Risk Manager

Job No: 495663

Work type:Full Time

Location:Melbourne

Categories:Construction Management

Advertised:28 Feb 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

Applications close:28 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

**About BMD**

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business. As the largest privately owned civil contractor in Australia, BMD is at the forefront of excellence and its footprint expands globally to the Philippines and United Kingdom. With a commitment to long-term relationships and collaborative contracting setting us apart and through a team of over 2000 skilled professionals, BMD specialises in transformative infrastructure across diverse sectors.

**Benefits**

We offer a rewarding long-term career, opportunities to develop, and a culture that values your contribution. BMD recognises that we are strengthened by diversity and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer, providing a flexible and inclusive workplace that rewards excellence and promotes a healthy work-life balance. We offer unique benefits which includes specialised learning and development programs, a good health and wellbeing program, paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers and flexible work, novated leasing and discounts with hundreds of retailers.

**The Role**:
We are looking for a Risk Manager to join our high performing project team, based on our site office of a major infrastructure project. You will establish and manage the project risk processes, planning and monitoring performance to deliver on time and on budget in accordance with the project's procedures and processes over the full project lifecycle. Drawing on your ability to influence across all levels, you will proactively identify and analyse risks and opportunities with the team, with tasks including:

- Develop and implement risk strategies and audits / reviews for the project.
- Ensure monitoring and reporting of Project Controls processes are successfully set-up on the project.
- Provide effective, efficient and professional planning resources and support to the project including implementing standard processes and reports.
- Interface with project team, partners, clients, stakeholders, consultants, designers, vendors, subcontractors for management of the planning function in accordance with established procedures.
- Proactively lead a planning and controls culture across the project based on best practice and with a focus on risk management, cost control and HSE.
- Early identification and communication of issues and opportunities to the project.
- Provide training and provide guidance to subordinates and colleagues in the use of risk systems, project monitoring & controls and the interpretation of data and information generated.
- Implement project risk monitoring systems, particularly focussing on time, cost, resources & quality. Ensure that reports generated across project(s) provide maximum certainty for project.
- Lead Project & Operations Managers in report interpretation, analysis of project performance, forward planning and development of corrective actions to maximise project delivery outcomes.

**Who we're looking for**:

- Tertiary degree, preferably in one of the following disciplines - Commercial, Engineering, Construction or Project Management, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in Construction, Engineering, Planning and Project Controls.
- Experience in the planning process and the use of risk management.
- Use of planning software & tools such as Primavera Project Planning, Time Chainage Charts, Schedule Risk Analysis, Program Forensic Analysis, Earned Value and Cash Flow Analysis.
- Multi-disciplined project planning experience.
- Leadership and management of risk, planning and cost teams.
- Experience in managing planning of major projects and tenders.
- Ability to demonstrate commercial acumen in decision making.

**No agency submissions will be accepted.