Job description

Wood is seeking a Specialist - Risk Management Engineer to support ADNOC Offshore Central Engineering Division in Abu Dhabi. The role is accountable for developing, planning, and managing comprehensive project risk management frameworks across oil and gas projects, ensuring risk mitigation strategies are embedded throughout the project lifecycle to safeguard timelines, budgets, safety, and compliance. Responsibilities include preparing and maintaining risk management plans, leading risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, facilitating risk workshops, ensuring compliance with ADNOC Group Risk Management Standards, and integrating risk considerations across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, estimating, scheduling, and cost accounting. The Specialist will manage risk registers, align stakeholders on risk tolerance, track treatment actions, conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses (including Monte Carlo simulations), and support estimating and finance teams in contingency forecasting. The position requires experience with risk analysis tools (SAFRAN, Deltek Acumen, Primavera Risk Analysis, @RISK) and involves liaising with contractors, vendors, and multiple stakeholders to ensure consistent risk management practices. Key duties include reporting on risk status and trends, facilitating risk reviews, supporting commercial contract development from a risk perspective, providing governance input, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives in enterprise risk management. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or risk-related fields, at least 10 years’ experience in project risk management within oil and gas, and advanced quantitative and analytical skills. Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and numerical abilities are essential. A Master’s degree or certifications such as PMI-RMP, Prince2, or ISO 31000 are preferred.