Risk Manager - Project Controls
Posted date [2026-10-02]
(ID: 52807)
Job Description and Requirements
Risk Manager - Project ControlsJob Snapshot
Role: Risk Manager
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Construction
Function: Project-Program Management
Experience: 15+ years of related experience
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Parsons is seeking an experienced Risk Manager to join its site-based construction supervision team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting a major public realm development in Diriyah. The program encompasses iconic and neighborhood parks, open spaces, and more than 55 kilometers of streetscape. The Risk Manager will lead project risk identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation, and reporting while working closely with project controls personnel responsible for cost, schedule, and performance monitoring.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Construction
Function: Project-Program Management
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and specialized support for identifying, assessing, and quantifying project risks.
- Establish appropriate risk levels and support the development
of mitigation measures.
- Interface with the Client, participate in regular meetings, and provide statistical risk information and reports.
- Work alongside project controls personnel responsible for analyzing, evaluating, and forecasting project costs and performance against established schedules and critical milestones.
- Assess risks associated with design changes, construction changes, and schedule slippages.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of systems supporting the hierarchy of project plans and schedules.
- Keep project and company management informed of significant risks, trends, and relevant project controls information.
- Coordinate project risk management requirements and assign and supervise related risk activities.
- Recommend and oversee customization of the project risk register to reflect specific project requirements.
- Maintain risk information in a structured and usable format for project monitoring and management.
- Prepare recurring and project-specific statistical reports for management.
- Support business development activities by gathering and presenting relevant background information when required.
- Prepare and deliver informal or formal presentations as required.
- Perform other responsibilities associated with the position where appropriate.
Project Risk and Controls
The Risk Manager will provide structured risk management support within a construction supervision environment, linking project risks with cost, schedule, design, and construction performance. This requires close coordination with project controls personnel to understand how emerging issues and changes may affect established milestones and project objectives.
A central responsibility will be maintaining an effective project risk register and ensuring that identified risks are evaluated, monitored, communicated, and supported by appropriate mitigation actions.
Public Realm Development
The position supports a major Diriyah public realm program comprising parks, open spaces, and extensive streetscape works. Risk management activities will therefore operate within a multidisciplinary construction environment where design development, construction progress, schedule performance, and project controls need to remain closely coordinated.
Qualifications
- Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- 15+ years of related professional experience.
- Supervisory or managerial experience.
- Basic engineering knowledge in electrical, mechanical, civil, or a related discipline.
- Proficiency with relevant project controls software.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Proven ability to perform effectively in a supervisory capacity.
- Thorough knowledge of applicable industry practices.
- Ability to meet Parsons Project Controls Manager Certification requirements.
About Parsons
Parsons provides opportunities to contribute to complex construction and infrastructure programs while working with multidisciplinary project teams and clients. The company emphasizes employee wellbeing, professional growth, innovation, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity across job levels.
- Interface with the Client, participate in regular meetings, and provide statistical risk information and reports.
- Work alongside project controls personnel responsible for analyzing, evaluating, and forecasting project costs and performance against established schedules and critical milestones.
- Assess risks associated with design changes, construction changes, and schedule slippages.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of systems supporting the hierarchy of project plans and schedules.
- Keep project and company management informed of significant risks, trends, and relevant project controls information.
- Coordinate project risk management requirements and assign and supervise related risk activities.
- Recommend and oversee customization of the project risk register to reflect specific project requirements.
- Maintain risk information in a structured and usable format for project monitoring and management.
- Prepare recurring and project-specific statistical reports for management.
- Support business development activities by gathering and presenting relevant background information when required.
- Prepare and deliver informal or formal presentations as required.
- Perform other responsibilities associated with the position where appropriate.
Project Risk and Controls
The Risk Manager will provide structured risk management support within a construction supervision environment, linking project risks with cost, schedule, design, and construction performance. This requires close coordination with project controls personnel to understand how emerging issues and changes may affect established milestones and project objectives.
A central responsibility will be maintaining an effective project risk register and ensuring that identified risks are evaluated, monitored, communicated, and supported by appropriate mitigation actions.
Public Realm Development
The position supports a major Diriyah public realm program comprising parks, open spaces, and extensive streetscape works. Risk management activities will therefore operate within a multidisciplinary construction environment where design development, construction progress, schedule performance, and project controls need to remain closely coordinated.
Qualifications
- Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- 15+ years of related professional experience.
- Supervisory or managerial experience.
- Basic engineering knowledge in electrical, mechanical, civil, or a related discipline.
- Proficiency with relevant project controls software.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Proven ability to perform effectively in a supervisory capacity.
- Thorough knowledge of applicable industry practices.
- Ability to meet Parsons Project Controls Manager Certification requirements.
About Parsons
Parsons provides opportunities to contribute to complex construction and infrastructure programs while working with multidisciplinary project teams and clients. The company emphasizes employee wellbeing, professional growth, innovation, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity across job levels.
