Senior Project Risk Manager

Iberdrola•Portland, OR

20h•$120,000 - $145,800•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Risk Manager serves as the senior project and portfolio risk management lead within Project Delivery, accountable for establishing and governing a consistent risk management framework across the project lifecycle. The role provides independent challenge, quantitative risk insight, and decision support to project teams and senior management, with particular focus on interconnection, development, construction, procurement, financial, commercial, schedule, cost, contractual, and operational risk. The position owns the quality and maturity of project risk practices, translates uncertainty into actionable management information, and ensures material threats and opportunities are identified, quantified, assigned, mitigated, escalated, and monitored. The Senior Risk Manager partners with Project Controls, Development, Construction, Procurement, Finance, and other stakeholders to strengthen forecast confidence and support informed portfolio and project decisions. The role operates across individual projects and the broader portfolio, influencing cross-functional teams and risk owners. It provides recommendations where uncertainty could materially affect cost, schedule, commercial outcomes, or delivery commitments, and leads improvement of risk governance, analytics, and reporting maturity across Project Delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, business, economics, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 5 years of relevant experience in project, construction, development, or enterprise risk management; experience supporting complex capital projects is preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading risk workshops, maintaining risk registers, developing mitigation strategies, and communicating material risk exposure to senior stakeholders.
Strong quantitative and analytical capability, including advanced spreadsheet and data-modelling skills.
Working knowledge of project controls, scheduling, cost management, forecasting, change control, and contingency management, with the ability to connect risk exposure to cost and schedule outcomes.
Ability to travel up to 20%.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cost and schedule risk analysis and scenario modelling.
Working knowledge of construction law, contracts, claims avoidance, insurance, procurement, and contract administration.
Familiarity with renewable energy construction and projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex risk information clearly and influence decisions in a matrixed organization.
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
Self-directed and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining governance and analytical discipline.
Professional risk or project management credentials such as PRM, PMI-RMP, PMP, or equivalent advanced education or certification.

Responsibilities

Own, implement, and continuously improve the enterprise and project risk management framework, standards, governance, procedures, templates, and reporting requirements for Project Delivery.
Lead risk identification, assessment, and review workshops for key projects and portfolios; challenge assumptions and ensure risks and opportunities are clearly defined, assessed, assigned, and actively managed.
Maintain the integrity of project risk registers and portfolio risk information, including risk statements, causes, consequences, probability, impact, response actions, owners, target dates, and residual exposure.
Develop and maintain risk classification, scoring, escalation, and aggregation practices to provide consistent visibility of material exposure across projects and the portfolio.
Quantify cost and schedule uncertainty using quantitative risk analysis and scenario techniques, and translate results into recommendations for contingency, management reserve, forecast confidence, and decision-making.
Integrate risk management with project controls processes, including cost management, scheduling, forecasting, change management, procurement, and reporting.
Prepare and present project and portfolio risk reporting to senior management, highlighting material exposures, emerging risks, trends, mitigation effectiveness, required decisions, and escalation needs.
Provide independent risk challenge to major project decisions, business proposals, estimates, schedules, contracting strategies, and commercial positions before approvals or governance gates.
Review major contracts and procurement strategies from a risk perspective, including commercial, contractual, construction, claims, insurance, and delivery risk; identify mitigation and risk-transfer opportunities.
Establish and monitor response plans for high-priority exposures, hold owners accountable for mitigation actions, and escalate overdue or ineffective responses through governance channels.
Facilitate cross-functional risk discussions and ensure dependencies, interfaces, and systemic risks across development, engineering, procurement, construction, and operations are visible and managed.
Develop business continuity and risk response strategies, where applicable, to reduce disruption and protect project objectives.
Define risk metrics and management information, conduct periodic quality reviews and audits, and verify that project risk data is current, consistent, and decision-useful.
Champion risk culture by coaching leaders and project teams on uncertainty, contingency, risk ownership, escalation, and risk management tools and techniques.
Support lessons learned and continuous improvement by analyzing realized risks, mitigation effectiveness, and recurring risk drivers across the portfolio.
Act as a subject-matter expert in project risk management and contribute to the advancement of project management and Project Controls capability.
Influence cross-functional teams and risk owners to ensure risk responses are actionable and aligned with project objectives.
Recommend risk-adjusted alternatives and support leadership decisions where uncertainty could materially affect cost, schedule, commercial outcomes, or delivery commitments.