Risk Manager

Requisition ID: 22811 

Job Category: Project Management 

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada  

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we understand that challenges are changing rapidly in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

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 within the Vancouver Office. We are searching for an intermediate level risk management practitioner, who can bring minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in the development, coordination and implementation of risk management activities on large projects, and is looking to gain exposure to projects across the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Engagement Manager 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 assists the Global Director, Risk Management in furthering and growing the risk management practice within Western North America and assist with the efforts to enhance the profile and effectiveness of the risk management function within the region.

Responsibilities

• Develop effective relationships with clients, Engagement Managers, Business Directors and engagement teams
• 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

• Plans and facilitates hazard studies (i.e. HAZAN, HAZOPs)
• Maintains 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 Engagement Managers and Business Directors 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 re-evaluate threats and opportunities for their continued relevance, true priority, anticipated effectiveness of the proposed risk treatment plans and validity of documented trigger event
• Communicate and train engagement and business unit team members in risk management processes and procedures
• Assess the effectiveness of risk management processes across the organization and advise engagement and higher level management on how to enhance risk management effectiveness over time
• Participate in project set-up and project closure reviews, project gate reviews, project management reviews, quality audits, risk management independent reviews and recommend actions for improvement
• Assist with the development of risk management procedure and functional guides
• Tracks metrics to demonstrate a cultural acceptance of risk management throughout the region
• Contributes to fostering a knowledge sharing culture by actively participating in the risk knowledge networks and collaborative forums

Qualifications and Requirements

• Post-secondary degree from a recognized university, ideally in engineering or business. A professional risk or project management designation is desirable (i.e., CRM, PMI-PRM, GARP, PMP etc.,)
• Minimum 5 year experience in a risk management, project management or project related roles. (i.e. project controls)
• Minimum 5 year experience in workshop facilitation involving large groups of people, combined with technical knowledge of hazard studies techniques
• Expert knowledge in the application of International Risk Management Standards, i.e. ISO 31000, ISO 31010, IEC 62198, PRAM and PMI
• 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
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications; Working eexperience with modern risk management information systems and software. (i.e. @ Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, Predict!, CURA, etc)
• 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, Portuguese or Chinese are desirable
• Ability to understand, adapt and apply relevant risk management policies and procedures, standards, tools and technical requirements to the project or Business Unit context
• Ability to advise project and client teams on the management of their particular risks
• Ability to oversee the risk management programs of concurrent multiple projects
• Ability to manage competing priorities effectively, to be resourceful and to use time as a resource - routine requirement to work to deadlines imposed by client which might require completion of unplanned risk management activities in a short time frame
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with internal and external clients; establish trust, credibility and respect
• Skilled in the production of reports and presentations
• Ability to travel to other Hatch offices or project sites as required, sometimes extensively and on a relatively short notice

We are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected status. If you have any special needs requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.