Risk Specialist

Assignment Description

• Ensure delivery and maintain standard, consistent and realistic risk profiles for capital projects.
• Ensure delivery and maintain standard, consistent and realistic risk profiles. 
• Establish, create and maintain risk management system.
• Demonstrate sound understanding of and ability to apply both qualitative and quantitative Risk Management theories, tools and techniques.
• Identify appropriate responsible parties for risk ownerships and allocate register entries.
• Structure and populate the risk management tool, enable user training and establish/implement the process for regular status reviews.
• Organize, frame and facilitate risk workshops.
• Engage with multiple project and stakeholder personnel to gather data in order to develop/refresh the Opportunity/Risk Register
• Challenge and encourage alternate views to fully explore potential scenario outcomes.
• Stimulate identification of mitigating actions and qualitative impact and likelihood assessments. 
• Perform Probabilistic Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis
• Quantify impacts into duration/cost ranges. 
• Assess and establish appropriate probability distributions.
• Analyze the model output and develop overview presentation material to explain the results and key schedule risk areas.
• Develop overview reports of risk/opportunity status for management.
• Implement and manage risk management plans utilizing Company’s risk management standards.
• Maintain and manage risk registers.
• Present risk management status to Project Leadership Team and generate monthly risk management reports.
• Interface with project team members to discuss and challenge risk status and close out references.
• Interpret and explain Cost Schedule & Risk Analysis output to Project Leadership and Review teams.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, and/or Certification as a Risk Management Analyst or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of industry experience as Risk Management Lead or in Project Engineering.
• Strong competency using Risk Tools such as Easy Risk, Pertmaster and @Risk.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Experience facilitating risk/opportunity brainstorming workshops.
• Experience working in all phases of project development within both a project and matrix organizations.

Duration

Long-term contract

Location

Houston