Risk Manager

Turner & Townsend • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced risk professional to join its growing team, supporting large-scale construction projects in the infrastructure and transit market. The role involves end-to-end risk management across multiple projects and programs, including risk planning, assessment, monitoring, reporting, contingency analysis, and integration with project controls. The position also covers construction-stage contract and claims management, change management, cost control, contractual advice, and contractor account settlement. The project/program described is valued at $8 billion and requires FTA risk assessment expertise. 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.
• Minimum 3 years of applicable experience.
• Relevant construction project risk management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience with FTA risk procedures, risk identification and mitigation, 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.
• Software requirements include Procore PMIS, Oracle, and Bluebeam.

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 practices 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 ensure project and program risk profiles are monitored and reported.
• Lead and deliver comprehensive quantitative cost risk assessment (QCRA) and quantitative schedule risk assessment (QSRA) processes.
• Integrate risk management into the program and project controls team, with direct 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 informal discussions and formal presentations.
• Create value stream maps to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste in speed and cost.
• Collaborate on supplier performance management, including collecting performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
• Provide support to 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.

Benefits

• A flexible working environment that supports work-life balance.
• An inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and provides employees the opportunity and voice to affect change.

What This Job Offers

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