Senior Engineer, Risk Management
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Role Overview
To lead and support the development, implementation, and monitoring of enterprise-wide risk management practices across capital and major projects within the PMO.
The role ensures proactive identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting of project risks to support effective decision-making and improve project certainty and resilience.
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Job Purpose
To lead and support the development, implementation, and monitoring of enterprise-wide risk management practices across capital and major projects within the PMO.
The role ensures proactive identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting of project risks to support effective decision-making and improve project certainty and resilience.
Key Accountabilities
- Contribution on the implementation of risk management frameworks, methodologies, and tools for capital and major projects across the organization.
- Facilitate risk identification and assessment workshops with project teams, consultants, and contractors.
- Develop and maintain risk registers, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely updates of qualitative and quantitative risk data.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (including Monte Carlo simulations) to evaluate schedule and cost impacts.
- Support the integration of risk data into overall project control and performance reporting processes.
- Track risk response actions and mitigation plans to ensure timely implementation and effectiveness.
- Develop and prepare risk reports and dashboards for governance reviews, leadership reporting, and audits.
- Collaborate with project managers, planners, cost controllers, and other stakeholders to embed risk awareness and practices into daily project execution.
- Ensure alignment of project risk practices with corporate risk management policies and frameworks.
- Contribute to lessons learned, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement in project risk practices.
- Provide training, coaching, and guidance to project teams and junior risk analysts on risk tools and techniques.
- Support stage gate reviews, assurance activities, and internal/external audits related to project risk management.
- Facilitate risk workshops, training sessions, and awareness programs across the organization.
- Design and implement risk mitigation strategies, policies, and procedures to reduce exposure to identified risks
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
- Certification in Risk Management (e.g., PMI-RMP, MoR, or equivalent) is preferred.
Minimum Experience
- Minimum 4–6 years of progressive experience in risk management, preferably within the mining, energy, or heavy industrial sectors.
- Proven experience in enterprise risk frameworks, operational risk, and project risk in large-scale industrial environments.
- Experience working in multinational or complex matrix organizations is preferred.
- Experience in conducting and leading risk assessments and using risk analysis tools such as @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, or similar.
Ma’aden High Performance Competencies
- Achievement Drive
- Communication
- Developing others
- Teamwork & collaboration
- Analytical thinking
- Task- and outcome-focused behaviors
- Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
Skills
- Deep knowledge of ERM frameworks
- Must have a thorough knowledge of process and engineering practices, design details, international Codes, Standards and Specifications
- Ability to identify and mitigate risks throughout all project phases, from conceptual design to execution and commissioning.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative risk analysis skills
- Must have a practical understanding of safety and environmental fundamentals and application
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to multi-task various assignments and consistently meet project deadlines with positive organizational outcomes
- Proficiency in risk management tools and software
- Knowledge of reading and using project control tools (Primavera, MS Project, MS Office, etc.)
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills
- Strong facilitation and training capabilities
- Project management and cross-functional collaboration.
About Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden)
Public Saudi mining company producing phosphate, aluminum, gold, copper, and industrial minerals for domestic and global markets.
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