Risk Manager - Project Controls
Posted date [2026-07-06]
(ID: 47528)
Job Description and Requirements
Risk Manager - Project ControlsJob Snapshot
Role: Risk Manager - Project Controls
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Construction
Function: Risk Management
Experience: 15 years risk management experience
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Risk Manager - Project Controls in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced risk professional who can lead risk planning, qualitative and quantitative assessments, risk workshops, mitigation tracking, executive reporting, and project uncertainty analysis. The role supports major project and programme delivery by connecting risk management with scheduling, cost estimating, project controls, constructability reviews, and decision-making across complex construction environments.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Construction
Function: Risk Management
Salary: 45000-65000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Risk Manager will guide the full risk
management process across the project lifecycle, helping teams identify, assess, prioritize, mitigate, and monitor threats and opportunities that may affect cost, schedule, quality, delivery certainty, and stakeholder outcomes. This position plays a key role in facilitating structured risk workshops, maintaining reliable risk registers, producing clear management reports, supporting executive presentations, and using statistical analysis to connect uncertainty with planned project activities. The role strengthens project governance by turning risk information into practical recommendations for project teams and senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities
* Facilitate risk workshops, risk reviews, and structured risk assessment sessions throughout the project lifecycle.
* Lead the project team and stakeholders through risk identification, definition, assessment, analysis, mitigation, ownership, and monitoring.
* Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on individual risks and wider project risk exposure.
* Maintain and periodically update risk registers, risk repositories, assessment records, mitigation trackers, and risk reporting databases.
* Monitor emerging risks, analyze risk trends, and work with risk owners to evaluate exposure and define practical mitigation actions.
* Analyze the likelihood of achieving project cost and schedule targets by linking uncertainty to planned project activities.
* Support schedule risk analysis, cost risk analysis, Monte Carlo-style assessments, and scenario-based risk reviews where required.
* Prepare clear risk reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries for project teams, senior management, and client stakeholders.
* Develop custom risk reports for different levels of the organization, including executive management.
* Support knowledge sharing across portfolios and programmes by capturing lessons learned, recurring risks, mitigation approaches, and improvement opportunities.
* Lead or support training materials for risk management awareness, process adoption, tools usage, and risk-related education across project teams.
* Coordinate with IT and system administrators to resolve risk software issues and maintain effective risk management tools.
* Monitor updates to risk repositories, reporting tools, and assessment platforms to protect data integrity and reporting consistency.
* Develop work schedules for risk deliverables, reporting cycles, workshop preparation, and senior management submissions.
* Assist management in preparing executive-level presentations covering risk status, key exposures, trends, mitigation plans, and required decisions.
* Oversee meeting minutes, reports, action logs, and related documentation for enterprise risk applications and project risk reviews.
* Interpret complex risk information and present recommendations in a clear, confident, accurate, and concise manner.
* Support constructability reviews, schedule critical reviews, cost estimate scrutiny, and analysis of areas where uncertainty may affect project outcomes.
* Coordinate with planning, project controls, commercial, engineering, construction, and management teams to ensure risk information supports live project decisions.
* Promote consistent risk management discipline, accountability, and early warning practices across project teams.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field from a Western university.
* Minimum 15 years of experience in a project-oriented environment performing risk management.
* Strong background in risk planning, risk assessment facilitation, risk mitigation, risk analysis, and risk reporting.
* Experience facilitating risk workshops with project stakeholders, senior management, contractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
* Practical knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment processes, tools, applications, and reporting methods.
* Experience using Oracle or Primavera Risk Analysis, Primavera-based risk assessment tools, or similar risk management applications.
* Familiarity with computer-based scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera Project Planner, Primavera P6, or similar platforms.
* Strong understanding of construction management fundamentals, project scheduling, cost estimating, project controls, constructability reviews, and schedule criticality.
* PMI-RMP certification is highly desirable.
* Leadership, management, programme management, project management, strategic planning, or performance management certification is preferred.
* Proven ability to perform in a management capacity within complex project or programme environments.
* Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail, data accuracy, and structured reporting.
* Able to identify key issues, interpret technical and commercial information, and present clear risk-based recommendations.
* Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
* In-depth knowledge of industry practices, regulations, governance expectations, and project risk management standards.
* Self-motivated and able to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, workshops, reports, and stakeholder demands.
* Confident working with senior stakeholders and presenting complex risk information in a practical, decision-ready format.
Skills Set
* Risk management
* Project risk planning
* Qualitative risk assessment
* Quantitative risk assessment
* Risk workshops
* Risk register management
* Risk mitigation
* Risk analysis
* Risk reporting
* Executive reporting
* Risk dashboards
* Cost risk analysis
* Schedule risk analysis
* Project controls
* Construction management
* Primavera Risk Analysis
* Oracle risk tools
* Primavera P6
* Microsoft Project
* Project scheduling
* Cost estimating
* Schedule critical reviews
* Constructability reviews
* Risk trends analysis
* Emerging risk monitoring
* Risk repository management
* Risk software coordination
* Enterprise risk applications
* Mitigation tracking
* Lessons learned
* Workshop facilitation
* Executive presentations
* Statistical analysis
* Project governance
* Stakeholder coordination
* Risk training
* PMI-RMP
* Strategic planning
* Performance management
* Analytical reporting
Why Join Us
This role gives an experienced Risk Manager the opportunity to support major project delivery in Riyadh through structured risk planning, advanced analysis, workshop facilitation, and senior-level reporting. The position offers strong exposure to project controls, schedule and cost uncertainty, construction risk, executive decision support, and portfolio-level lessons learned within a global infrastructure organization. It is a valuable opportunity for a risk professional who wants to improve delivery confidence, strengthen governance, and help protect high-value construction programmes in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, construction management, and project delivery company supporting major construction, utilities, transportation, urban development, public realm, and civil infrastructure programmes. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to large-scale development through risk management, project controls, technical expertise, safety leadership, construction management, and practical delivery knowledge that help create reliable and future-ready infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
* Facilitate risk workshops, risk reviews, and structured risk assessment sessions throughout the project lifecycle.
