Interested in a career that matters?

Interested in a career that matters?
Ready to play a key role in keeping a major greenfield project ahead of risk?
As Risk Controller, you will be embedded in the project controls team, working closely with the Project Manager and stakeholders across the project. You will help create a clear and current view of project risk, quantify exposure and ensure that mitigation actions are owned and followed through.
You will collaborate across work packages and disciplines, providing the early insight needed to support informed project decisions.
The Role & Your Impact
In this role, you will act as the project's early-warning resource for risk. You will combine quantitative risk analysis with strong stakeholder facilitation, helping the project team understand exposure, establish effective mitigation and escalate emerging risks at the right time.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Owning the programme risk register across project packages and disciplines.
- Facilitating risk identification workshops and maintaining clear risk scoring and ownership.
- Performing quantitative risk analysis across cost and schedule, including Monte Carlo analysis, to support assessment of contingency needs.
- Tracking mitigation actions and the drawdown of contingency in collaboration with Cost Control.
- Running early-warning and escalation routines to support the Project Manager and steering group.
- Integrating risk considerations into change, schedule and estimate reviews, while supporting opportunity management and lessons learned across project gates.
What You’ll Need to Be Successful
To succeed in this position, you should bring:
- A degree in engineering, business, risk management or a relevant related discipline.
- At least 5 years of experience in risk management or project controls within large capital projects.
- Hands-on experience with quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including Monte Carlo analysis.
- Strong facilitation skills and the ability to obtain constructive input from stakeholders with competing priorities.
- A structured and analytical approach to risk.
- The confidence and judgement to communicate emerging or uncomfortable risks early and constructively.
Additional Skills & Interests We Value
Experience that further strengthens your ability to connect risk management with project controls, change, scheduling, estimating or opportunity management will be valuable.
What We Offer
You will have the opportunity to work at the heart of a significant project, collaborating closely with the Project Manager, project controls colleagues, work-package owners and other project stakeholders.
The role provides broad exposure across cost, schedule, change and risk management and an opportunity to contribute directly to project decision-making.
Ways of working:
Job Location – Novonesis Plant, Patalganga MIDC (Near Panvel, Navi Mumbai)
Transport - Available from Kharghar Station and Panvel Station.
Work: - 5 days from office
Application deadline: - 13th November 2026
Our purpose guides the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.
Opportunities for everyone
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.
We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.
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