Risk Manager

Turner & Townsend International Limited; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 331,000 - 514,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend International Limited is seeking a Project Risk Manager to establish and maintain comprehensive risk management across complex programmes, ensuring risks to scope, schedule, cost, safety, and environment are identified and mitigated.

The role collaborates with project leadership, delivery teams and executives to support informed decisions, protect objectives, and improve delivery certainty. A proactive, risk-aware culture is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering or project discipline.
• Professional certification in risk management (PMI-RMP, PMP, APM, IRM, MoR, PRINCE2).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project risk management frameworks, strategies, and governance.
• Lead risk workshops and assess threats and opportunities across project phases.
• Perform QSRA and QCRA and support contingency and reserves.
• Integrate risk with planning, scheduling, cost management and change control.
• Track risk actions and produce dashboards and executive summaries.
• Engage stakeholders and communicate risk exposure to leadership and governance bodies.
• Support audits, governance, assurance reviews, and continuous improvement of risk processes.

Skills

Risk management leadership

Stakeholder management

Quantitative risk analysis

Project controls integration

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management or related discipline

Job description

The Project Risk Manager is responsible for establishing implementing and maintaining effective risk management processes across complex programmes and projects The role ensures that strategic commercial technical operational schedule cost safety environmental and stakeholder risks are identified assessed managed monitored and reported throughout the project lifecycle The Project Risk Manager will work closely with project leadership delivery teams planners commercial managers technical specialists and executive stakeholders to support informed decision-making protect project objectives and improve the certainty of successful project delivery

Key Responsibilities

Risk Management Leadership

Develop and implement project and programme risk management frameworks strategies plans procedures and governance arrangements Establish and maintain project risk registers and associated risk reporting systems Ensure risk management activities align with organisational standards project controls requirements and industry best practices Promote a proactive risk-aware culture across project teams and supply chain partners Provide expert advice to project directors and senior management regarding key project threats and opportunities

Risk Identification and Assessment

Facilitate structured risk workshops threat assessments opportunity reviews scenario planning sessions and lessons learned exercises Lead risk identification activities across all project phases including planning design procurement construction testing commissioning and operations readiness Evaluate strategic schedule cost technical commercial stakeholder safety environmental regulatory interface and delivery risks Ensure risks are consistently assessed using qualitative and quantitative methodologies Support the identification and management of emerging risks and changing project conditions

Quantitative Risk Analysis

Undertake and manage quantitative schedule risk analysis QSRA and quantitative cost risk analysis QCRA Support contingency assessment and management reserve recommendations Conduct Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity analyses to evaluate project uncertainty Provide risk-adjusted forecasts and support confidence level assessments for programme delivery Interpret statistical outputs and communicate findings to both technical and executive audiences

Project Controls Integration

Integrate risk management activities with project controls planning scheduling cost management change control and reporting processes Ensure risk exposure is reflected within project forecasts and performance reporting Support development and maintenance of risk-adjusted schedules and budgets Collaborate closely with planning and commercial teams to assess impacts of identified risks

Risk Monitoring and Reporting

Track risk mitigation actions and monitor effectiveness of risk response strategies Produce regular risk dashboards reports heat maps trend analyses and executive summaries Escalate critical issues requiring leadership intervention Monitor changing risk exposure throughout the project lifecycle Support project reviews gateway reviews assurance activities and audits

Stakeholder Management

Facilitate communication of risks and opportunities with project teams contractors consultants and senior stakeholders Build strong working relationships across multidisciplinary delivery teams Present risk information at governance boards leadership reviews and steering committees Support stakeholders in understanding risk exposure and decision-making requirements

Governance and Assurance

Ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements and established risk management frameworks Support internal and external audits assurance reviews and independent risk assessments Maintain accurate project documentation and audit trails Contribute to continuous improvement of risk processes tools and methodologies

Opportunity Management

Identify and assess opportunities that improve project outcomes efficiency cost performance and programme delivery Support development of opportunity action plans and benefit realisation strategies Promote balanced consideration of both threats and opportunities within project decision making

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Risk Management, Business Management, in a related discipline (or suitably experienced).
• Professional certification in project or risk management such as: PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) Project Management Professional (PMP) Association for Project Management (APM) IRM International Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management MoR (Management of Risk) PRINCE2 Practitioner

Required Experience

Typically 5+ years' experience in project controls, programme management, risk management, or major project delivery environments. Demonstrated experience on large-scale infrastructure, transportation, rail, energy, aviation, water, utilities, construction, or capital investment programmes. Experience facilitating multi-disciplinary risk workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions. Proven experience preparing and managing project risk registers and mitigation plans. Experience conducting quantitative risk analysis and developing risk-adjusted forecasts. Strong understanding of programme governance and project controls disciplines. Experience supporting executive-level reporting and decision making.