Senior Risk Engineer

Are you an experienced risk engineer with passion for civil and infrastructure projects with knowledge of the maritime industry? Are you interested in advancing your career in a dynamic company with projects across the globe? Then read on! Are you interested in advancing your career in risk management in a dynamic, fast-growing and international company with projects across the globe? Are you an experienced risk engineer with passion for large and complex projects within the offshore wind industry? Then read on!

THE POSITION 

In your role as Risk Engineer you assist the Offshore Wind business unit with the controlled execution of its projects in hand. Your daily work entails the proactive identification of tender threats and opportunities, identifying strategies to effectively treat threats and to realize opportunities that arise within the operating environment. You will be responsible for the implementation of the Van Oord risk methodology, best practices and tools within the project environment. You will be required to facilitate the risk process including the facilitating of various risk workshops and strategic risk discussions internally and with clients/joint venture partners where necessary.

YOUR IMPACT  

You are eager to connect the different disciplines of the project efficiently. Through your continuous engagement with project team members, joint venture partners where necessary, you will develop and maintain a high quality risk profile and ensure that identified actions are carried out by the designated owners. You are responsible for: 

• Analyse and report on outcomes of risk engagements. You will be providing risk management services to multiple projects running concurrently;
• Continuous update, review the communication of risk exposures (occurrences and trends) on projects;
• Maintaining risk data of the projects and produce dashboards and forecasts;
• Report important risk data for multiple stakeholders, internally and externally;
• Provide risk input for new events or changes to the projects (e.g. design changes).

Your workplace

So, who will you work together with? You will work within the Risk Management team, which is part of our Plan and Control department. The risk team has +/- 15 passionate colleagues working in different business units and specialisms.

Everything we do within our department, has a strong focus on balancing investments and risks. The last year we’ve worked hard on the fundament of (corporate) risk management. This is your chance to contribute as specialist to the further development and standardisation of our risk department! We believe in combining knowledge and expertise to help get the best out of each other. Next to your own team, you will work closely together with multiple (engineering) disciplines, project management, (staff) departments and business units to contribute to the improvement of our works.

ABOUT YOU 

You are passionate about the discipline risk, connecting people and making sure that we all think and act across the boundaries of individual disciplines is what makes you tick. Next to that:

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience as a risk engineer for big projects;
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree;
• Excellent command of the English language, spoken and written;
• Good working understanding of ISO 31000 is a plus;
• You are fulltime available (minimal 32 hours) and willing to travel regularly to our office in Gorinchem. In the near future you are also flexible to visit our Rotterdam office and projects. 

WE OFFER YOU 

We offer you a position in which you will have an important contribution to our mission 'building a better world for future generations'. In addition, we offer you:

• a salary that matches your responsibilities and experience;
• Additional allowances for working on board / on project locations abroad;
• Travel allowance (€0.31 per km) and home office allowance (€2,15 per day);
• 32 leave days per year;
• Variable bonus;
• Pension scheme;
• Collective health insurance (optional);
• Flexible working from home policy, 2 days a week when working on a full-time basis;
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities, including a wide range of online courses via Goodhabitz;
• You can join communities, like Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women and the Van Oord staff association;
• We organise several (sport) events, e.g. winter sport, weekend of sailing, cycling and a motorcycle tour.

Interested? Apply via the application form below. Do you have any questions? Please contact Kevin Bruining.
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