Risk Management Consultant (Transit - Capital Construction Projects)

Turner & Townsend • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced risk professional to join its growing team and support large-scale construction and capital projects. The role involves end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects or programs, including risk planning, assessment, reporting, contingency analysis, and integration with project controls. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with clients, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams, and may support projects in markets such as data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy and natural resources.

The position also includes construction-stage contract and claims management, contractual and dispute advice, delay recovery evaluation, change management, cost control, and final account settlement. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs. SOX control responsibilities may also apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction.
• Minimum of 3 years of applicable experience.
• Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience with risk identification, facilitation, and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical, and negotiation skills.
• In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercial models, and delivery methods.
• Proficiency in process mapping, root cause analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools such as ARM, Predict, and Tableau.
• Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer-centric.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting complex projects in data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, or energy and natural resources.
• Exposure to stakeholder management and multidisciplinary teams across these sectors.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of threat and opportunity trigger points to support risk cost profiling, timely use of risk budgets, and retirement of threats or opportunities.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning, monitor overall risk exposure, and assess remaining risk budgets.
• Work with contractors to assess contractor-held risks and their views on client-held risks that affect them.
• Produce timely risk reports to communicate threat and opportunity status.
• Conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments to inform project contingency levels.
• Review, develop, and improve risk management services for clients.
• Undertake end-to-end risk management practices across multiple projects and programs.
• Create risk management plans and processes that comply with client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
• Conduct regular risk reviews; identify and analyze risks, determine response plans, and monitor and report project and program risk profiles.
• Lead comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment processes, including QCRA and QSRA.
• Integrate risk management into program and project controls, with direct connections to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
• Collaborate with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvements.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer within the risk team, the broader project controls team, and client organizations.
• Create value stream maps to quantify pain points and develop solutions to reduce waste in speed and cost.
• Collaborate on supplier performance management, including collecting performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
• Provide support to expert witnesses in arbitration or litigation processes.
• Lead, manage, and carry out construction-stage contract and claims management.
• Assess contractual claims in accordance with the contract.
• Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and related resolution issues.
• Evaluate delay recovery measures.
• Carry out change management and construction-stage cost control.
• Supervise measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
• Manage final account settlements with contractors.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

Benefits

• A flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
• An inclusive workplace where employees have the opportunity and voice to affect change.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level