Senior Risk Advisor

About Us

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth Office - Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people. Ad hoc site travel as required.

Roster:  Monday to Friday

As a key member of the Global Project Services and Controls team, this role leads the provision of risk management support and leadership across the full project lifecycle. The position is responsible for proactively supporting decision-making through coaching, facilitation, and guidance to project teams in the development and implementation of Group and Project Risk Management frameworks. It ensures business and project integration aligns with project development deliverables, risk management processes, project phases, and gating requirements, while maintaining compliance across the Compliance Governance and Risk (CGR) platform. The role is also accountable for the assurance and integrity of all project and monthly risk reporting and serves as the primary point of contact for risk and assurance matters across project teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, champion and provide guidance on the Project Risk Management Standard amongst Project team
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Project Risk Management Standard in accordance with Project and Corporate requirements
• Work with a portfolio of projects, project teams and risk champions to ensure risk registers capture key study/execution risks and corresponding controls and treatment actions
• Ensure regular scheduled risk review activities to proactively meet the Project’s deliverables to support project phase, gate and governance requirements, and promote project team ownership and accountability for risk
• Ensure regular scheduled risk activities reviews to proactively meet Project’s risk reporting deliverables and ensure risks/ risk summaries are represented at relevant meetings
• Monitor and report to Projects and other stakeholders on the health and status of the Risk Management process by risk, control and action owners, including participate in Project Development Leadership meetings as and when required
• Proactively support the project portfolio so that material risks are identified, escalated and addressed early
• Provide assurance and executive summaries as per regular reporting requirements
• Participate in supporting risk analysis for decision making, including Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis (CSRA) and quality risk analysis, as required and relevant
• Provide support to enable the risk platform being maintained, compliant and accurate to support reporting requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree qualification or equivalent risk management exposure in a project discipline. Risk related certifications would be advantageous
• Demonstrated prior experience in a similar role preferably in the resources and renewable energy
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience of supporting large capital projects in project risk roles, preferably in the resources and renewable energy sector and involved in complex construction and engineering delivery
• Able to adapt to multidisciplinary requirements, communicate with various stakeholders across an international business operating continuously in all time zones
• Strong commercial, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, gained through successful project delivery
• Demonstrated high level of knowledge and practical experience regarding successfully delivering strategic risk
• Demonstrated experience in providing high levels of assurance and governance  
• Must enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, collaborating with other like-minded team members and adjacent projects
• Risk quantification and modelling experience would be advantageous
• Strong team skills and willingness to travel for short and long periods.

Our Commitment

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.