Risk Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices.

• Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated.

• Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.

• Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces.

• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.

• Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process.

• Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.

• Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions.

• Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.

• Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting.

• Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure.

• Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk-related input and documentation.

• Review contractor risk submissions, risk registers, mitigation plans, and progress updates to ensure consistency with overall project requirements.

• Promote a proactive risk culture across the project team by improving risk awareness, accountability, and timely communication.

• Contribute to the development of risk management procedures, templates, reports, and governance processes.

• 15+ years of experience in risk management, project controls, project management, or construction management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects.

• Bachelor s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Quantity Surveying, Business, or a related technical field.

• Prior experience working on data centers, mission-critical , industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale building projects.

• Strong knowledge of project risk management principles, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, monitoring, escalation, and reporting.

• Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers, mitigation trackers, risk dashboards, and executive-level risk reports.

• Strong understanding of the relationship between risk, cost, schedule, procurement, commercial management, and project delivery.

• Ability to facilitate risk workshops and engage effectively with multidisciplinary project teams, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex project information and provide practical risk-based recommendations.

• Proficiency in risk management tools, including Monte Carlo simulation and integrated cost-schedule risk methodologies, using Primavera Risk Analysis , Safran Risk , @RISK , Acumen Risk , or similar.

• Experience supporting qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including probability and impact assessments, risk scoring, and trend analysis.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly communicate risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.

• Experience working in a PMC, owner s representative, or client-side project management environment.

• Professional certifications such as PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, IRM, or equivalent risk/project management certification.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master s degree in Construction Management, Engineering Management, Project Management, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Experience working on hyperscale data centers or other large-scale, mission-critical facilities.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, or other project controls platforms.
• Active membership in PMI, AACE, IRM, or similar professional associations.