Project Risk Manager

Hatch, in partnership with Ma’aden, is delivering major mining and infrastructure projects across Saudi Arabia. We are seeking a Project Risk Manager to lead risk management activities from project planning through execution, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and alignment with project scope, budget, schedule, and safety requirements.

Responsibilities:

Develops, implements and maintains the project risk management framework

Plans and facilitates assessments/risk analysis/risk reviews of project risks

Maintains constant collaboration and communication with the project leadership team and other stakeholders

Incorporates identified risks into the Project Risk Register, ensures risk data integrity and quality  

Develops project risk reports and dashboards

Coordinate with risk owners and the Project Controls Team to ensure risk control measures are included in the project budget and schedule and are implemented in a timely manner

Provide Risk Management training to team members, contractors and other project stakeholders

Provide guidance and support to the project leadership team to develop and maintain a risk-aware culture

Drives risk management continuous improvement and implements lessons learned

Plans and facilitates integrated Schedule and Cost Quantitative Risk Analysis (contingency analysis)

Plans and facilitates hazard studies, i.e., HAZOP, Construction and Commissioning safety studies

Qualifications and requirements:

Post-secondary engineering and business degree from a recognized university combined with a professional risk or project management designation

Minimum 10 year experience in mega or large projects risk management role, ideally in the mining sector

Experience in workshop facilitation involving large groups of people

Expert knowledge in the application of International Risk Management Standards and Industry Best Practices, i.e. ISO 31000, AACE International, CII, PMI.

Experience of the risk management process and know how to adapt it to the project needs;

Knowledge of risk management tools such as Safran, @Risk, Active Risk Manager, Omega 360, etc

Good understanding of and experience with project management processes, project execution strategies, cost estimating and project scheduling principles, tools and techniques, decision analysis and scenario planning

Ability to advise project stakeholders on the management of their particular risks.

Ability to manage competing priorities effectively, to be resourceful and to use time as a resource - routine requirement to work to deadlines imposed by the project might require completion of unplanned risk management activities in a short time frame.

Desired Candidate Profile