Senior Program Risk Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend  is looking for a  Senior Risk Manager  to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.

Responsibilities: 

- Develop, implement, and continuously improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), risk frameworks, templates, and best practices to drive consistency and efficiency across the program.

- Conduct quantitative and qualitative risk assessments, including Monte Carlo simulations, Cost Risk Assessments (CRA), and Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) to support contingency planning and schedule confidence analysis.

- Analyze project schedules to identify key schedule drivers, critical path risks, schedule uncertainty, and opportunities for schedule improvement.

- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on significant risk events, schedule impacts, and recurring program issues, identifying corrective and preventive actions.

- Support the establishment and maintenance of program-wide risk governance, ensuring consistency of risk processes, reporting, and controls across multiple projects.

- Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity. 

- Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget. 

- Lead full risk workshop at construction kickoff ensuring integration with general contractor and client team

- Facilitate risk identification workshops with cross-functional stakeholders, e.g., contractor, engineering, construction, commissioning, procurement, project controls.

- Maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are categorized, scored (likelihood x impact), and updated regularly.

- 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. 

- Track mitigation actions, assign owners, and monitor progress through to closure.

- 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. 

- Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost). 

- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

- College Degree in Business Administration, Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture. 

- Experience and working in Project Management on large-scale construction programs. 

- Experienced in Design/Architecture/Civil works. 

- Solid working proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and MS Office Suite. 

- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to be highly effective in a client facing role. 

- Team player; ability to work collaboratively. 

The salary range for this full-time role is $150K-$170K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package.  Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients' needs.*

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