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Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula: Approach each client engagement as a  partnership , create an environment that attracts the  most talented professionals  and allows them to flourish, and regulate  growth  to maintain  excellence  in our service standards. If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities. We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Risk Manager to lead risk management activities for a large-scale data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This client-facing role requires strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating project risks throughout the full project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of construction risk management, project controls, schedule and cost risk analysis, and risk reporting within complex construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects. You will play a key role in supporting project leadership, technical teams, and client stakeholders by maintaining a proactive risk management framework, ensuring risks are properly captured, analyzed, escalated, and managed in alignment with project objectives. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices. Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated. Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives. Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces. Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks. Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process. Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies. Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions. Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review. Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting. Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure. Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk-related input and documentation. Review contractor risk submissions, risk registers, mitigation plans, and progress updates to ensure consistency with overall project requirements. Promote a proactive risk culture across the project team by improving risk awareness, accountability, and timely communication. Contribute to the development of risk management procedures, temp