Risk Management Specialist

Overview:
**Your Opportunity**:
Are you someone with strong leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a thoughtful leader, a trusted advisor and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

We offer flexible work hours to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

This position is available at any of our offices across Canada.

**Responsibilities**:
**What Your Day Will Look Like**:

- Collaborate with business units to analyze potential projects and contracts, identifying potential risks and opportunities.
- Review contracts and related documents to identify potential risks and flag any areas of concern, collaborating with the legal team on complex legal matters.
- Provide guidance and support to business unit teams during contract negotiations.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, including insurance coverage, project management practices, and contingency plans.
- Conduct training sessions and workshops to enhance the risk assessment and negotiation skills of business unit teams.

Qualifications:
**What you will need to succeed**:

- Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a solid understanding of basic contract principles and legal terminology.
- Track record of success in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in a fast-paced business environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented individual with a strong understanding of risk management principles and practices.

**Experience**:

- 5+ years of experience in risk management, preferably in a consulting environment.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field.
- Experienced working with business class directors, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts.

**Why choose Dillon**

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our **core values**:

- Reliability: words that result in actions build trust;
- Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
- Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
- Creativity: discover new possibilities;
- Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
- Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences

In addition, we offer:

- ** Employee share purchase plan**- Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all full-time regular employees
- ** A competitive compensation package**- Comprehensive health benefits
- Generous retirement savings plan
- Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
- ** Flexible work hours and remote working options**- Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and remote work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
- ** Learning and Development opportunities**- As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization
- We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities
- ** Focus on Innovation**- The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities
- ** Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)**- A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees
- ** Wellness Subsidy**- Our employees can take advantage of wellness subsidy that c