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About Parsons Corporation

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Risk Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position offers an opportunity to contribute to projects within an innovative culture that values people, embraces agility, and fosters growth.

Role Overview

The Risk Manager will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of the project risk management framework. This role involves establishing comprehensive risk management procedures, methodologies, tools, and reporting mechanisms across the entire project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with project requirements and international best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project risk registers, risk breakdown structures, risk categories, and risk ownership frameworks.
• Ensure effective implementation of risk management processes across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational phases.
• Facilitate risk identification workshops with project stakeholders, contractors, consultants, and discipline leads.
• Identify, assess, and analyze project risks related to cost, schedule, quality, safety, design, construction, interfaces, procurement, and operations.
• Evaluate risk probability, impact, exposure, and trends to support informed decision-making.
• Develop and monitor risk mitigation, contingency, and response strategies, tracking actions and escalation requirements.
• Support quantitative and qualitative risk assessments for project schedule and cost performance.
• Prepare regular risk reports, dashboards, heat maps, trend analysis, and executive risk summaries.
• Provide accurate and timely risk information to project management and senior stakeholders.

Specific Risk Management Focus

• Manage risks associated with airport airfield development, including runways, taxiways, aprons, pavements, utilities, and supporting infrastructure.
• Assess risks related to aviation operational requirements, airside access, safety constraints, and phased construction activities.
• Support identification of risks associated with complex civil works, utilities integration, interfaces, and airport systems.
• Monitor project risks related to constructability, logistics, temporary works, and operational continuity.
• Assess risks associated with design changes, variations, scope changes, and project decisions, supporting change control processes.
• Review contractor risk assessments, method statements, construction plans, and recovery strategies.

Collaboration and Compliance

• Coordinate with planning, commercial, client representatives, contractors, consultants, and authorities on risk-related matters.
• Facilitate risk review meetings, workshops, and interface coordination sessions.
• Support integration of HSE, environmental, and operational risks into the overall project risk framework.
• Ensure risk management activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and industry standards.
• Promote lessons learned, risk knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in risk management, preferably within large-scale infrastructure or airport development projects. The role requires a proactive approach to embedding a risk management culture and strong analytical skills to support informed decision-making.