Project Risk Manager - EMEA

Accountabilities

• Lead the regional project risk management programme across the EMEA portfolio, establishing consistent governance, standards, processes, methodologies, and escalation requirements.


• Embed risk management throughout the project lifecycle and across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, Commissioning, and Operations Readiness.


• Provide independent risk oversight and constructive challenge to project and functional leadership, ensuring significant risks and opportunities receive appropriate attention.


• Promote a proactive risk culture based on early identification, clear ownership, accountability, timely escalation, and risk-informed decision-making.


• Act as the regional subject matter expert and trusted adviser on project and portfolio risk for project, regional, and executive leadership.


• Lead the identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and closure of project risks and opportunities.


• Build, maintain, and oversee project risk registers, ensuring material risks have clear owners, mitigation strategies, action plans, residual assessments, and escalation paths.


• Assess delivery risks across design, permitting, grid connection, procurement, long-lead equipment, construction, commercial and contractual performance, commissioning, energisation, and capacity delivery.


• Consolidate project-level risks at regional level to identify emerging, systemic, correlated, and concentration risks requiring portfolio-wide action.


• Promote the identification and realization of opportunities relating to cost, schedule, standardisation, procurement, constructability, and overall project execution.


• Lead qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including Monte Carlo simulation, Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), scenario analysis, and other probabilistic techniques.


• Assess cost exposure, schedule uncertainty, critical-path risks, key milestones, and confidence in achieving committed delivery and ready-for-service dates.


• Develop risk-based recommendations for project contingency and management reserves and support governance over their utilization and release.


• Analyse regional risk drivers, correlations, scenarios, and sensitivities to identify potential portfolio impacts and mitigation priorities.


• Provide risk analysis and recommendations for investment decisions, stage gates, baseline approvals, major contract awards, and other significant project decisions.


• Produce concise project and regional reporting covering top risks and opportunities, emerging exposures, trends, mitigation effectiveness, contingency status, and matters requiring escalation.


• Develop risk dashboards and analytics that provide visibility into exposure, trends, concentrations, and confidence across cost, schedule, commissioning, and capacity commitments.


• Monitor mitigation progress, overdue actions, changes in exposure, realised risks, and significant issues requiring project, regional, or executive attention.


• Conduct periodic project risk reviews and health checks to assess the quality and effectiveness of risk identification, analysis, mitigation, reporting, and governance.


• Independently test project assumptions, forecasts, contingency requirements, mitigation strategies, and confidence levels to ensure material exposures are understood and communicated appropriately.


• Identify recurring risks, systemic weaknesses, successful mitigation strategies, and lessons learned across projects and incorporate them into future delivery approaches.


• Drive continuous improvement across risk processes, methodologies, tools, analytics, reporting, and organisational risk capability.

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.


• Significant professional experience in risk management, project controls, or project delivery within complex EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, mission-critical, or major capital programmes.


• Demonstrated experience leading project and portfolio risk management, including identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and assurance.


• Strong understanding of cost, schedule, contingency, and project controls principles and how they integrate with project risk management.


• Advanced experience applying quantitative risk analysis and probabilistic techniques to assess project cost and schedule uncertainty.


• Strong hands-on experience with Monte Carlo simulation, cost and schedule risk analysis, scenario analysis, and risk-based contingency development.


• Strong understanding of EPC contracting, procurement, supply chain, change management, claims, and commercial risk.


• Proven ability to influence and constructively challenge senior project and functional leaders in complex, fast-moving environments.


• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear business insights and recommended actions.


• Ability to identify systemic and correlated risks across multiple projects and provide regional-level insight to support management decisions.


• Experience delivering hyperscale, AI, mission-critical, or large-scale data centre programmes is advantageous.


• Familiarity with power, cooling, grid connections, long-lead equipment, commissioning, and capacity delivery is a plus.


• Experience with enterprise or project risk management platforms and their integration with scheduling, cost management, and reporting systems is beneficial.


• Relevant professional certification such as PMI-RMP, PMP, APM PMQ or ChPP, AACE International, IRM, or an equivalent risk or project management credential is advantageous.


• Working knowledge of recognised risk management frameworks, including ISO 31000 and PMBOK, with familiarity with standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001.


• Experience presenting portfolio risk, contingency, schedule confidence, and emerging exposures to executive leadership or governance committees.


• Experience with @Risk, Riskonnect, Safran, or comparable industry-standard risk management tools is a plus.


• Strong analytical thinking, sound judgement, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

• Competitive salary based on the scope and value of the role rather than previous compensation.


• Equity opportunity, allowing eligible employees to participate in the organisation's long-term growth.


• Discretionary bonus opportunity.


• Retirement or pension contributions.


• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.


• Generous annual vacation allowance.


• Fully remote working environment within Europe.


• Opportunity to work on large-scale AI infrastructure and major capital projects.


• High-impact role with significant exposure to regional and executive-level decision-making.


• Collaborative environment focused on professional development, trust, autonomy, and sustainable work-life balance.


• Opportunity to contribute to the development of risk management practices across a rapidly scaling international infrastructure portfolio.

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