Risk Specialist

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh is seeking a Risk Specialist to join their team. This full-time role involves identifying, analyzing, and managing risks associated with dam projects, covering all phases from design through rehabilitation. The specialist will be responsible for assessing various types of risks, reviewing operational data, and developing mitigation strategies to ensure dam safety and project success.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze risks related to dam design, construction, operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation activities.
• Assess technical, structural, geotechnical, hydrological, hydraulic, operational, environmental, financial, and industrial risks.
• Review inspection findings, monitoring data, asset-condition reports, incidents, and O&M performance to identify existing and emerging risks.
• Support risk assessments for flooding, extreme rainfall, overtopping, seepage, slope instability, structural deterioration, and equipment failure.
• Evaluate risk likelihood, potential consequences, and existing controls using approved risk-assessment methodologies.
• Develop practical prevention, mitigation, monitoring, and contingency plans.
• Support the preparation and implementation of risk-management policies, procedures, and control measures.
• Monitor preventive actions and verify their implementation against agreed responsibilities and target dates.
• Maintain project and operational risk registers, databases, models, and corrective-action trackers, recording risk descriptions, causes, consequences, ratings, controls, mitigation actions, owners, and due dates.
• Regularly update risk information to reflect changing site conditions, operational performance, and project developments.
• Assist with risk workshops, technical reviews, and multidisciplinary risk-assessment sessions.
• Coordinate with risk owners to obtain updates and follow up on overdue or incomplete mitigation actions.
• Review contractors’ risk-management plans, method statements, emergency arrangements, and relevant technical submissions.
• Monitor contractor compliance with approved risk controls and contractual requirements.
• Support the integration of risk requirements into project plans, O&M procedures, technical specifications, and contracts.
• Develop risk indicators, dashboards, trend analyses, and early-warning information.
• Prepare periodic risk reports, follow-up analyses, management summaries, and recommended actions.
• Escalate critical and high-priority risks in accordance with approved governance and communication procedures.
• Support emergency action planning, contingency planning, and business-continuity activities.
• Maintain organized records of risk studies, assessment reports, workshop outputs, and supporting evidence.
• Contribute to lessons-learned reviews and the continuous improvement of risk-management processes.
• Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and technical reports as required by the assignment.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Attend meetings, risk workshops, inspections, and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
• Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, Client procedures, quality requirements, and occupational health and safety obligations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Risk Management, or an equivalent discipline from a recognized university.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience closely related to dam design, operation, or maintenance.
• Proven experience conducting or supporting risk assessments for dams and associated infrastructure.
• Evidence of previous involvement in dam-risk studies, assessments, or reports is required.

Required Skills

• Understanding of dam-safety hazards, failure modes, consequence assessment, and risk-mitigation principles.
• Experience maintaining risk registers, databases, assessment models, and corrective-action trackers.
• Ability to analyze technical reports, inspection findings, monitoring data, and O&M performance information.
• Knowledge of qualitative and semi-quantitative risk-assessment methods.
• Strong analytical, technical-reporting, and data-management skills.

Work Type

This is a full-time position requiring 5-10 years of experience. Salary for this role will be disclosed upon application.