Risk Manager - Airport Infrastructure

Parsons

Riyadh

On-site

SAR 35,000 - 48,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Risk Manager for an Airport Infrastructure project in Riyadh to lead the risk framework across design, procurement, construction, and handover. You will run risk workshops, maintain registers, and provide management with quantitative and qualitative insights to drive risk-based decisions.

The ideal candidate has at least 15 years in project risk management on large-scale infrastructure, with strong English communication and experience coordinating multiple partners across

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field; Master’s preferred.
Minimum 15 years of project risk management experience.
Experience with major infrastructure or airport programs.
Excellent English communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the project risk management framework.
Lead risk workshops and executive risk reviews across disciplines.
Maintain risk registers, heat maps, dashboards, and reports.
Assess threats and opportunities affecting cost, schedule, scope, quality, safety, and operations.
Coordinate with planning, controls, commercial, and cost teams.
Ensure risk processes are integrated across design, procurement, construction, and handover.
Monitor risk actions and ensure evidence-based closure of mitigations.
Prepare risk presentations for clients and governance committees.

Skills

Project risk management

Airports/airport infrastructure

Qualitative risk analysis

Quantitative risk analysis

Schedule risk analysis

Cost risk analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Risk workshops

Risk dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in risk management

Tools

Primavera Risk Analysis

Safran Risk

Active Risk Manager

Job description

Overview

Risk Manager - Airport Infrastructure in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Civil Engineering opportunity supporting a major airport and airfield development program. The role will establish and maintain a structured project risk framework covering design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness. The successful candidate will lead risk workshops, maintain risk registers, support quantitative and qualitative analysis, and provide management with reliable information for risk-based decisions.

Salary: 35,000–48,000 Saudi Riyals (estimated based on similar jobs).

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the project risk management framework.
Align risk processes with project requirements, contractual obligations, and international best practices.
Establish risk procedures, methodologies, tools, templates, governance arrangements, and reporting mechanisms.
Develop and maintain project risk registers, risk categories, risk breakdown structures, and ownership frameworks.
Ensure risk management processes are applied across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
Promote a proactive risk culture across client, consultant, contractor, and project delivery teams.
Facilitate risk identification and assessment workshops with stakeholders and discipline leads.
Identify threats and opportunities affecting cost, schedule, scope, quality, safety, design, procurement, construction, and operations.
Evaluate risk probability, impact, exposure, urgency, proximity, and trends.
Assign clear risk ownership and action responsibilities.
Develop mitigation, contingency, avoidance, transfer, acceptance, and response strategies.
Monitor mitigation actions and escalate overdue or ineffective controls.
Verify that agreed risk actions are implemented and supported by evidence.
Manage risks affecting runways, taxiways, aprons, pavements, utilities, airfield systems, and associated infrastructure.
Assess aviation operational risks involving airside access, safety restrictions, phased works, and live‑airport interfaces.
Identify risks arising from civil works, utility integration, temporary works, logistics, and construction sequencing.
Monitor threats to operational continuity during construction and transition activities.
Provide risk input into project execution plans, delivery strategies, procurement plans, and construction methodologies.
Support qualitative and quantitative schedule and cost risk assessments.
Coordinate with planning, project controls, commercial, and cost teams.
Identify schedule drivers, cost exposure, critical dependencies, and potential delays.
Review baseline programmes, forecasts, changes, variations, and recovery plans from a risk perspective.
Support development of contingency allowances and management reserves.
Recommend recovery strategies where emerging risks threaten project milestones.
Monitor new and changing risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc risk reports.
Develop heat maps, trend analysis, risk dashboards, and executive summaries.
Monitor key risk indicators and identify deteriorating risk conditions.
Highlight critical risks requiring management action or governance escalation.
Prepare risk presentations for clients, leadership teams, and governance committees.
Coordinate risk matters with contractors, consultants, authorities, and delivery partners.
Lead risk review meetings, workshops, and interface coordination sessions.
Manage risks arising from interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, MEP, utilities, ICT, aviation systems, and operations.
Ensure risk ownership is clearly communicated across organizational and contractual boundaries.
Assess risks associated with design changes, scope amendments, project decisions, and technical deviations.
Support change‑control processes by evaluating potential cost, schedule, quality, and delivery impacts.
Maintain traceability between risk events, proposed changes, approved variations, and mitigation actions.
Identify opportunities for value improvement, optimization, and more efficient delivery.
Provide risk support during construction, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover.
Review contractor risk assessments, method statements, construction plans, and recovery strategies.
Participate in site inspections, audits, constructability reviews, and risk assessments.
Verify that risk controls are applied during field execution.
Monitor contractor compliance with project risk management requirements.
Integrate health, safety, environmental, operational, and regulatory risks into the overall framework.
Coordinate with HSE teams on safety-critical risks and mitigation requirements.
Support safety‑in‑design reviews and operational risk evaluations.
Ensure airport safety, airside operations, and aviation compliance risks are effectively managed.
Support audits and assurance reviews of project risk processes.
Maintain complete records of risk assessments, decisions, actions, and outcomes.
Capture lessons learned and promote continuous improvement across the program.

Ideal Profile

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related discipline.
Master's degree in risk management, project management, or a related field is advantageous.
Minimum 15 years of project risk management experience.
Strong background supporting major infrastructure, airport, transportation, EPC, or large‑scale construction projects.
Proven experience managing risks across complex multidisciplinary programs.
Experience supporting projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
Demonstrated ability to implement structured risk management frameworks on major capital projects.
Experience working with international clients, contractors, consultants, and delivery partners.
Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques.
Ability to develop and maintain risk registers, heat maps, dashboards, and management reports.
Experience leading risk workshops and executive risk reviews.
Strong understanding of project controls, planning, cost management, contracts, and change control.
Knowledge of construction methods, infrastructure delivery risks, and multidisciplinary interfaces.
Experience reviewing programme and cost risks using structured analytical techniques.
Familiarity with Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Active Risk Manager, or equivalent systems.
Experience with digital project management platforms and risk analytics tools.
Strong knowledge of integrated project controls and enterprise risk management.
Previous airport development or airfield infrastructure experience is highly desirable.
Knowledge of ICAO requirements and airport operational constraints is advantageous.
Experience working under FIDIC, EPC, design‑build, or similar international contract frameworks.
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, reporting, and decision‑support abilities.
Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
Ability to influence project teams and senior leaders through evidence‑based risk advice.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
Professional certification such as PMI‑RMP, Certified Risk Manager, APM Risk Certificate, or equivalent is preferred.
Excellent written and spoken English.