessed, monitored, and reported. Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments. Ensure response actions are identified, implemented, and tracked through to completion. Support the development of a proactive risk-aware culture across the project team. Change Management Support the management of contractor change submissions and associated governance processes. Work closely with planning, cost management, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure all changes are appropriately reviewed, assessed, approved, documented, and communicated. Coordinate and facilitate Change Control Board meetings and maintain the project change register. Monitor cumulative change impacts and identify change trends, drivers, and potential project implications. Project Controls Collaborate with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure the effective integration of risk and change management into project delivery. Ensure accurate and timely reporting of risk and change performance metrics. Ensure compliance with client, corporate, contractual, and industry governance standards. Support project reviews, assurance activities, stage-gate assessments, and lessons-learned initiatives.