Chief Engineer - Enterprise Risk

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative; Dubai; On-site; AED 201,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai seeks an experienced ERM professional to drive the enterprise risk management framework across agencies, sectors, and departments. You will strengthen governance, deliver periodic risk reporting and ERM audit plans, and elevate risk awareness across the organization.

The role requires a Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Engineering and 3+ years (Master’s) or 5+ years (Bachelor’s) of relevant experience, with a focus on risk and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Engineering.
• 3+ years in case of Master’s degree(5+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)

Responsibilities

• Review the ERM framework with agencies, sectors, and departments and implement improvements.
• Prepare and submit periodic major-risk reports to the Director General and the Board.
• Develop and implement ERM audit plans and follow through with actions.
• Carry out risk reviews across activities and roles and track mitigation.
• Maintain risk records and generate required risk reports.
• Raise risk-management awareness among employees and concerned parties.

Skills

Risk management

Governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Purpose

Drive the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework across agencies, sectors, and departments to strengthen governance and risk mitigation. Deliver periodic major risk reporting and ERM audit plans with timely follow-through. Elevate organization-wide risk awareness and records integrity. Sustain advanced ERM expertise to enhance capability and delivery.

Job Description

Job Purpose

Drive the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework across agencies, sectors, and departments to strengthen governance and risk mitigation. Deliver periodic major risk reporting and ERM audit plans with timely follow-through. Elevate organization-wide risk awareness and records integrity. Sustain advanced ERM expertise to enhance capability and delivery.

Roles And Responsibilities

Strategy

Reviews the Enterprise Risk Management framework, including policies, procedures, and action plans, and facilitate implementation with agencies, sectors, and departments.

Provides input for preparing and submitting the periodic major-risk report to the Director General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA.

Prepare and implement ERM audit plans aligned with relevant policies, including inspection and audit plans, and submit periodic reports.

Pursue and maintain advanced professional expertise in enterprise risk to strengthen organizational capability.

Operations

Review and periodically assess risks for all activities and roles across agencies, sectors, and departments; provide feedback on mitigation plans and follow up on implementation.

Ensure maintenance of risk records for all agencies, sectors, and departments to generate required risk reports.

Raise risk-management awareness among employees and concerned parties on an ongoing basis.

Periodically review and support audits of agencies, sectors, and departments regarding operational risks.

Support the identification of risks related to strategies (including specialized strategies), operations, and projects (including critical projects).

Execute directives and ad-hoc tasks from ERM leadership to ensure timely delivery of the enterprise risk agenda.

Product / Process Improvement

Strengthen ERM framework implementation through coordinated processes and continuous enhancement with agencies, sectors, and departments.

Enhance risk-awareness programs and measurement to improve adoption and reporting quality.

Improve risk-record practices and reporting mechanisms to increase data quality and timeliness.

Evolve operational-risk reduction standards using insights from periodic reviews and audit

Qualifications

Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Engineering

3+ years in case of Master’s degree(5+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)

Job Category

Health and Safety

Advertiser

Roads and Transport Authority

Department

Safety & Risk Regulation and Planning

Required Nationality

All Nationalities (Priority for UAE National)

Monthly Salary

Unspecified

Schedule-Time

Full time

Job Posting

25/08/2026

Unposting Date

25/09/2026