Senior Project Risk Leader

Turner & Townsend; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Risk Manager in Abu Dhabi to establish and sustain comprehensive risk management across complex programmes. You will work with leadership, planners and commercial teams to protect objectives and improve delivery certainty.

Responsibilities include leading risk workshops, maintaining risk registers, and providing expert risk guidance to senior management while integrating risk with project controls and governance. A proactive risk culture is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or suitably experienced in engineering, construction, or risk Management.
• Professional certifications in project or risk management are preferred (PMI-RMP, PMP, APM, IRM, MoR, PRINCE2).

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement risk management frameworks and governance.
• Maintain risk registers and reporting systems.
• Lead risk workshops across planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, and operations readiness.
• Provide risk advice to directors and senior management.
• Integrate risk management with project controls and reporting.

Skills

Risk management

Project controls

Stakeholder management

Quantitative risk analysis

Monte Carlo simulations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management/PM

PMI-RMP or PMP

APM/IRM/MoR/PRINCE2 Practitioner

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Risk Manager in Abu Dhabi to establish and sustain comprehensive risk management across complex programmes. You will work with leadership, planners and commercial teams to protect objectives and improve delivery certainty.

Responsibilities include leading risk workshops, maintaining risk registers, and providing expert risk guidance to senior management while integrating risk with project controls and governance. A proactive risk culture is essential.