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Company Profile:

Repsol is a globally integrated multi-energy company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. With a team of 25,000 employees across more than 20 countries, we proudly serve 24 million customers worldwide. Our diversified renewable energy portfolio totals over 6,000 MW of installed capacity, with a strong presence in Spain, the United States, and Chile.

As part of our commitment to a more sustainable future, low-emissions generation is at the core of our strategy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Repsol Renewables North America (RRSNA) plays a key role in this vision, with aims to increase generation capacity to between3,000 MW and4,000 MW by 2027.

We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and purpose. Repsol offers a comprehensive Employee Value Proposition (EVP), including a holistic Total Rewards program that supports the wellbeing, growth, and contributions of our people. Join us in shaping the future of energy.

Job Summary:

Repsol Renewables North America is seeking a Project Risk Control Manager to build, lead, and institutionalize the Project Risk Management Framework across the Development and Engineering & Construction (E&C) portfolio.

This role is designed for a seasoned, quantitatively strong, and deeply technical project risk professional with mastery in probabilistic cost and schedule risk analysis, robust understanding of EPC execution, and the ability to design scalable governance across a multiproject renewable portfolio.

You will serve as the functional owner for project risk processes, standards, tools, and reporting. You will partner with Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Procurement, Legal, and EPC contractors to ensure early risk identification, strong mitigation actions, and predictable project outcomes from development through commissioning.

The position is based in Downtown Houston with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Risk Framework Leadership:

• Design, implement, and govern the Project Risk Management Framework across the portfolio.

• Develop standardized risk processes, templates, thresholds, and governance protocols.

• Train PMs, engineers, and project controls staff on qualitative and quantitative risk methodologies.

• Lead risk maturity improvements and establish crossproject insights, benchmarks, and reporting cadence.

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Project Risk Identification & Assessment:

• Facilitate comprehensive risk identification sessions across Development, Engineering, Construction, Permitting, Grid, Land, and HSE.

• Maintain highquality risk registers with probability-impact scoring, rootcause mapping, and mitigation tracking.

• Establish leading indicators to detect emerging risks and deviations early.

Project Risk Identification & Assessment:

• Partner with PMs and technical leads to define and verify the effectiveness of mitigation actions.

• Embed risk controls into engineering deliverables, construction execution plans, scopes of work, and procurement strategies.

• Challenge superficial mitigations and escalate overdue or ineffective controls to leadership.

Construction & Site Risk Oversight:

• Conduct targeted, riskbased site visits to validate field conditions, logistics, heavyhaul routes, civil work progress, electrical installation risks, QA/QC exposure, and commissioning readiness.

• Partner with HSE on safetycritical risks affecting construction execution.

• Track deviations, near misses, early warnings, and emerging sitebased risks.

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Schedule & Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis:

• Lead full Monte Carlobased cost and schedule risk analyses using Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA), @Risk, Safran, or equivalent tools.

• Build and validate risk models including distributions, correlation, and dependency structures.

• Generate contingency recommendations for budgets, schedules, reserves, and approval gates.

• Stresstest critical paths, procurement lead times, engineering maturity, construction sequencing, interconnection timelines, and commissioning readiness.

Qualifications:

• 10-15+ years of experience in project risk management, project controls, engineering, or construction for large capital projects.

• Demonstrated mastery in probabilistic schedule and cost risk analysis using Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran, or similar tools.

• Deep understanding of EPC and multicontract execution risks (engineering maturity, civil/electrical, longlead procurement, logistics, commissioning).

• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6, advanced Excel modeling, and enterprise risk platforms (ARM, Primavera Risk, etc.).

• Proven ability to lead highimpact risk workshops and challenge assumptions with senior PMs, engineering leads, and EPC contractors.

• Experience building frameworks, governance structures, and portfoliolevel risk reporting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or Risk Management.

• Master's degree or certifications such as PMP or PMIRMP.

• Experience in utilityscale solar, storage, or major infrastructure projects.

• Strong analytical communicator with ability to translate probabilitybased results into executive decisions.

Repsol is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran