Senior Program Risk Manager - Data Center Construction

The company  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 the company 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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We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

The company is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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The company is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. The company and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.