Risk Manager, Projects - Johannesburg, South Africa - Hatch

Hatch
Hatch
Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter
Description

Requisition ID:86470


Job Category:
Construction


Location:
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change.

With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate.

With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.


Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe.

With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space.

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Risk Manager, Projects


Recent growth of the Risk Management practice has created an immediate need for an individual to join our team in the role of Risk Manager, Projects within the Johannesburg Office.

We are searching for an senior level risk management practitioner, who can bring 10 to 15 years of experience in the development, coordination and implementation of risk management activities on large projects, across the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors within Africa, Europe, Middle East and India region.


Position Summary


Reporting to the AEM Regional Manager Risk, and functionally to the Global Director, Risk Management, the incumbent in this role will support engagement teams in all aspects of risk management and ensures that the risk management plan developed for the engagement is aligned with the client's project and investment guidelines.


This role will also assist the AEM Regional Manager, Risk, in furthering and growing the risk management practice within the AEM region and assist with the efforts to enhance the profile and effectiveness of the risk management function within the business.


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead risk planning for assigned engagements and develop appropriate risk management plans
  • Facilitate the threat and opportunity identification process and link the identified threats and opportunities to engagement and business unit components and/or strategic organizational goals and strategies.
  • Maintain the engagement risk register to ensure all risks and their characteristics are appropriately and accurately documented; ensures risk response actions are being developed, executed, updated and completed as planned;
  • Guide the engagements and business units through appropriate steps of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment and prepare realistic and actionable risk treatment plans for the identified threats and opportunities that are consistent with standard organizational practices and strategic objectives.
  • Provide Project Managers with timely assessment of the current status of all threats and opportunities, the occurrence of any triggers, the effectiveness of any treatment plans that are being executed and implementation recovery plans for those that are not working as expected
  • Periodically reevaluate threats and opportunities for their continued relevance, true priority, anticipated effectiveness of the proposed risk treatment plans and validity of documented trigger event
  • Contributes to fostering a knowledge sharing culture by actively participating in the risk knowledge networks and collaborative forums.
  • Plans and facilitates hazard studies (i.e. HAZAN, HAZOPs)
  • Plans and facilitates decision analysis and value engineering workshops

Qualifications and Requirements

  • Postsecondary degree from a recognized university, ideally in engineering or business. A professional risk or project management designation is desirable (i.e., CRM, PMI-RMP, GARP, PMP etc.,)
  • Minimum 10 year experience in a risk management, project management or project related roles. (i.e. project controls)
  • Minimum 10 year experience in workshop facilitation involving large groups of people, combined with technical knowledge of hazard studies techniques.
  • Expert knowledge of the risk management process and know how to adapt it to the client and project needs; understand how risk creates value on projects.
  • Working knowledge of quantitative models of cost and schedule, and facilitation of quantitative risk analysis to determine schedule and cost risk events, schedule risk analysis, cost risk analysis as part of the integrated model.
  • Good understanding of and experience with project management, cost estimating and project scheduling principles, tools and techniques.
  • Strong team player with excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills in English. Similar skills in a second language such as French, Spanish, Portug
More jobs from Hatch
See all jobs of Hatch