* Lead the project team and stakeholders through risk identification, definition, assessment, analysis, mitigation, ownership, and monitoring.
* Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on individual risks and wider project risk exposure.
* Maintain and periodically update risk registers, risk repositories, assessment records, mitigation trackers, and risk reporting databases.
* Monitor emerging risks, analyze risk trends, and work with risk owners to evaluate exposure and define practical mitigation actions.
* Analyze the likelihood of achieving project cost and schedule targets by linking uncertainty to planned project activities.
* Support schedule risk analysis, cost risk analysis, Monte Carlo-style assessments, and scenario-based risk reviews where required.
* Prepare clear risk reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries for project teams, senior management, and client stakeholders.
* Develop custom risk reports for different levels of the organization, including executive management.
* Support knowledge sharing across portfolios and programmes by capturing lessons learned, recurring risks, mitigation approaches, and improvement opportunities.
* Lead or support training materials for risk management awareness, process adoption, tools usage, and risk-related education across project teams.
* Coordinate with IT and system administrators to resolve risk software issues and maintain effective risk management tools.
* Monitor updates to risk repositories, reporting tools, and assessment platforms to protect data integrity and reporting consistency.
* Develop work schedules for risk deliverables, reporting cycles, workshop preparation, and senior management submissions.
* Assist management in preparing executive-level presentations covering risk status, key exposures, trends, mitigation plans, and required decisions.
* Oversee meeting minutes, reports, action logs, and related documentation for enterprise risk applications and project risk reviews.
* Interpret complex risk information and present recommendations in a clear, confident, accurate, and concise manner.
* Support constructability reviews, schedule critical reviews, cost estimate scrutiny, and analysis of areas where uncertainty may affect project outcomes.
* Coordinate with planning, project controls, commercial, engineering, construction, and management teams to ensure risk information supports live project decisions.
* Promote consistent risk management discipline, accountability, and early warning practices across project teams.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field from a Western university.
* Minimum 15 years of experience in a project-oriented environment performing risk management.
* Strong background in risk planning, risk assessment facilitation, risk mitigation, risk analysis, and risk reporting.
* Experience facilitating risk workshops with project stakeholders, senior management, contractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
* Practical knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment processes, tools, applications, and reporting methods.
* Experience using Oracle or Primavera Risk Analysis, Primavera-based risk assessment tools, or similar risk management applications.
* Familiarity with computer-based scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera Project Planner, Primavera P6, or similar platforms.
* Strong understanding of construction management fundamentals, project scheduling, cost estimating, project controls, constructability reviews, and schedule criticality.
* PMI-RMP certification is highly desirable.
* Leadership, management, programme management, project management, strategic planning, or performance management certification is preferred.
* Proven ability to perform in a management capacity within complex project or programme environments.
* Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail, data accuracy, and structured reporting.
* Able to identify key issues, interpret technical and commercial information, and present clear risk-based recommendations.
* Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
* In-depth knowledge of industry practices, regulations, governance expectations, and project risk management standards.
* Self-motivated and able to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, workshops, reports, and stakeholder demands.
* Confident working with senior stakeholders and presenting complex risk information in a practical, decision-ready format.
Skills Set
* Risk management
* Project risk planning
* Qualitative risk assessment
* Quantitative risk assessment
* Risk workshops
* Risk register management
* Risk mitigation
* Risk analysis
* Risk reporting
* Executive reporting
* Risk dashboards
* Cost risk analysis
* Schedule risk analysis
* Project controls
* Construction management
* Primavera Risk Analysis
* Oracle risk tools
* Primavera P6
* Microsoft Project
* Project scheduling
* Cost estimating
* Schedule critical reviews
* Constructability reviews
* Risk trends analysis
* Emerging risk monitoring
* Risk repository management
* Risk software coordination
* Enterprise risk applications
* Mitigation tracking
* Lessons learned
* Workshop facilitation
* Executive presentations
* Statistical analysis
* Project governance
* Stakeholder coordination
* Risk training
* PMI-RMP
* Strategic planning
* Performance management
* Analytical reporting
Why Join Us
This role gives an experienced Risk Manager the opportunity to support major project delivery in Riyadh through structured risk planning, advanced analysis, workshop facilitation, and senior-level reporting. The position offers strong exposure to project controls, schedule and cost uncertainty, construction risk, executive decision support, and portfolio-level lessons learned within a global infrastructure organization. It is a valuable opportunity for a risk professional who wants to improve delivery confidence, strengthen governance, and help protect high-value construction programmes in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, construction management, and project delivery company supporting major construction, utilities, transportation, urban development, public realm, and civil infrastructure programmes. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to large-scale development through risk management, project controls, technical expertise, safety leadership, construction management, and practical delivery knowledge that help create reliable and future-ready infrastructure.
