Risk Lead

Requisition ID: 300714 - Relocation Authorized: National/International - Single - Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project - Work Location: Riyadh Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects: Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver. Learn more about our extraordinary teams building inspiring projects in our Impact Report. Project Overview: Expo 2030 Riyadh is a global platform where countries, organizations, and individuals will come together to collaborate. Under the theme “Foresight for Tomorrow,” the Expo promotes sustainable development, innovation, and transformative thinking. The event will be held from October 2030 to March 2031 and is expected to welcome over 40 million visits. The 6 km² Masterplan outlines a comprehensive framework for participation and infrastructure at the Expo. The exhibition space, totaling 491,100 m² GFA, can accommodate up to 197 participating countries and 29 international organizations. Working collaboratively with our customer, Expo 2030 Riyadh Company (ERC), Bechtel will manage the infrastructure program which comprises early works, utilities, and publicly accessible spaces like streets and parks. Our scope on the six-square-kilometer site will transition into a mixed-use legacy development to serve the community after the six-month event is over. The project’s master plan leverages international sustainability standards for urban afforestation, treated water, and energy sources. Job Summary: The Risk Lead / Risk Engineer leads the project-level risk and issue management cycle and supports the Risk Manager in maintaining an integrated, decision-focused risk management framework. The role facilitates regular reviews with project teams, ensures risks and issues are accurately assessed and updated, challenges the adequacy of response actions, and verifies that actions are completed and closed in a timely manner. The role also develops and runs quantitative schedule risk analysis models in Safran Risk at both project and programme levels and provides validated inputs to the Risk Analyst for recurring and ad hoc reporting. Major Responsibilities: - Lead and facilitate project risk and opportunity reviews and issue review sessions with PMC, ERC, Project Controls, Planning, Commercial, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and other relevant stakeholders. - Maintain the completeness and quality of project risk and issue registers in Active Risk Manager (ARM), including clear cause-event-effect statements, ownership, scoring, response strategies, due dates, escalation status, and supporting evidence. - Challenge risk owners and action owners on the adequacy, practicality, and expected effectiveness of mitigation and recovery actions. - Monitor overdue and ageing actions, follow up with accountable owners, identify barriers to completion, and escalate material delays or ineffective responses to the Risk Manager. - Confirm that proposed action closures are supported by evidence and that residual exposure has been reassessed before recommending closure. - Identify cross-project and programme-level risks and support their consolidation, escalation, and de-escalation. - Develop, validate, run, and maintain QSRA models in Safran Risk for individual projects and consolidated programme analysis, including schedule quality checks, uncertainty ranges, risk-event mapping, sensitivity analysis, and confidence-level outputs. - Work with Planning and Project Controls teams to confirm that schedules used for QSRA are logically sound, appropriately statuses, and suitable for probabilistic analysis. - Interpret QSRA outputs, including key drivers, criticality, probability distributions, and confidence dates, and prepare clear management-level conclusions and recommendations. - Support the Risk Manager in implementing the risk management plan, governance, escalation criteria, assurance checks, workshops, and continuous improvement activities. - Provide timely, quality-assured risk, issue, action, escalation, and QSRA inputs to the Risk Analyst for weekly, monthly, and ad hoc client reporting. - Coach the Risk Analyst and project stakeholders on risk data quality, reporti

Skills/qualifications: Strong experience in project risk management at large-scale infrastructure or construction programs. Proficiency with risk tools such as Active Risk Manager (ARM) and Safran Risk. Ability to develop and run quantitative schedule risk analyses (QSRA), interpret outputs, and provide management-ready conclusions. Experience coordinating with cross-functional teams (Planning, Commercial, Engineering, Procurement, Construction) and facilitating risk/issue review sessions. Demonstrated ability to challenge risk owners, track actions, and ensure closure with evidence. Strong communication skills for reporting to Risk Manager and clients. Knowledge of risk governance, escalation criteria, and continuous improvement processes.

Lead and facilitate project risk and opportunity reviews and issue sessions with stakeholders; maintain quality risk and issue registers in ARM; challenge adequacy of mitigation actions; monitor overdue actions and escalate delays; ensure action closures are supported by evidence; identify cross-project/program risks and assist in their consolidation and escalation; develop and maintain QSRA models in Safran Risk; ensure schedules used for QSRA are logically sound and suitable for probabilistic analysis; interpret QSRA outputs and prepare management recommendations; support risk management plan implementation, governance, and assurance activities; provide risk, issue, action, escalation, and QSRA inputs for reporting; coach Risk Analyst and project stakeholders on data quality and reporting.