Lead Engineer Risk Management

About the Role of Lead Engineer, Risk Management

Maaden is seeking a Lead Engineer, Risk Management to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time position focused on leading and supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of enterprise-wide risk management practices across capital and major projects within the Project Management Office (PMO). The role is crucial for ensuring proactive identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting of project risks to support effective decision-making and enhance project certainty and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead 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.

Experience Required

Candidates should possess over 10 years of relevant experience in risk management, particularly within capital and major projects.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.