Risk Manager - Aviation

Turner & Townsend • $130K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • U.S. citizen eligible for Public Trust security clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in risk management or construction.
  • Experience in construction project procurement and contract management.
  • Familiar with construction delivery methods and project execution practices.
  • Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient with database tools like ARM, Kahua, and Tableau.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare recurring risk reports for PMO and leadership.
  • Facilitate risk identification and documentation across workstreams.
  • Maintain risk registers at various program levels.
  • Guide project teams in risk identification and mitigation practices.
  • Monitor overall risk exposure and assess remaining budget.
  • Collaborate with teams to manage risk ownership and impacts.
  • Conduct quantitative risk assessments to inform project contingencies.

Benefits

  • Promotes a healthy work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Flexible working environment.
  • Dynamic team culture focused on collaboration.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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

Responsibilities:
  • Prepare and support the delivery of recurring risk reporting and escalation to PMO and program leadership (e.g., PMO Lead, Alliance Director), synthesizing inputs across workstreams to highlight key risks, cross-cutting issues, and decision-relevant insights.
  • Facilitate risk identification and intake across workstreams, working with technical, construction, and delivery teams to capture complete and actionable risk information.
  • Maintain and coordinate risk registers across multiple levels of the program, including project-level inputs, NEEDS package-level registers, and program-level risk views.
  • Support and guide project teams in effective risk identification, mitigation, and escalation practices, ensuring consistent inputs into various level risk registers.
  • 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.
  • Collaborate with workstream and delivery teams to understand risk ownership, dependencies, and impacts across the program.
  • Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
  • 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.
  • Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.
  • 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.
  • Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues.
  • Support the identification and communication of risks impacting schedule performance and recovery planning.
  • Collaborate with program controls and delivery teams to ensure risks are appropriately aligned with change management processes and reflected in construction stage cost and schedule impacts.
  • SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.


Qualifications
  • Due to federal contract requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens and capable of obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Public Trust security clearance. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the Public Trust investigation.
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
  • 10+ years of applicable experience.
  • Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
  • Understanding of construction delivery methods and project execution practices, with awareness of how risks may impact cost, schedule, and delivery.
  • Strong communication, analytical and facilitation skills. and negotiation skills.
  • In-depth understanding of construction delivery methods, contracts, and commercial models.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and improve processes where appropriate.
  • Familiarity with web-based database tools - ARM, Kahua, Tableau
  • Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.
  • Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments (e.g., owner, integrator, PMO, contractors).
  • Ability to operate effectively in environments where processes, tools, and governance are evolving.


Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $130K-$150K 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.

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