Risk Management Consultant (Transit - Capital Construction Projects)

Turner & Townsend•Austin, TX

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced risk professional to support large-scale construction and capital projects. The role involves end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects and programs, with responsibility for risk planning, assessment, reporting, contingency analysis, and integration with project controls. Candidates should have experience supporting construction and capital project delivery in one or more relevant markets, such as data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, or energy and natural resources. Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams is preferred. The role also includes construction-stage contract, claims, change, and cost-control activities. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with contractors, clients, and project teams, provide contractual and dispute-related advice, and support continuous improvement and knowledge transfer. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
At least 3 years of applicable experience.
Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
Demonstrated experience in a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
Deep knowledge and experience in 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 construction and capital project delivery in data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, or energy and natural resources.
Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams across relevant sectors.

Responsibilities

Maintain visibility of threat and opportunity trigger points to support risk cost profiling, timely risk-budget drawdown, or retirement of threats and opportunities.
Use risk data to inform investment planning.
Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
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 the client.
Undertake end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects and programs.
Create risk management plans and processes in accordance 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 (QCRA and QSRA).
Integrate risk management into program and project controls, with links to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
Collaborate with program and project controls teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
Facilitate knowledge transfer within the risk team, the wider project controls team, and the client through discussions and presentations.
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.
Support 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 settlement of final accounts with contractors.
Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.