Senior Risk Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend • Atlanta, GA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is looking for a Senior Risk Manager to join their growing team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced risk professional who has supported large-scale construction projects. This role involves maintaining visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points, using risk data to inform investment planning, monitoring overall risk exposure, and assessing the remaining risk budget. The Senior Risk Manager will collaborate with contractors to assess their risks and their views on client-held risks, produce timely risk reports, and conduct quantitative risk assessments for cost and schedule contingency levels. A proactive approach to the review, development, and improvement of risk management services for the client is expected. The role also encompasses undertaking end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs, creating risk management plans and processes, conducting regular risk reviews, and leading comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment processes (QCRA & QSRA). 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, is crucial. The position requires proactive and collaborative work with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities. Knowledge transfer to the immediate risk team, the greater project controls team, and the client is also a key aspect. Additionally, the role involves creating value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions, collaborating on the supplier performance management program, supporting expert witnesses in arbitral or litigation processes, leading construction stage contract and claims management, assessing contractual claims, providing strategic and contractual advice on disputes, evaluating delay recovery measures, carrying out change management and construction stage cost control, supervising measurement and valuation of completed works and variations, and managing the settlement of final accounts with contractors. SOX control responsibilities may also be part of this role.

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.

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. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues.
• 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 ligation 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.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Benefits

• A great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• Support to succeed both in work and life.
• A healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

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