Risk Manager

Schiphol connects your world. With the best people, we make travel safe and responsible. You contribute to this with your unique talents, such as the way you strive to achieve challenging goals and success, and approach problems as a challenge and quickly find a good solution for them. In any case, for this position you have:

• at least a higher professional education (HBO) level of working and thinking.
• at least 7 years of work experience, of which at least 3 years is full-time experience as a Risk Manager on medium-sized complex projects in sectors such as construction/infra/civil engineering.
• expertise in the field of risk management, including the associated tools and techniques, and the adaptive capacity to apply new developments in the field - such as AI.
• basic knowledge and experience with other process control disciplines (such as planning, issue, quality, and contract management) as well as working in a structured project management environment such as Prince2 (or similar).
• the following competencies that are distinguishing to be successful in this role: involvement, curiosity, a connecting mindset, enthusiasm, communication skills, result-orientation, ownership, and persuasiveness.
• the ability to analyze project information and translate it into management information and actionable perspectives for the Project Manager and Steering Group, and additionally being able to act as their sparring partner.

• € 5703 to 7912 gross per month (scale 13).
• Classification takes place on the basis of experience and competencies.
• A 13th month.
• The possibility to work 4 x 9 hours with a 36-hour work week.
• Possibility for a lease bike.
• An NS-Business Card that fully reimburses public transport travel to and from work.

These are just a few of our employment conditions that belong to this position (based on a 36-hour work week). Schiphol has even more to offer you. For the complete overview of all employment conditions, go to Employment Conditions - Working at Schiphol.

• As a Risk Manager, you will work on large and complex engineering projects in the dynamic and challenging environment of Schiphol Airport.
• No two projects are the same: you adapt to different issues, interests, and complexities, always within the unique context of an airport that operates 24/7.
• With your commitment and expertise, you will professionalize risk management within Infrastructure and help projects achieve their objectives in a predictable, effective, and efficient manner.

As a Risk Manager, you are an indispensable link in the successful realization of projects. In this way, you connect the Netherlands to the rest of the world. How you ensure this? That is up to you. We rely on the way you work from a sense of calm, order, and discipline. You will apply your talents to:

• thoroughly understanding the complex project context of the large Schiphol projects. Based on that context, translating our standard project/risk management into custom solutions as part of total integrated project control, and subsequently successfully executing this risk management approach;
• stimulating a risk-aware culture within the projects in which opportunities and threats are discussed openly, and ownership is taken for control;
• actively contributing to the department's risk management by, among other things, identifying wishes or improvements for the risk management discipline and translating them into policy, and shaping and executing the implementation of this within frameworks. Additionally, occasionally providing training and collaborating with staff and operational departments in the field of risk;
• depending on your knowledge, experience, and your personal interests and ambition, you will be deployed to one or more specific engineering projects primarily at Schiphol Airport and potentially Lelystad or Rotterdam The Hague Airport.