Senior Risk Engineer for Major Projects

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a Lead Engineer, Risk Management to steer enterprise-wide risk practices across capital and major projects within the PMO. You will identify, assess, mitigate, and report risks to support informed decision-making and improved project certainty.

You will lead workshops, maintain risk registers, and develop dashboards for governance reviews, collaborating with project managers, planners, and cost controllers to embed risk awareness across daily execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk management frameworks, methodologies, and tools for capital and major projects.
• Facilitate risk identification and assessment workshops with project teams, consultants, and contractors.
• Develop and maintain risk registers with qualitative and quantitative data.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (Monte Carlo simulations) for schedule and cost impacts.
• Support integration of risk data into project control and performance reporting.
• Track risk actions and mitigation plans for timely implementation.
• Prepare risk reports and dashboards for governance, leadership reviews, and audits.
• Collaborate with project teams to embed risk practices into execution.
• Ensure alignment with corporate risk management policies and frameworks.
• Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement in risk practices.
• Provide training and guidance to project teams and junior risk analysts.

Skills

ERM frameworks

Engineering practices

Quantitative risk analysis

Safety & env fundamentals

Project control tools

Report writing

Facilitation & training

Cross-functional collaboration

@Risk (risk software)

Primavera / MS Project

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/PM

PMI-RMP / MoR certification (preferred)

Tools

@Risk

Primavera Risk Analysis

Oracle Crystal Ball

Primavera

MS Project

Job description

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a Lead Engineer, Risk Management to steer enterprise-wide risk practices across capital and major projects within the PMO. You will identify, assess, mitigate, and report risks to support informed decision-making and improved project certainty.

You will lead workshops, maintain risk registers, and develop dashboards for governance reviews, collaborating with project managers, planners, and cost controllers to embed risk awareness across daily execution.