Risk Manager - Major Infrastructure Projects

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 279,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is hiring a Risk Manager to lead a major infrastructure risk program across roads, civil works, and structures. You will establish a comprehensive risk framework spanning design through operations readiness and provide assurance to senior stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in risk management, strong quantitative skills, and proven leadership across multidisciplinary project teams in large-scale road and civil projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of experience in risk management, project controls, or engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive risk-management framework aligned with project governance and international practices.
• Define risk categories for technical, construction, regulatory, environmental, HSE, and schedule exposures.
• Integrate risk management across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Lead risk-identification workshops with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate with planning and cost-control teams to integrate risk information into schedules and budgets.

Skills

Infrastructure risk management

Risk-management frameworks

Master risk-register governance

Quantitative risk analysis

Monte Carlo simulation

Stakeholder management

Project-controls integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering or Risk Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Risk Manager - Major Infrastructure Projects Job Snapshot Role: Risk Manager - Major Infrastructure Projects Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Civil Engineering Function: Risk Management Experience: Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Parsons is hiring a Risk Manager - Major Infrastructure Projects in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a senior Civil Engineering opportunity covering roads, civil works, and structural assets. The manager will establish and lead a comprehensive risk framework across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and operational-readiness stages. This position will provide assurance to senior management, investors, sponsors, lenders, and other stakeholders that technical, safety, cost, schedule, quality, environmental, commercial, and performance risks are understood and effectively controlled. The role requires extensive infrastructure experience, quantitative risk-analysis capability, and strong leadership across multidisciplinary project teams.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Civil Engineering Function: Risk Management Salary: 25000-40000 SAR per month Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context Major roads and structural programs involve interconnected risks across alignments, interfaces, ground conditions, utilities, permits, contractors, stakeholders, and delivery packages. The Risk Manager will create a consistent framework for identifying these exposures, quantifying their potential effects, assigning ownership, and monitoring mitigation. Reliable risk information will support funding decisions, contingency planning, contractual strategy, construction sequencing, and milestone forecasting. By integrating risk with project controls and governance, the manager will help protect safety, budget, schedule, quality, and long-term asset performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive risk-management framework aligned with project governance, corporate requirements, and international practices.
• Establish policies, procedures, tools, and reporting standards for roads, civil works, and structural packages.
• Define risk categories covering technical, construction, geotechnical, interface, regulatory, environmental, HSE, commercial, contractual, stakeholder, and schedule exposures.
• Integrate risk management throughout concept development, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.
• Lead recurring risk-identification workshops with designers, engineers, construction managers, planners, HSE teams, procurement specialists, commercial teams, and operators.
• Assess risks involving highway alignments, interchanges, road networks, and connections with existing infrastructure.
• Evaluate exposures associated with bridges, viaducts, tunnels, retaining walls, culverts, foundations, and other major structures.
• Identify geotechnical risks arising from ground conditions, subsurface uncertainty, and ground-improvement requirements.
• Review risks associated with utility diversions, third-party assets, corridor constraints, and adjacent developments.
• Support risk reviews covering constructability, logistics, traffic management, temporary works, and construction staging.
• Conduct qualitative assessments using approved likelihood and impact criteria.
• Measure potential consequences across cost, schedule, safety, quality, reputation, performance, and the environment.
• Develop quantitative models for cost-risk analysis, contingency assessment, and schedule-risk analysis.
• Apply Monte Carlo simulation and other probabilistic methods where required.
• Coordinate with planning and cost-control teams to integrate risk information into Primavera P6 schedules, cost estimates, and budget baselines.
• Produce risk-adjusted forecasts, contingency recommendations, and probabilistic completion dates.
• Develop mitigation strategies involving design optimization, alternative technical solutions, and revised construction methods.
• Coordinate risk responses involving ground investigations, advanced geotechnical analysis, HSE measures, traffic management, and construction staging.
• Support appropriate contractual and commercial risk allocation with contractors, consultants, and suppliers.
• Monitor mitigation implementation, measure effectiveness, and update residual-risk ratings.
• Promote proportionate risk-reward decisions that remain cost-effective and aligned with project objectives.
• Own and maintain the master risk register for road, civil, and structural works.
• Ensure consistent risk descriptions, ownership, scoring, status reporting, and action tracking across project packages.
• Develop templates and guidance for package-level risk registers.
• Produce risk dashboards and reports for executive management, steering committees, lenders, sponsors, technical teams, and delivery stakeholders.
• Highlight emerging threats, cumulative exposure, changing trends, and early-warning indicators.
• Coordinate interface-risk assessments between roads, civil works, structures, adjacent developments, and existing infrastructure.
• Engage government agencies, regulators, utility owners, municipalities, landowners, and communities on permitting, regulatory, and social risks.
• Support land-acquisition, right-of-way, and permitting teams with risk analysis and mitigation planning.
• Maintain compliance with project risk plans, internal policies, governance requirements, and applicable standards.
• Support internal and external audits covering risk management and project assurance.
• Participate in design reviews, constructability assessments, and safety-in-design sessions.
• Train and coach project teams in risk tools, techniques, responsibilities, and reporting practices.
• Facilitate lessons-learned reviews and incorporate findings into future assessments.
• Improve risk processes using performance data, stakeholder feedback, and industry developments.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Construction Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• Master 's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or Risk Management is preferred.
• Minimum ten years of experience in risk management, project controls, or engineering roles.
• Proven involvement in large-scale road, highway, civil, or structural infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing risks involving bridges, tunnels, viaducts, foundations, and major retaining structures.
• Exposure to multi-package mega projects with significant budgets and complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of recognized risk-management frameworks.
• Knowledge of road and heavy-civil construction techniques.
• Familiarity with structural engineering principles and geotechnical considerations.
• Sound knowledge of cost, schedule, change, contract, and project-controls processes.
• Ability to communicate probabilistic information and complex risks to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Strong workshop facilitation, coaching, negotiation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• PMI-RMP, IRM, CRM, or an equivalent professional qualification is highly desirable.

Skills Set

• Infrastructure risk management
• Risk-management frameworks
• Master risk-register governance
• Qualitative risk assessment
• Quantitative risk analysis
• Cost-risk modeling
• Schedule-risk analysis
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Contingency analysis
• Risk-adjusted forecasting
• Primavera P6
• Project-controls integration
• Highway and road risk assessment
• Structural asset risk analysis
• Geotechnical risk assessment
• Utility-interface management
• Constructability risk reviews
• Traffic-management risk
• HSE risk analysis
• Contractual risk allocation
• Mitigation planning and tracking
• Residual-risk assessment
• Early-warning indicators
• Risk dashboards and reporting
• Audit and governance support
• Stakeholder workshop facilitation
• Training and risk coaching
• Lessons-learned management

Why Join Us

This opportunity offers strategic responsibility for risk management across complex roads, civil works, and structural assets. The successful candidate will influence technical solutions, delivery strategies, contingencies, contracts, and executive decisions on projects with extensive interfaces and stakeholder exposure. The position provides a strong pathway toward senior program-risk, project-controls, governance, and assurance leadership within Saudi Arabia 's growing Civil Engineering market.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, program-management, project-controls, and construction solutions for major infrastructure developments. Its multidisciplinary teams support clients in managing complex technical, commercial, schedule, and delivery challenges.