Risk Lead

Project and role overview

Work location and arrangement

• The role is based in Riyadh and is designated full-time office/project work.

Major responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate project risk, opportunity, and issue reviews with PMC, ERC, Project Controls, Planning, Commercial, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain complete and accurate risk and issue registers in Active Risk Manager, with clear cause-event-effect statements, ownership, scoring, responses, dates, escalation status, and evidence.
• Challenge risk and action owners on mitigation and recovery actions; monitor ageing items, identify barriers, and escalate material delays or ineffective responses.
• Confirm proposed action closures have evidence and residual exposure has been reassessed.
• Identify cross-project and programme-level risks and support consolidation and escalation.
• Develop, validate, run, and maintain QSRA models in Safran Risk, including schedule checks, uncertainty ranges, risk mapping, sensitivity analysis, and confidence outputs.
• Work with Planning and Project Controls to ensure schedules are suitable for probabilistic analysis.
• Interpret QSRA results and prepare management conclusions and recommendations.
• Support risk governance, escalation criteria, assurance checks, workshops, and continuous improvement.
• Provide quality-assured risk, issue, action, escalation, and QSRA reporting inputs; coach the Risk Analyst and stakeholders on data quality, reporting, and ARM use.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Typically 10–15 years of relevant experience in engineering, construction, infrastructure, programme management, project controls, or project risk management.
• Experience leading qualitative risk reviews, issue reviews, and cross-functional workshops on major projects or programmes.
• Hands-on experience building and running project-level QSRA models in Safran Risk; programme-level modeling experience is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of ISO 31000 and recognized project risk management practices; professional risk or project management certification is preferred.

Required knowledge and skills

• Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, schedule risk modeling, risk aggregation, and management reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Safran Risk and practical experience with ARM or a comparable enterprise risk management system.
• Good understanding of Primavera P6 schedule structure, logic, calendars, constraints, critical path, status data, and schedule-quality considerations for QSRA.
• Able to challenge senior stakeholders constructively, facilitate decisions, and convert complex analysis into concise recommendations.
• High attention to data quality, governance, audit trail, and closure evidence.
• Clear written and verbal communication and ability to work across multicultural, multidisciplinary teams.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deliver accurate outputs in a fast-paced project environment.

Key deliverables and interfaces

Performance expectations