- Lead enterprise risk on major infrastructure program
- Multi-billion-dollar, long-term transport & trade expansion
- Strong culture, great team, genuine work/life balance
Join a landmark client-side infrastructure program delivering one of Australia’s most significant long-term transport and trade gateway expansions. This is an opportunity to play a leading role in shaping, embedding and maturing risk management across a multibillion-dollar, decade-long program spanning major marine, civil, and port infrastructure works.
You’ll play a critical role in ensuring risks are proactively identified, assessed, managed, and clearly communicated to support confident, data-driven decision-making across a complex, multi-workstream delivery environment.
About the role:
As Senior Risk Manager, you will lead and coordinate risk management across a large infrastructure program as part of the Project Controls team, working closely with Project Managers and broader delivery teams. You will establish a consistent and forward‑looking approach to identifying, assessing, and managing risks and opportunities across the project life-cycle.
The role combines hands‑on engagement with projects and a program‑wide perspective. You will support PMs to apply sound risk practices while providing consolidated risk insights that inform priorities, manage exposure, and support timely, well‑informed decision‑making. Through this work, you will embed strong risk discipline across the program, improve forecast reliability, and contribute directly to strategic and delivery decisions at a program level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning across multiple projects and delivery partners
- Develop and maintain program-wide risk management frameworks, plans, and governance-aligned processes
- Manage a comprehensive risk register covering strategic, delivery, commercial, environmental, and operational risks
- Integrate risk management with project controls including cost forecasting, scheduling, and contingency planning
- Apply quantitative risk analysis (including Monte Carlo simulation to support cost and schedule confidence
- Deliver high-quality risk reporting, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership and governance forums
About You
You are an experienced risk professional with strong exposure to complex infrastructure or capital works programs. You combine deep technical expertise in risk management with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and embed effective governance in fast-paced delivery environments.
Ideally, you will bring:
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering, project management, construction management, or risk management
- Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure or capital works programs
- Strong expertise in project and enterprise risk management frameworks
- Experience facilitating risk workshops and managing complex risk registers
- Exposure to quantitative risk analysis (QRA), including Monte Carlo simulation
- Strong understanding of cost, schedule, and project controls integration
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including executive-level reporting
- Ability to work autonomously while contributing effectively within a collaborative program environment
- Be part of a landmark, long-term infrastructure program with significant national impact
- Play a key role in shaping enterprise-level risk maturity across a complex delivery environment
- Work closely with senior leaders and industry specialists across multiple disciplines
- Join a highly collaborative client-side environment with strong governance and structured delivery frameworks
If you are looking to step into a Senior Risk Leadership role where your expertise directly influences major infrastructure outcomes, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a lasting impact. Apply now, or contact Wayne Eaton on 0422 003 895 or Daniel Dent on 0414 605 978 for a confidential discussion.