Risk Manager

Hill international•Berkeley, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Hill International is seeking a Risk Manager in Berkeley, California. This role involves maintaining and updating the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, serving as the principal project advisor on risk management, and providing independent assessments of threats and opportunities. The Risk Manager will facilitate risk reviews, develop risk statements, and manage risk information in designated systems. A key aspect of the role is developing and maintaining integrated cost and schedule risk analysis models, performing various simulations and analyses, and evaluating the realism of risk assessments. The position requires close coordination with Project Controls and the ability to interpret quantitative results for diverse audiences. The Risk Manager will also support baseline changes, recovery plans, and conduct forward-looking assessments of critical project elements. This includes evaluating risks associated with vendor delivery, staffing, funding, construction, commissioning, and operational transition, as well as assessing proposed management decisions and external dependencies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline, and at least eight years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, or management of complex capital projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Must have 10 years of relevant experience.
Experience leading or administering risk management for a large, technically complex capital project, construction program, scientific facility, infrastructure program, aerospace or defense program, or comparable high-consequence undertaking.
Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers.
Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews.
Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and mitigation actions.
Experience performing or directing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, estimate uncertainty, schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence-level assessment.
Experience integrating risk information with an Integrated Master Schedule, cost estimate, Estimate at Completion, change-control process, and project performance reporting.
Experience producing executive-level risk assessments and defending methodology, assumptions, and results before senior management or independent reviewers.
Experience working across technical, project-management, project-controls, procurement, construction, operations, and institutional support organizations.
Strong analytical writing, presentation, facilitation, and executive-communication skills.
Ability to challenge unsupported assumptions, raise unfavorable information, and escalate material concerns while maintaining constructive working relationships.
Strong records-management and configuration-control discipline.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a DOE Order 413.3B capital asset project or comparable federally governed major project.
Working knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A or comparable capital-project risk-management guidance.
Experience with Safran Risk Manager and Safran Risk.
Proficiency with Primavera P6.
Familiarity with earned-value systems and EVMS concepts.
Experience supporting a project rebaseline, baseline deviation, recovery plan, independent cost estimate, external review, or major corrective-action effort.
Experience with accelerator facilities, scientific user facilities, installation-intensive projects, industrial construction, aerospace, defense, or other highly integrated technical programs.
Professional certification such as PMI Risk Management Professional, Project Management Professional, AACE certification, or equivalent.
Advanced degree in a relevant technical, analytical, or management discipline.

Responsibilities

Maintain and periodically update the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, supporting procedures, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence.
Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records.
Serve as the principal project advisor on risk-management matters.
Provide independent and objective assessments of threats and opportunities affecting project scope, cost, schedule, technical performance, installation readiness, commissioning, and achievement of Key Performance Parameters.
Facilitate the ALS-U Risk Management Board and focused risk reviews.
Develop meeting agendas, document decisions, track assigned actions, and elevate unresolved or inadequately managed risks to project leadership.
Establish and maintain a disciplined risk-management process in which assumptions are explicit, ownership is assigned, mitigation commitments are traceable, and material information is communicated promptly.
Facilitate project-wide risk workshops, subsystem risk reviews, schedule-risk sessions, lessons-learned reviews, and targeted risk deep dives.
Participate in technical, procurement, vendor-performance, installation-readiness, commissioning-readiness, staffing, space, logistics, and other project reviews to identify relevant risks and opportunities.
Develop and maintain risk statements that clearly identify the causal event, affected condition, and potential consequence.
Ensure risk entries include defensible probability, cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic bases.
Maintain complete and current risk information in Safran Risk Manager or another LBNL-approved system.
Document risk ownership, affected Work Breakdown Structure elements, triggers, handling strategies, mitigation actions, due dates, retirement criteria, residual exposure, and supporting rationale.
Identify cross-cutting, systemic, correlated, and compounding risks that may not be visible within individual control accounts or technical systems.
Reconcile risk assumptions with the Integrated Master Schedule, Basis of Estimate documentation, procurement plans, technical maturity assessments, staffing plans, change-control actions, funding assumptions, and other project-control records.
Develop and maintain integrated cost and schedule risk-analysis models using Safran Risk or other LBNL-approved tools.
Perform Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, estimate-uncertainty analysis, schedule-uncertainty analysis, risk correlation, and confidence-level assessment.
Evaluate the realism and quality of probability distributions, risk impacts, estimate uncertainty, schedule uncertainty, correlation assumptions, mitigation assumptions, and retirement timing.
Coordinate with Project Controls to map risk events and mitigation actions to P6 activities, milestones, cost estimates, control accounts, critical and near-critical paths, schedule margin, and contingency forecasts.
Evaluate cost and schedule contingency adequacy and changes in exposure.
Reconcile modeled exposure with available contingency, realized risks, retired risks, emerging threats, and approved baseline changes.
Interpret quantitative results for technical and nontechnical audiences, including principal risk drivers, assumptions, limitations, sensitivity, and changes from prior analyses.
Support baseline-change proposals, recovery plans, acceleration strategies, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, and DOE reviews.
Conduct forward-looking assessments of critical-path and near-critical-path work.
Evaluate vendor-delivery exposure, staffing constraints, funding scenarios, workspace limitations, installation sequencing, technical interfaces, construction readiness, commissioning readiness, and off-project dependencies.
Assess risks associated with design maturity, procurement performance, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, and transition to operations.
Evaluate proposed management decisions, baseline changes, recovery strategies, and acceleration scenarios for secondary effects and changes in risk exposure.
Monitor external dependencies, including DOE actions, funding profiles, regulatory approvals, tariffs, supply-chain conditions, institutional commitments, labor availability, and interfacing organizations.
Support management assessments and focused analyses requested by project leadership.