Fortis Engineering is a solutions-driven company serving Africa’s energy, oil and gas and mining industries with expertise in civil construction, asset integrity, maintenance, procurement, fabrication, installations, and O&M — delivered with precision, resilience, and safety.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Risk & MoC Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Where You Fit in

• This position reports directly to Team Lead Planning. This role is accountable for: Deliver and maintain standard, consistent, and realistic risk management process as a framework to identify, evaluate, plan responses, and monitor the effectiveness of these responses for all potential opportunities or threats to the project objective. Perform probabilistic cost and schedule risk analyses.

What is the Role

Dimension:

• Opportunities/Projects could comprise of block bidding, deal, exploration, greenfield, brownfield, decommissioning projects from Identify, Assess, Select, Define, Execute to Decommissioning phases.
• Member of Shell Risk Management Network. Collaborate with Shell Global Project Services for standardization, tools calibration, data collection, benchmarking, continuous improvement, and Regional/Global Risk Management support.
• Key stakeholders: Project Team, Discipline Engineering, Portfolio Managers, Operations & Commissioning, Wells, Development, Contracts & Procurement, Finance, HR, Commercial, Legal, HSSE, Assets, Decommissioning, Technical Planning, Group Project Services, Vendors, Contractors, NUIMS, NUPRC and Co-Venturers.
• Ensure all internal and external stakeholders are aligned with key opportunity/project strategies and anticipated results. The Project Services (PS) Team has multiple tasks with different project team composition. It is imperative that the support effort is seen as highly credible by PS Team members and stakeholders.
• The incumbent needs the experience, behaviors, and skills to engage with multiple stakeholders and align on what is needed for successful outcomes.
• Key challenges: Driving collaboration and work prioritization between various functions to ensure end-to-end alignment within short turnaround time. Deep understanding of risk analysis for various development types. Complexity is high in this matrix organization.

Responsibilities

Project Risk Management:

• Establish, create, and maintain a risk management system and plan for material, flagship, brownfield, and decommissioning projects.
• Sound understanding of and ability to apply qualitative, quantitative, and non-technical risk (NTR) Risk Management theories, tools, and techniques.
• Identify appropriate responsible parties for risk ownerships and allocate Register entries. Structure and populate the risk management tool, enable user training, and establish/implement the process for regular status reviews.
• Implement and manage risk management plans utilizing Company's risk management standards.
• Organize, frame, and facilitate risk and NTR workshops - Meeting Facilitation.
• Engage with multiple project and stakeholder personnel to gather data in order to develop/refresh the Opportunity/Risk Register.
• Challenge and encourage alternate views to fully explore potential scenario outcomes. Stimulate identification of mitigating actions and qualitative impact and likelihood assessments.
• Present risk management status to Project Leadership Team & generate monthly risk management reports. Manage Portfolio Projects of Opportunity/Risk registers.
• Present risk management status to Project Leadership Team & generate monthly risk management reports. Manage Portfolio Projects of Opportunity/Risk registers.
• Perform Probabilistic Cost & Schedule Risk Analyses (CSRA).
• Build simplified project schedule models, map the Technical, Economic, Commercial, Organizational and Political parameters and Opportunity/ Risk Register entries to the model elements, and quantify these impacts into duration/cost ranges.
• Analyze and iterate the model output and develop overview presentation material to explain the results and key cost & schedule risk areas. Interpret and explain CSRA output to Project Leadership and Review teams.
• Capture actual data on identified risks and lessons learnt. Prepare Project to Asset Risk Management Transition Plan. Establish process to store Risk Management in a consistent, secure location/Participate in Peer Reviews, Audits and Project Assurances.

Management of Change (MoC):

• Support activities to ensure compliance to MoC work process requirements including early identification, recording, documentation, screening, review, quantification, approval and reporting of a change.
• Record changes to the project's approved basis (Scope, Budget, Schedule) for historical, accountability and auditing purposes.
• Provide early warning of changes and facilitate timely decisions regarding potential changes.
• Support Cost Forecasting and Estimate at Completion (EAC)/ensure MoC practitioners are competent to perform their MoC roles.

What We Need From You

• Qualification: Engineering Degree or external certification as Certified Risk Management Professional (e.g., PMI-RMP).
• Extensive number of years in oil & gas industry (~12+ years).
• Substantial number of years in Upstream Projects (~8 years): Have significant experience in a role as a Risk professional with direct responsibility for the
• Risk and MoC for post-Execute projects, and proven experience in pre- Execute projects.
• Demonstrated good leadership capability. Proven interpersonal and relationships skills in complex environments with ability to collaborate with personnel of diverse backgrounds.
• Core competencies - possess skill level understanding of Risk Management concepts and practices. Possess skill level understanding of Management of Change concepts and practices.
• Work Management Tools - possess skill level understanding & application of the Risk tools e.g., Qurie, Corestream, Primavera Risk Analysis (Pertmaster) and @Risk. Demonstrate thorough knowledge of local contracts & procurement requirements.
• Demonstrated skill level in facilitating reviews/workshops e.g., Quantitative Risk Management, Qualitative Risk Management, Non-Technical Risk Workshop, and Management of Change Review.

Application Closing Date

3rd October, 2025.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: admin@fortisengineering.net using thr Job Title as the subject of the mail.