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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden - Saudi Arabian Mining Company | معادن, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing the mining industry to become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building an integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview

Ma'aden is seeking a Lead Engineer, Risk Management to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves 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 focuses on 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in risk management.

Work Environment

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