Risk Manager

• Design & Engineering

• Permanent Contract

• Mid-Senior Level

• Toronto

About Us

Are you ambitious and looking to make the right move in your career? Now is the perfect time to join Egis. Egis is experiencing substantial growth in North America, now made up of over 1,000 engineers, architects and planners across Canada and the USA. This strategic move underscores our commitment to investing in North America, propelling our expansion to new heights.

Our values showcase everything we believe in:

A Responsible Company - We care about people, and we care about our impact; acting responsibly wherever we work and whatever we do.

A People-First Company - This is an environment of mutual respect where every team member matters, no matter who they are.

A Creative Company - Creativity is in our DNA. This is the fuel that helps us tackle the major challenges of our time.

The more important question you likely have is: Are we the right company for you?

Joining Egis is an opportunity to make a valuable, positive impact on the world, while growing and developing as a person. Our culture is very collaborative, and we care about people and our impact. We take great pride in being responsible for our clients, for each other and for our planet and its people. You'll work and innovate in an environment where high standards and personal consideration go hand-in-hand.

Learn more about the exciting opportunity below where you'll be part of projects renowned for technical excellence, ambition and sustainability

About the Role

The Risk Manager is responsible for risk governance, oversight, and strategic risk management across multiple projects. This role ensures that risk management practices align with objectives, contractual obligations, and industry best practices. The Risk Manager leads risk governance efforts, audits risk processes, and ensures proactive mitigation strategies to maintain project execution in accordance with the strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and implement a comprehensive risk management strategy that aligns with project objectives, stakeholder expectations, and industry best practices.
• Ensure consistent risk management governance across the project lifecycle by overseeing risk assessments, ensuring compliance with risk policies.
• Collaborate with project teams, external authorities, and regulatory bodies to integrate risk management frameworks at the program level.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments, submissions align with project risk methodologies.
• Oversee risk workshops to identify, assess, and quantify risks affecting project timelines and budgets, ensuring alignment with the risk exposure framework.
• Perform data-driven research and analysis to support risk-based decision-making, ensuring risk quantification accurately reflects project financial and schedule uncertainties.
• Plan and conduct onsite evaluations of risk controls, ensuring effective mitigation and contingency measures.
• Engage with stakeholders to communicate risk-related information, ensuring risk discussions translate into actionable mitigation plans.
• Provide guidance on risk management principles, techniques, and best practices to internal teams and delivery partners, ensuring adherence to risk governance framework.
• Report on risk management issues to senior management and clients, identifying high-impact risks and proposing strategic mitigation strategies.
• Support the development of Requests for Proposals (RFPs), ensuring contractual risk requirements align with project control best practices.
• Conduct technical risk and security assessments for third-party service providers, internal projects, and technology implementations, ensuring compliance with client-driven policies.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance with risk-related industry standards and internal project controls, maintaining oversight over risk assessments.
• Manage risk controls for external and third-party approvals, ensuring government regulatory alignment and risk transparency.
• Develop and maintain project risk registers, integrating them into the broader project controls framework to ensure strategic risk visibility at the portfolio level.
• Facilitate lessons-learned sessions to capture, document, and apply risk insights, ensuring continuous improvement in risk governance.

What do we need from you

• 15+ years of experience in major infrastructure, transportation, mass transit, with a focus on risk governance and strategic oversight.
• Expert in leveraging simulation techniques to model uncertainty, quantify potential project risks, and enhance decision-making in cost and schedule risk assessments.
• Strong understanding of construction schedules and project controls, ensuring Line Managers and Contractor risk models accurately represent time, cost, and uncertainty factors.
• Proficient in applying Monte Carlo simulations to model and predict the probability of different outcomes in risk scenarios. Experienced in using Monte Carlo methods to quantify risk, assess project uncertainties, and evaluate the potential impact on financial and operational objectives.
• Proficiency in risk analysis tools, ensuring comprehensive risk quantification and mitigation strategies.
• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments, including the application of simulation techniques.
• Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making abilities, ensuring risk-related discussions drive proactive solutions.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks.

What's in it for you?

Egis Canada is an equal opportunities employer offering a competitive salary and benefits to those with the skills suited to the needs of our clients.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

This role is eligible for a referral bonus in line with the Referral Program. If you have been referred, please provide the name of the employee who has referred you at the time of your application.

At Egis, we embrace innovation to tackle challenges and utilize AI in our recruitment process under stringent ethics and compliance policies and in alignment with our values of being a Responsible Company, a People First Company and a Creative Company. Committed to diversity, growth and collaboration, we may leverage AI to support the recruitment process.