Risk Management Specialist

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Energy
The Role
Supports project risk and opportunity management throughout tendering, handover, and execution. Facilitates stakeholder reviews, performs quantitative risk analysis, maintains risk registers, manages contingency data, prepares dashboards and reports, and supports risk management tools and process improvements. The role collaborates across project disciplines, partners, and clients while identifying trends and providing insights for project decision-making.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are currently exploring potential candidates for an upcoming role at McDermott. While this position is not yet open for active recruitment, we want to connect with talented individuals who may be interested in future projects with us. If you are passionate about building energy's future and want to be considered when this role becomes available, we encourage you to submit your details.

Job Overview:

The Risk Management Specialist applies their knowledge of risk and opportunity management principles and, with a moderate level of guidance from colleagues and leadership, supports a range of project risk management activities. They are responsible for analyzing practical solutions using established processes and procedures while developing knowledge of the Company, its processes, and customers. The Risk Management Specialist understands key business drivers and applies technical judgment, experience, and established methodologies to support effective project risk and opportunity management.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Carry out Project Risk & Opportunity Management (PROM) activities for projects during the tendering, handover, and execution phases.
  • Engage with project discipline teams to facilitate the risk management process and ensure effective stakeholder participation.
  • Participate in project risk review meetings with project teams, JV/consortium partners, and clients as required.
  • Perform quantitative risk analysis and support project contingency management activities.
  • Maintain project risk and opportunity registers, ensuring risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, ownership, and status updates remain current throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Assist in the identification, assessment, analysis, and monitoring of project risks and opportunities.
  • Prepare and deliver updates for project risk reports, dashboards, and business line risk and opportunity reporting requirements.
  • Collect, organize, validate, and maintain project risk management data and associated project information.
  • Support the maintenance, administration, and continuous development of McDermott's project risk and opportunity management tools and processes.
  • Collaborate with project teams to promote effective risk management practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
     
Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of technical training and experience.
  • 3-6 years of experience supporting project risk management, project controls, engineering, construction, or EPC project execution activities.
  • Strong understanding of project risk and opportunity management principles, processes, and best practices.
  • Previous exposure to the energy, oil & gas, chemicals, or EPC industry is preferred.
  • Excellent analytical and data management skills with proficiency in digital tools, databases, Microsoft Office applications, and Power BI.
  • Previous exposure to quantitative risk analysis techniques and methodologies is preferred.
  • Experience working with project risk management systems, databases, or related software tools is preferred.
  • Ability to analyze data, identify trends, correlations, and provide meaningful project insights to support decision-making.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across project disciplines and proactively engage with stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented, and capable of working across multiple time zones and project environments.
  • Affiliate or Associate membership in a relevant professional institution is preferred.

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent technical training and experience.
  • 3–6 years of experience supporting project risk management, project controls, engineering, construction, or EPC project execution activities.
  • Strong understanding of project risk and opportunity management principles, processes, and best practices.
  • Previous exposure to the energy, oil and gas, chemicals, or EPC industry.
  • Excellent analytical and data management skills with proficiency in digital tools, databases, Microsoft Office applications, and Power BI.
  • Previous exposure to quantitative risk analysis techniques and methodologies.
  • Experience working with project risk management systems, databases, or related software tools.
  • Ability to analyze data, identify trends and correlations, and provide project insights for decision-making.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities with attention to detail.
  • Ability to collaborate across project disciplines and proactively engage stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work across multiple time zones and project environments.
  • Affiliate or Associate membership in a relevant professional institution.

McDermott International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about McDermott International and has not been reviewed or approved by McDermott International.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. materials cite a minimum of 23 PTO days and 14 paid holidays, indicating a broad leave offering. Paid time off and holidays are positioned as a comparative strength within the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Company materials indicate paid parental leave, including 10 weeks paid maternity and four weeks paid family bonding. These provisions reinforce support for families during key life events.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Field and offshore roles often include overtime, per diems, and project allowances that can materially increase earnings. These extras are a notable component of total compensation in project-driven roles.

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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
26,626 Employees

What We Do

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach to design and build infrastructure solutions to responsibly transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. From concept to commissioning, our expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. It is called the “One McDermott Way.” Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott’s locally-focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 40,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.

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