Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis have now opened an expression of interest for a Risk Manager / Senior Risk Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the successful delivery of major infrastructure programmes across Australia. Working in close partnership with clients and project teams across sectors, you will provide embedded and strategic risk management expertise, leading risk identification, assessment, and quantitative analysis to support informed decision‑making. You will integrate risk with planning, cost, and commercial functions, apply industry‑leading tools and standards, and help embed a strong risk culture across complex, multi‑disciplinary environments. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to high‑impact projects while being part of Arcadis’ growing, globally connected Risk Management practice.
Role accountabilities:
- Deliver embedded and strategic risk management services across major infrastructure programmes and projects.
- Lead risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring activities across the project lifecycle.
- Facilitate collaborative risk and interface workshops with clients, contractors, and subject matter experts.
- Develop, implement, and maintain project and programme risk management plans aligned with ISO 31000.
- Integrate risk management with planning, cost, commercial, and project controls functions.
- Undertake and lead Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA) for cost and schedule.
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to support contingency setting and strategic decision-making.
- Analyse and interpret QRA outputs to identify trends, emerging risks, and areas of material exposure.
- Produce high-quality risk dashboards, reports, and presentations for senior and executive stakeholders.
- Coach and support teams and clients to build risk capability and foster a strong risk culture.
Qualification & Experience:
- 3+ years’ experience in risk management (5+ years for Senior Risk Manager roles).
- Experience working on major infrastructure programmes or within a PMO environment.
- Strong knowledge of risk management principles, standards, and frameworks, including ISO 31000.
- Hands-on experience delivering Quantitative Risk Analysis using tools such as @Risk, Safran, or Primavera Risk Analysis.
- Experience with enterprise or project risk systems such as Active Risk Manager, Cura, Predict!, or Xactium.
- Strong analytical capability with high attention to detail and data integrity.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
- A proactive, collaborative, and consulting-oriented mindset.
Desirable Experience & Qualifications
- Professional certifications such as APM Risk, IRM, PMP, or PRINCE2.
- Membership of a recognised professional risk management body (e.g. RMIA, IRM, PRMIA, GARP).
- Experience across multiple infrastructure sectors.
- Familiarity with planning tools such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
- Experience using data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Why Arcadis?
- Be part of a globally connected, rapidly growing Risk Management practice.
- Work on some of Australia’s most complex and high-impact infrastructure programmes.
- Access career development opportunities within a global professional services organisation.
- Contribute to sustainable outcomes through world-class risk management.
Additional Information
- You must have current working rights in Australia. Visa sponsorship is not available for these roles.
- Roles may require flexibility to work across client offices and project sites.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skill-based approach, where you can hardness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Veterans and spouses are invited to apply.
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