Risk Management Lead

Turner & Townsend • Houston, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend seeks a Risk Management Lead to join its growing team. The role leads risk management services for key client accounts and supports the growth of the company’s risk management services. It is based in Houston, Texas, with up to 20% travel to Eunice, New Mexico. The position delivers end-to-end project and program risk management, integrates risk management with project controls, and provides contractual and construction-stage commercial support. It also supports bids and works with senior management and the wider Turner & Townsend team. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs. SOX control responsibilities may apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
• At least 12 years of relevant risk management or risk program controls experience.
• At least 2 years managing high-performing risk management services and teams in a consulting environment.
• Deep knowledge of risk identification facilitation and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical, and negotiation skills.
• Experience conducting risk management training sessions.
• 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 approach.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation, verbal, written, and organizational skills.
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative behaviors; organized and thorough working style.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in quantity surveying, cost management, construction management, or engineering.
• Experience in formulating, setting up, procuring, and administering target-cost contracts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of threat and opportunity trigger points to support risk cost profiling, timely risk-budget drawdown, and retirement of threats or opportunities.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning, monitor overall risk exposure, and assess exposure against 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, including leading the comprehensive QCRA and QSRA process.
• Ensure delivery of best-practice risk management activities and report to the Head of Department.
• Review, develop, and improve the risk management service provided to the client.
• Undertake end-to-end risk management on multiple projects and programs.
• Create risk management plans and processes in line with client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
• Lead workshops with internal and external stakeholders; conduct regular risk reviews, identify and analyze risks, determine response plans, and monitor and report project and program risk profiles.
• Integrate risk management with program and project controls, including cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
• Collaborate with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer within the risk team, across the project controls team, and to the client through discussions and presentations.
• Create value-stream maps to quantify pain points and develop solutions that minimize waste in time and cost.
• Develop improved operating procedures and best practices for wider client-organization use to reduce turnaround times, amendments, and queries.
• Align recommendations with project needs, delivery type, contract models, and contract-negotiation phase.
• Collaborate on supplier performance management, including collecting performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
• Provide support to expert witnesses in arbitral or litigation processes.
• Lead, manage, and carry out construction-stage contract and claims management; provide strategic and professional contractual advice; assess claims under the contract; and advise on disputes and resolution.
• Evaluate delay-recovery measures; carry out change management and construction-stage cost control; supervise measurement and valuation of completed works and variations; and manage settlement of contractors’ final accounts.
• Perform other relevant contract management and administration tasks to help achieve project completion on time and within budget.
• Prepare and support bid proposals and work with senior management and the wider Turner & Townsend team.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment that supports work-life balance.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and an inclusive environment.

What This Job Offers

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