Risk Manager - Project Controls

Risk Manager - Project Controls

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Risk Management

Experience:

15 years risk management experience

Job Type: Full-time

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Risk Management

Salary: 45, (estimated, confirm final offer with employer)

Gender: Any

Nationality:
Any

The Risk Manager will guide the full risk management process across the project lifecycle, helping teams identify, assess, prioritize, mitigate, and monitor threats and opportunities that may affect cost, schedule, quality, delivery certainty, and stakeholder outcomes.

This position plays a key role in facilitating structured risk workshops, maintaining reliable risk registers, producing clear management reports, supporting executive presentations, and using statistical analysis to connect uncertainty with planned project activities.

The role strengthens project governance by turning risk information into practical recommendations for project teams and senior leadership.

• Facilitate risk workshops, risk reviews, and structured risk assessment sessions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the project team and stakeholders through risk identification, definition, assessment, analysis, mitigation, ownership, and monitoring.
• Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on individual risks and wider project risk exposure.
• Maintain and periodically update risk registers, risk repositories, assessment records, mitigation trackers, and risk reporting databases.
• Monitor emerging risks, analyze risk trends, and work with risk owners to evaluate exposure and define practical mitigation actions.
• Analyze the likelihood of achieving project cost and schedule targets by linking uncertainty to planned project activities.
• Support schedule risk analysis, cost risk analysis, Monte Carlo‑style assessments, and scenario‑based risk reviews where required.
• Prepare clear risk reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries for project teams, senior management, and client stakeholders.
• Develop custom risk reports for different levels of the organization, including executive management.
• Support knowledge sharing across portfolios and programmes by capturing lessons learned, recurring risks, mitigation approaches, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead or support training materials for risk management awareness, process adoption, tools usage, and risk‑related education across project teams.
• Coordinate with IT and system administrators to resolve risk software issues and maintain effective risk management tools.
• Monitor updates to risk repositories, reporting tools, and assessment platforms to protect data integrity and reporting consistency.
• Develop work schedules for risk deliverables, reporting cycles, workshop preparation, and senior management submissions.
• Assist management in preparing executive‑level presentations covering risk status, key exposures, trends, mitigation plans, and required decisions.
• Oversee meeting minutes, reports, action logs, and related documentation for enterprise risk applications and project risk reviews.
• Interpret complex risk information and present recommendations in a clear, confident, accurate, and concise manner.
• Support constructability reviews, schedule critical reviews, cost estimate scrutiny, and analysis of areas where uncertainty may affect project outcomes.
• Coordinate with planning, project controls, commercial, engineering, construction, and management teams to ensure risk information supports live project decisions.
• Promote consistent risk management discipline, accountability, and early warning practices across project teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field from a Western university.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in a project‑oriented environment performing risk management.
• Strong background in risk planning, risk assessment facilitation, risk mitigation, risk analysis, and risk reporting.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops with project stakeholders, senior management, contractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
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