Project Risk Coordinator

Tier 1 constructor
- 10 year program - Design, construction, maintenance and facility management services
- Major infrastructure projects in the western suburbs
- Sydney Olympic Park Location

**The **Opportunity**

Fantastic opportunity for a Risk Co-ordinator to be part of the West Region Delivery Team, working on critical infrastructure to deliver design, construction, maintenance and facility management services for the next ten (10) years across wastewater and recycled water systems extending from Sydney’s Inner West suburbs out to the Blue Mountains including the Western Sydney Growth Area and part of the North West Growth Centre.

Reporting to the Risk Manager, you will play a key role in class-leading project-level risk management in conjunction with key Project team members.

Risk management is about being proactive not reactive. It’s an ongoing, regular, control process. Ensuring risks are actively managed and resolved for the lowest cost to the project. I.e. where the cost of mitigation is lower than the value of the risk.

Risk management ensures control of a project. Project cost efficiencies are achieved my managing risk, where the project risk context is reviewed regularly, risks identified, assessed, and their impact and probability of occurrence understood, with mitigation plans established and followed-up on. Until risks are mitigated, they need to be forecast. This:

- Enables us to identify projects that may be in trouble
- Fewer surprises on projects
- Enables better assessment of risks - i.e. schedule risks can be reviewed in the context of the p6 programme and impact on critical path and completion dates understood.
- Better communication of risks - project sponsors and key stakeholders are on top of information as it unfolds - good or bad. So budgets rely less on guesswork....
- Risks are actively managed and mitigated - individual team members are assigned ownership of a risk and are responsible for driving it’s mitigation

**Key / Typical Responsibilities**
- Ensuring Risk, Opportunity and Issue management is best in practice across the programme
- Support with risk management across the business and continuing to embed risk management into our culture and business
- Support with compliance management across the business
- Become a trusted partner for risk and compliance management
- Ensure project delivery compliance with the Risk Management Plan and Risk Standards / Procedures, ensuring a consistent approach across the programme
- Agree and disseminate a WRDT Risk & Opportunities Register template.
- Ensure personnel within the project team responsible for risk management are identified and their roles clear, with risk owners and mitigation owners are aware of their actions and duties
- Utilising risk identification and analysis techniques, ensure the initial project risk register is complete and accurate, all risks have been identified, mitigation plans developed, and dates, durations and costs established
- After acceptance of the initial project risk register and establishment of the risk budget for the project, ensuring project risk review workshops are held monthly (as a minimum), key contributors (including schedulers) are invited, identifying new risks, assessing existing risks, reviewing progress of mitigation plans, holding owners to account, and establishing new mitigation plans where required
- Ensure all R&O registers are all submitted / uploaded on a monthly basis.
- Assist with the production of any required Risk Management Reports, highlighting the status of risks across the programme, levels of compliance, frequency of review etc. to drive awareness / culture and enable informed decisions.
- Ensure the P6 project performance baseline is aligned (time and cost) with the initial project risk register accepted by the client during award of the project, and thereafter, the project P6 schedule mirrors the current risk profile of the project in terms of the current, live risks, and their schedule and cost impacts, and that these risks are correctly logic linked to the affected activities.
- Ensure the FFC and ETC for the project Risk work package reflects the current risk register, inclusive of projected risk costs as well as the cost for risk mitigation plans.

**Skills and Qualifications**
- Significant experience controlling Risks, Opportunities and Issues on complex, high value projects.
- Degree qualified in a Project Controls or Risk relevant discipline
- Demonstrable risk analysis experience
- Demonstrable scheduling experience or awareness, and understanding of Primavera P6
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience in Project Management and Project Controls
- Goal orientation balancing task, team and individual needs to achieve the right outcomes
- Excellent interpersonal skills (communication, motivation, persuasion).
- Drive, enthusiasm, initiative and a willingness to develop
- Methodical and organised
- Good facilitator/mediator able to resolve conflict.