Risk Management Lead

Company Description

Turner & Townsend 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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

You are an experienced risk management professional with 8-12 years’ experience in large-scale infrastructure or capital projects. You are comfortable leading risk review sessions, driving best practices, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders. You have a strategic mindset, excellent communication skills, and a strong technical understanding of risk management processes, including quantitative analysis techniques like Monte Carlo simulations.

The ideal candidate will coordinate project risk identification via workshops with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders predominantly with project delivery teams, other project controls SMEs, engineers, and project managers.

Job Description

As a risk management professional, you will be involved in:

Leadership & Oversight:

• Lead and manage the program/project risk management activities
• Collaborate withProgram or Risk Director to develop and maintain the program risk management strategy, aligning it with client objectives and best practices.

Risk Management Delivery:

• Oversee the end-to-end risk management process for project/program, ensuring risks are identified, analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and mitigated effectively.
• Conduct and/or oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo simulations) to inform decision-making and support project baselines.
• Regularly review and update program and project risk profiles, ensuring risks are communicated effectively to key stakeholders.
• Utilize Safran or other Risk Management software to facilitate risk analysis, reporting, and tracking of project and program risks.

Integration & Collaboration:

• Integrate risk management with program/project controls, ensuring alignment with cost, schedule, estimate, change control, and reporting functions.
• Work collaboratively with program/project teams and client representatives to identify opportunities for improvement and eliminate redundancies.
• Act as the main point of contact for client and stakeholder risk management inquiries, providing clear and actionable insights.

Knowledge Sharing & Improvement:

• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions, including training, lessons learned workshops, and presentations to enhance risk awareness across the program.
• Continuously improve risk management processes, tools, and methodologies to reflect evolving program needs and industry advancements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of post-graduate experience in risk management within large infrastructure or capital projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (, Engineering, Construction Management, Risk Management).
• Skilled experience using industry standard software packages and applications – Active Risk Manager (ARM), Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA), @Risk, etc.
• Strong understanding of program and project controls environments, including cost, schedule, and change management.
• Proven ability to manage risk on programs or projects exceeding $100M in value, preferably within the transit, infrastructure, defense aviation, infrastructure, or related sectors.
• Professional qualifications in risk management (, PMI-RMP, ARM, or equivalent) or project management (, PMP) are highly desirable.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this full-time role is $95,000 - $145,000 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.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

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.

Turner & Townsend 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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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.