Senior Project Risk Engineer

Position Summary:

The Senior Project Risk Engineer leads the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks across all phases of large-scale construction projects, from pre-design through closeout, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards. They develop and implement comprehensive risk management plans, facilitate stakeholder meetings, and manage cost, claims, change orders, and potential financial liabilities. The role requires extensive experience in pre-construction management, commercial risk practices, risk quantification, and maintaining risk management databases, with the ability to operate independently in an international project environment.

General Description of Role and Responsibilities:

• Has a strong background in pre-construction management including contract management, procurement, tendering, estimating, and cost. Should have good working knowledge of schedule management, sequence of activities from pre-design to design development to construction and closeout.
• Manage and oversee all aspects of project planning, development and implementation for a range of projects. Facilitate meetings with clients, consultants, and contractors to identify, assess, and evaluate risk issues arising from different phases in the project lifecycle.
• Prepare and implement a risk management plan for construction projects outlining the processes to mitigate risks. These plans should include risk identification procedures, risk evaluation procedures, and risk mitigation procedures.
• Frequently facilitate meetings with clients, consultants, and other management teams.
• Predicting potential financial liability for the Division from data provided by collieries, relevant authorities and the Division itself.
• Handling costs, claims associated with cost and time, change order management, and conflict resolution.
• Ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope in line with established agency project management methodology.
• Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures in place within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.