Risk Manager
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About the Role
Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is t.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices.
- Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated.
- Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
- Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.
- Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process.
- Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.
- Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions.
- Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.
- Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting.
- Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure.
- Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk related input and documentation.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of construction risk management, project controls, schedule and cost risk analysis, and risk reporting within complex construction, infrastructure, or mission critical projects.
- Experience leading risk management activities for large scale projects.
- Ability to facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
- Experience performing qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.
- Ability to prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.
- Experience coordinating with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams.
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Company Overview
- Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East.
- Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in.
- We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Risk Manager to lead risk management activities for a large scale data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices.
- Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated.
- Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
- Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.
- Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process.
- Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.
- Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions.
- Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.
- Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting.
- Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure.
- Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk related input and documentation.
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