Risk Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend•Chicago, IL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join their growing team. This role will support large-scale construction projects, focusing on managing risks and opportunities to ensure successful project delivery. The position involves maintaining visibility of threats and opportunities, using risk data to inform investment planning, monitoring overall risk exposure, and collaborating with contractors on risk assessments. The Risk Manager will be responsible for producing timely risk reports, conducting quantitative risk assessments, and improving risk management services for the client. This role requires undertaking end-to-end project risk management practices, creating risk management plans, and conducting regular risk reviews. A key aspect of the role is leading comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment processes and integrating the risk management function within the program and project controls team. The position also involves collaborating with project control teams, facilitating knowledge transfer, creating value stream maps, supporting supplier performance management, assisting expert witnesses, and managing construction stage contract and claims management, including change management and cost control.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
Minimum 5-7 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.
Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau.
Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.
Excellent communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Ability to travel to the St. Louis, MO project area as needed.

Responsibilities

Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
Use risk data to inform investment planning.
Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
Work with contractors to assess contractors held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of risk management services for the client.
Undertake end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs.
Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
Conduct risk reviews at regular intervals, identify and analyze, determine response plans, ensure that project and program risk profiles are being monitored and reported.
Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.
Establish integration of the risk management function within the program and project controls team, with direct touch points to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client.
Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
Collaborate on the supplier performance management program including the collection of performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
Demonstrate a level of support to expert witnesses in arbitral or litigation processes.
Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
Carry out assessment of 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 the measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
Manage the settlement of final accounts with contractors.
Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.