Risk Manager - Aviation

Turner & Townsend•Wide Ruins, AZ

4d•$130,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced risk professional to support large-scale construction projects and complex programs within its Infrastructure department. The role involves end-to-end risk management across multiple projects and programs, integrating risk management with project controls, cost and schedule management, change control, safety, and reporting. The position supports program leadership and the client through coordinated risk registers, recurring reporting, concise decision-focused briefings, risk reviews, and quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments. The successful candidate will help teams identify, validate, assess, mitigate, escalate, and monitor risks, while improving risk management practices and transferring knowledge across project teams and client organizations. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and capable of obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Public Trust security clearance; employment is contingent on successful completion of the Public Trust investigation. The role requires a relevant bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of applicable experience. The listed salary range is $130,000–$150,000 per year in the Additional Information section; the Compensation line separately lists USD 130,000–USD 180,000 yearly. Turner & Townsend describes a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust security clearance; employment is contingent on successful completion of the Public Trust investigation.
Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction.
10+ years of applicable experience.
Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
Demonstrated experience in a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
Understanding of construction delivery methods and project execution practices, including the effects of risks on cost, schedule, and delivery.
Strong communication, analytical, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
In-depth understanding of construction delivery methods, contracts, and commercial models.
Strong problem-solving skills, including ability to identify root causes and improve processes where appropriate.
Familiarity with web-based database and reporting tools such as ARM, Kahua, and Tableau.
Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer-centric approach.
Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, including owner, integrator, PMO, and contractor organizations.
Ability to operate effectively in environments where processes, tools, and governance are evolving.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting federal programs or projects.
Experience delivering work through or in coordination with a prime contractor.
Experience in FAA, airport, aviation, or similarly complex regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Prepare and support recurring risk reporting and escalation to the PMO and program leadership, synthesizing inputs across workstreams to highlight key risks, cross-cutting issues, and decision-relevant insights.
Prepare concise, decision-focused risk briefings for program leadership and the client, presenting conclusions, options, recommended actions, and supporting analysis.
Facilitate risk identification and intake across workstreams with technical, construction, and delivery teams.
Validate risks with the owning workstream lead before reporting or escalation, documenting the validation source and date.
Maintain and coordinate risk registers across project, NEEDS package, and program levels.
Support and guide project teams in risk identification, mitigation, and escalation practices and ensure consistent risk-register inputs.
Develop, document, and maintain escalation criteria for site, cross-site, and program-level risks, along with the risk reporting cadence, within the Risk Management Plan.
Maintain visibility of threat and opportunity trigger points to support risk cost profiling, timely risk-budget drawdown, and retirement of threats or opportunities.
Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
Collaborate with workstream and delivery teams to understand risk ownership, dependencies, and program impacts.
Conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments to inform project contingency levels.
Lead comprehensive cost and schedule risk assessments, including QCRA and QSRA processes.
Review, develop, and continuously improve risk management services for the client.
Undertake end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects and programs.
Develop and maintain 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.
Integrate risk management into program and project controls, with direct touchpoints to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
Collaborate proactively with program and project controls teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
Coordinate with the Safety Lead to ensure hazards that also represent cost or schedule risks are captured once and managed consistently across risk and safety processes, in alignment with the Safety Management Plan.
Facilitate risk management knowledge transfer within the risk team, the broader project controls team, and the client organization, including informal discussions and formal presentations.
Support identification and communication of risks affecting schedule performance and recovery planning.
Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.