🚀 Senior Project Risk ManagerLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA$195/hour + Benefits | 1-Year Contract | Full-Time | Primarily On-Site (Hybrid/Remote available)Lead Risk Management for a High-Impact Scientific ProjectLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking an accomplished
Senior Project Risk Manager to lead integrated risk management for the
Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) Project.
This is a high-visibility opportunity to work directly with senior project leadership, engineering, project controls, DOE, and technical teams on a complex, nationally significant scientific infrastructure program.
You will provide the insight and analysis leadership needs to make
informed, timely, and confident project decisions.
What You'll Do- Lead the ALS-U enterprise project risk-management program and maintain the project risk register.
- Facilitate risk workshops, Risk Management Board meetings, deep dives, and senior-level risk reviews.
- Identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and escalate technical, cost, schedule, procurement, installation, commissioning, staffing, and external risks.
- Develop and maintain quantitative cost and schedule risk models.
- Perform Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, uncertainty analysis, and contingency assessments.
- Integrate risk with Primavera P6, cost estimates, control accounts, critical-path activities, contingency, and project forecasts.
- Challenge assumptions, evaluate mitigation effectiveness, identify emerging risks, and ensure accountability for risk-response actions.
- Prepare executive-level risk reports, briefings, and decision-support materials for project leadership, Laboratory management, DOE, and external review committees.
- Support rebaselines, recovery plans, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, DOE reviews, and major project decisions.
- Continuously improve risk processes, tools, reporting, training, and governance.
What You Bring- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost/schedule management, or complex capital projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, Economics, Statistics, or related field-or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience managing risk for large, technically complex capital, infrastructure, scientific, aerospace, defense, or industrial projects.
- Strong experience with risk registers, risk workshops, mitigation planning, and executive-level risk reporting.
- Advanced quantitative risk-analysis experience, including Monte Carlo simulation, cost/schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence levels.
- Experience integrating risk with Integrated Master Schedules, cost estimates, EAC, change control, and project performance reporting.
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, analytical, and presentation skills.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, communicate difficult information, and escalate material risks while maintaining strong working relationships.
* Preferred- DOE Order 413.3B capital-project experience.
- Knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A.
- Experience with Safran Risk / Safran Risk Manager.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6.
- EVMS experience.
- Experience with project rebaselines, recovery plans, independent cost estimates, external reviews, or corrective-action programs.
- Experience with particle accelerators, scientific facilities, major infrastructure, aerospace, defense, or highly integrated technical programs.
- PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, or equivalent certification.
- Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
💰 Compensation & Contract$195/hour + Benefits1-Year Contract with potential for
two additional 1-year extensionsWhy This Role?This isn't simply a risk-management position-it is an opportunity to
shape how a major scientific project understands uncertainty, protects contingency, manages critical-path exposure, and makes high-stakes decisions.If you're a senior risk professional who can move seamlessly between
executive strategy, quantitative analysis, project controls, and technical teams, we want to hear from you.
