Risk and Change Management Specialist
CR/079320
Posted: 29/09/2025
- TBA
- Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- Contract
We are seeking a highly skilled Risk and Change Management Specialist to join one of our major global energy clients in the Edmonton, AB area on a long contract opportunity. This role will play a critical part in integrating qualitative risk assessment methodologies with structured change management practices, ensuring informed decision-making while enabling the successful adoption of business and operational changes.
As a bridge between project teams, leadership, and stakeholders, you will drive risk-informed strategies and guide change management initiatives that strengthen resilience across the organization.
Key Responsibilities include:
Risk Management
This is an opportunity to contribute to high-profile project(s) for a global energy leader, where your expertise in change management and risk analysis will directly influence business outcomes. You’ll be working alongside experienced professionals in a role that combines strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and operational execution.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
As a bridge between project teams, leadership, and stakeholders, you will drive risk-informed strategies and guide change management initiatives that strengthen resilience across the organization.
Key Responsibilities include:
Risk Management
- Lead qualitative risk assessments across strategic, operational, and project domains.
- Facilitate risk workshops, interviews, and brainstorming sessions to capture comprehensive perspectives.
- Conduct and lead integrated quantitative schedule and cost risk analyses (QRA/CSRA).
- Develop and maintain risk registers with clear articulation of causes, impacts, and responses.
- Assess interdependencies between risks, project interfaces, and organizational change initiatives.
- Integrate risk management into project lifecycles, ensuring alignment with governance, cost, and schedule.
- Deliver actionable insights and recommendations for treatment, mitigation, and contingency planning.
- Design and execute change management strategies supporting project delivery.
- Conduct change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, and readiness evaluations.
- Develop communication and training plans for adoption of new processes, technologies, and structures.
- Partner with leaders to embed change leadership behaviors and reduce resistance.
- Track and measure effectiveness of change initiatives using both feedback and performance metrics.
- Establish a risk-informed approach to change management, addressing barriers proactively.
- Translate risk insights into targeted change interventions and engagement strategies.
- Present risk-adjusted scenarios and change readiness insights to senior leadership.
- Foster a culture of resilience by embedding risk awareness and adaptability into business processes.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, Risk Management, or related discipline.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, PMI-RMP, or equivalent highly desirable.
- 10+ years of experience in project risk management, ideally within the energy and infrastructure sectors.
- Proficiency in tools such as Deltek Acumen Fuse (preferred) and other risk analysis software.
- Strong background in change management (change analysis) within large-scale, complex, multi-stakeholder projects (Oil & Gas preferred).
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to synthesize qualitative data into actionable strategies for leadership.
- Strong analytical mindset with flexibility to adapt in dynamic environments.
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada and based in the Edmonton, AB region.
- Valid driver’s license required.
This is an opportunity to contribute to high-profile project(s) for a global energy leader, where your expertise in change management and risk analysis will directly influence business outcomes. You’ll be working alongside experienced professionals in a role that combines strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and operational execution.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Dean Prystupa
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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