Risk Engineer

, India

Job Family Group:

Projects

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 24, 2025

Business unit:

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What’s the role

As a Risk Engineer, you will be establishing and maintaining a risk management system, training users, and conducting regular reviews. Your key tasks include organizing risk workshops, updating the Opportunity/Risk Register, supporting cost and schedule risk analysis, and developing reports for management. Additionally, maintaining risk registers, presenting status to leadership, and interpreting analysis outputs are ongoing responsibilities.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible in establishing and maintaining the risk management system.

• 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.

• Organize, frame, and facilitate risk workshops - Meeting Facilitation.

• Engage with multiple project and stakeholder personnel to gather data 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 and Secure buy-in from team members.

• Support / Assist Probabilistic Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis –

• Build simplified project schedule model, map the Technical, Economic, Commercial, Organizational and Political (TECOP) parameters and Opportunity/Risk Register entries to the model elements, and quantify these impacts into duration/ cost ranges. 

• Assess and establish appropriate probability distributions for each element.  Analyze and iterate the model output and develop overview presentation material to explain the results and key schedule risk areas.

• Develop overview reports of risk/opportunity status for management. implement and manage risk management plans utilizing Shell’s risk management standards.

• Sound understanding of and ability to apply both qualitative and quantitative Risk Management theories, tools, and techniques.

• Maintain and manage risk registers. Present risk management status to Project Leadership Team & generate monthly risk management reports.

• Interface with project team members to discuss and challenge risk status and close out references.

• Interpret and explain Cost Schedule & Risk Analysis output to Project Leadership and Review teams.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/Technologist Degree and/or Certification as a Risk Professional or equivalent experience.

• At least 2 years’ experience in Risk engineering/Risk Management; preferably in a refinery or petrochemical industry.

• Experience in Risk engineer / Risk Management positions for portfolio capital projects. 

• Works effectively in a Team environment and build consensus & Customer focus. 

• Working knowledge of a broad range of Project Controls systems, tools, and practices specifically in Oil & Gas industry. 

• Strong leadership, communication, report-writing, and presentation skills. 

• Skill in PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel, Risk Management Tool, Power BI etc.

• Background in Oil and Gas maintenance and operations is an advantage. 

• Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills 

• Preferred experience in following tools: EasyRisk , PowerBI 

• Preferred experience in refinery or petrochemicals plant turnarounds. 

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

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An Inclusive & Progressive Place to Work 

• To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential.

• We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.

• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

• We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar

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