Project Risk Manager

Jobgether; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity participation

Retirement contributions

Healthcare

Generous vacation

International working environment

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Project Risk Manager based in Ireland. This senior role strengthens risk management across a complex EMEA portfolio, embedding risk throughout the project lifecycle and guiding milestones, contingency, and decision‑making.

You will partner with engineering, procurement, construction, and operations to elevate risk governance and delivery confidence. You will oversee qualitative and quantitative analyses, including Monte Carlo simulations, and

Qualifications

• Significant experience in risk management, project controls, or delivery within complex EPC/infrastructure programmes.
• Strong ability to lead project and portfolio risk management with identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and assurance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior stakeholders and governance bodies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the regional project risk management programme with governance, standards, and escalation across the portfolio.
• Integrate risk management across the full project lifecycle and key functions (engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, commercial).
• Provide independent risk oversight and challenge to leaders, ensuring risks and opportunities receive attention.
• Develop risk-based recommendations for contingency and management reserves with governance of usage and release.
• Produce executive dashboards and analytics on exposure, trends, and mitigation effectiveness.
• Monitor mitigation actions and escalate issues requiring regional or executive attention.

Skills

Risk management leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

Quantitative analysis

Governance & assurance

Education

Engineering/PM/Finance degree or equivalent

Tools

Monte Carlo

ISO 31000

PMBOK

@Risk

Riskonnect

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Project Risk Manager based in Ireland.

This is a senior risk leadership role responsible for strengthening risk management across a complex EMEA project portfolio.
You will help project teams anticipate uncertainty, protect cost and schedule commitments, and make better-informed delivery decisions.
Working closely with engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, commercial, commissioning, and operations teams, you will embed risk management throughout the project lifecycle.
The role combines hands‑on quantitative analysis with strategic advisory responsibilities and senior stakeholder engagement.
You will oversee project and portfolio risks, identify systemic exposures, and provide clear recommendations on mitigation, contingency, and investment decisions.
You will also help build a proactive risk culture through strong governance, assurance, reporting, and continuous improvement.
This is an opportunity to influence major infrastructure programmes in a fast‑paced, international environment where effective risk management directly supports successful project delivery.

Accountabilities

• Lead the regional project risk management programme, establishing consistent governance, standards, methodologies, processes, and escalation requirements across the portfolio.
• Integrate risk management across the full project lifecycle and key functions, including engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, commercial, commissioning, and operations readiness.
• Provide independent risk oversight and constructive challenge to project and functional leaders, ensuring material risks and opportunities receive appropriate attention.
• Establish a proactive risk culture focused on early identification, clear ownership, accountability, timely escalation, and risk‑informed decision‑making.
• Own and oversee project risk registers, ensuring significant risks have defined owners, mitigation strategies, action plans, residual assessments, and escalation paths.
• Assess key delivery risks covering design, permitting, grid connections, procurement, long‑lead equipment, construction, contracts, commercial performance, commissioning, energisation, and capacity delivery.
• Consolidate project‑level risks at regional level to identify emerging, systemic, correlated, and concentration risks.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including Monte Carlo simulation, schedule risk analysis, scenario analysis, and probabilistic techniques.
• Assess cost exposure, schedule uncertainty, critical‑path risks, key milestones, and confidence in achieving committed delivery and ready‑for‑service dates.
• Develop risk‑based recommendations for project contingency and management reserves, and support effective governance of contingency utilisation and release.
• Produce clear executive reporting, dashboards, and analytics covering risk exposure, trends, mitigation effectiveness, concentrations, contingency, and delivery confidence.
• Monitor mitigation actions, overdue items, changes in exposure, realised risks, and issues requiring project, regional, or executive escalation.
• Conduct risk reviews and health checks to assess the quality and effectiveness of risk identification, analysis, mitigation, reporting, and governance.
• Test key assumptions, forecasts, contingency requirements, mitigation strategies, and confidence levels to ensure material exposures are understood and appropriately communicated.
• Identify recurring risks, systemic weaknesses, successful mitigation approaches, and lessons learned across projects, using these insights to improve future delivery.
• Act as a trusted regional subject matter expert, advising project, regional, and executive leadership on risk‑related decisions and priorities.

Requirements:

• Degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Significant experience in risk management, project controls, or project delivery within complex EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, mission‑critical, or major capital programmes.
• Demonstrated experience leading project and portfolio risk management, including identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and assurance.
• Strong understanding of cost, schedule, contingency, and project controls principles and how they integrate with project risk management.
• Advanced experience with quantitative risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, cost and schedule risk analysis, scenario analysis, and probabilistic techniques.
• Strong knowledge of EPC contracting, procurement, supply chain, change management, claims, and commercial risk.
• Proven ability to influence and constructively challenge senior project and functional leaders in complex, fast‑paced environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.
• Ability to identify systemic and correlated risks across multiple projects and translate them into meaningful regional‑level insights.
• Experience with project or enterprise risk management platforms and their integration with scheduling, cost management, and reporting systems is advantageous.
• Experience delivering hyperscale, AI, mission‑critical, or large‑scale data centre programmes is desirable, particularly exposure to power, cooling, grid connections, long‑lead equipment, commissioning, and capacity delivery.
• Relevant professional certification such as PMI‑RMP, PMP, APM, AACE International, IRM, or an equivalent risk or project management credential is desirable.
• Working knowledge of recognised risk management frameworks such as ISO 31000 and PMBOK, as well as relevant quality, health and safety, and environmental standards, is beneficial.
• Familiarity with tools such as @Risk, Riskonnect, Safran, or comparable industry‑standard risk management software is an advantage.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on the value and responsibilities of the role rather than previous compensation.
• Equity participation, providing an opportunity to share in the organisation’s long‑term success.
• Retirement or pension contributions.
• Comprehensive healthcare, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance.
• Supportive international working environment focused on professional growth, trust, and meaningful impact.
• Benefits tailored to the local market and applicable regulations.