Risk Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related field, plus at least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, or management of complex capital projects (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Experience leading or administering risk management for a large, technically complex capital project, construction program, scientific facility, infrastructure program, aerospace/defense program, or comparable high-consequence undertaking
• Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews
• Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and mitigation actions
• Experience performing or directing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, estimate/schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence-level assessment
• Experience integrating risk information with an integrated master schedule, cost estimates, EAC, change control, and performance reporting
• Experience producing and defending executive-level risk assessments before senior management or independent reviewers
• Experience working across technical, project management, project controls, procurement, construction, and operations teams
• Strong analytical writing, presentation, facilitation, and executive-communication skills
• Ability to challenge unsupported assumptions and escalate material concerns while maintaining constructive relationships
• Strong records-management and configuration-control discipline

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting a DOE Order 413.3B capital asset project or comparable federally governed major project
• Working knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A or comparable capital-project risk-management guidance
• Experience with Safran Risk Manager and Safran Risk
• Proficiency with Primavera P6
• Familiarity with earned-value systems and EVMS concepts
• Experience supporting a project rebaseline, recovery plan, independent cost estimate, or major corrective-action effort
• Experience with accelerator facilities, scientific user facilities, installation-intensive projects, industrial construction, aerospace, or defense programs
• Professional certification such as PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), PMP, AACE certification, or equivalent
• Advanced degree in a relevant technical, analytical, or management discipline

Responsibilities

• Maintain and periodically update the project's Risk Management Plan, procedures, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence
• Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records
• Facilitate the Risk Management Board and focused risk reviews; develop agendas, document decisions, track actions, and elevate unresolved risks to leadership
• Establish a disciplined risk-management process with explicit assumptions, assigned ownership, and traceable mitigation commitments
• Facilitate project-wide risk workshops, subsystem risk reviews, schedule-risk sessions, lessons-learned reviews, and targeted deep dives
• Participate in technical, procurement, vendor-performance, installation-readiness, commissioning-readiness, staffing, and logistics reviews to identify risks and opportunities
• Develop risk statements with clear causal events, conditions, and consequences, supported by defensible probability, cost, schedule, and technical bases
• Maintain complete risk information in an approved risk-management system (e.g., Safran Risk Manager)
• Identify cross-cutting, systemic, correlated, and compounding risks not visible within individual technical or cost areas
• Develop and maintain integrated cost and schedule risk-analysis models
• Perform Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, estimate- and schedule-uncertainty analysis, correlation analysis, and confidence-level assessments
• Coordinate with Project Controls to map risks and mitigations to schedule activities, milestones, cost estimates, and contingency forecasts
• Evaluate cost and schedule contingency adequacy and interpret quantitative results for technical and executive audiences
• Support baseline-change proposals, recovery plans, funding scenarios, and independent reviews
• Assist risk owners in developing specific, measurable, time-phased mitigation plans
• Track mitigation commitments, trigger conditions, due dates, and residual exposure
• Identify overdue, stalled, or ineffective mitigation actions and escalate material concerns as needed
• Conduct forward-looking assessments of critical-path and near-critical-path work
• Evaluate vendor, staffing, funding, installation, and commissioning risk exposure
• Monitor external dependencies including funding, regulatory, supply-chain, and institutional factors
• Prepare monthly risk reports and executive-level briefings for leadership and external reviewers
• Maintain auditable records of risk decisions, ownership changes, and mitigation commitments
• Respond to review recommendations and corrective-action requirements
• Develop and deliver role-based risk-management training
• Establish quality-check guidance for risk statements, mitigation plans, and reporting
• Benchmark practices against industry standards and recommend improvements