The Company

Our client is a leading energy infrastructure organisation operating critical transmission assets across Australia. They are committed to delivering reliable energy solutions while maintaining the highest standards of safety, environmental responsibility, and operational excellence. This forward-thinking organisation values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, offering excellent career development opportunities within a supportive team environment.

The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Project Risk Specialist to join our client's Major Projects Office. This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in driving and enhancing the maturity of risk management across a significant portfolio of major infrastructure projects, embedding an effective risk culture and implementing best-practice risk management frameworks.

As a Project Risk Specialist, you will be responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with Risk Management Framework and ISO 31000:2018 principles across all major projects. This position is ideal for a risk professional who is passionate about building risk capability, providing specialist advice, and contributing to the successful delivery of critical infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and ensure compliance with Risk Management Framework and ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management Principles and Guidelines across all major projects
• Contribute to embedding a risk-based assurance model where identified project and portfolio risks inform planning and execution of assurance activities
• Develop, implement, and maintain project risk management processes, templates, and guidelines to support effective risk management
• Provide specialist risk advice, facilitation, and support to major projects throughout all stages of the project lifecycle
• Conduct risk awareness and management workshops at project and portfolio levels to support decision making
• Ensure effective risk management at portfolio level, including risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, evaluation, management, communication, presentation, and dashboarding
• Coordinate and conduct Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRAs) and scenario modelling to support contingency allocation
• Support major projects in maintaining and monitoring an effective risk and control environment
• Build and enhance project risk management capability through education and awareness activities
• Provide risk oversight and reporting at project and portfolio levels to management, committees and stakeholders
• Support preparation and collation of information, holding stakeholders accountable to ensure activities and responses meet business objectives

About You:

• Degree qualification in business, project management, finance or allied discipline (or lower level qualification in relevant discipline coupled with significant experience in project delivery environment)
• Demonstrated experience, knowledge and application of Risk Management Frameworks in large-scale infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated experience in application of a range of risk management techniques, consistent with international and Australian risk management standards and best practice
• Demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring and educating others in risk management methodologies, principles, tools and techniques, specifically within large-scale project environments
• Demonstrated ability to support preparation and collation of information and hold stakeholders accountable to ensure activities meet business objectives
• Working knowledge of complex infrastructure projects with specific experience in development and implementation of risk management practices
• Demonstrated ability to develop and facilitate risk assessment workshops at both project and portfolio levels
• Demonstrated understanding and experience in use of proprietary software systems (e.g. LogicGate, Hexagon, Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau, or similar) used in project risk management
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable:

• Certified Practising Risk professional with membership of the Risk Management Institute of Australasia
• Experience in energy/infrastructure sector
• Experience with risk-based assurance models

Apply Today

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