Experienced Risk Manager (f/m/d) Project & Portfolio Risk Management

A Snapshot of Your Day 

As a Senior Risk Manager, you start the day reviewing the latest project risk dashboards and speaking with project managers to anticipate potential challenges before they arise. You facilitate a risk and opportunity workshop for a high-impact energy project, translating insights into concrete actions integrated into schedules and budgets. Throughout the day, you collaborate across engineering, commercial, and portfolio teams to ensure risks are transparently communicated and response strategies are executed. Your work directly improves project profitability, strengthens resilience, and advances Siemens Energy’s mission to deliver sustainable, reliable energy solutions. You’ll be part of an open, solution-focused team culture that values proactive thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

How You’ll Make an Impact 

• Early and comprehensive identification of project risks and opportunities throughout the entire lifecycle, from tendering to completion
• Embedding of risk management into daily project governance processes, ensuring alignment of actions, responsibilities, and timelines
• Translation of risk insights into clear, owned response strategies and their integration into project schedules, budgets, and forecasts
• Consolidation of individual project risks at portfolio level to enable the detection of broader trends and systemic exposures for decision makers
• Maintenance of transparent, fact-based risk communication to management and stakeholders to ensure trust and clarity
• Development of organizational capability through workshops, coaching, and lessons-learned processes to increase overall risk maturity

What You Bring

• University degree in Industrial Engineering or a comparable field
• Proven experience in project and portfolio risk management, ideally within complex, large‑scale energy or infrastructure environments
• Strong capability in identifying, assessing, and managing risks and opportunities with a proactive, value‑driven mindset
• Excellent communication skills enabling clear conveyance of risk insights and effective influence across all stakeholder levels
• Competence in integrating risk management into schedules, budgets, and governance routines, with strong analytical ability to recognize patterns and trends at portfolio level to support informed decision‑making
• A collaborative working approach and willingness to contribute to capability building within diverse, cross-functional teams as well as fluent English skills; German language skills are an advantage

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet. 

Who is Siemens Energy? 

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.      

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