Senior Risk Manager

flextoninc

• $405K *
Berkeley, CA 94704Hybrid
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Risk Management, Business, Finance or related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years in project risk management or related disciplines.
  • Experience leading risk management programs for large-scale, multidisciplinary projects.
  • Strong knowledge of risk management methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative.
  • Proven ability to perform cost and schedule risk analysis and manage project risk registers.
  • Exceptional analytical and communication skills with senior leadership.
  • Familiarity with risk management tools and data analysis software.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integrated project risk-management program.
  • Establish risk-management processes and governance frameworks.
  • Ensure consistent risk-management practices across projects.
  • Facilitate risk reviews and workshops with stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain project risk register and mitigation strategies.
  • Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation actions.
  • Communicate risk trends and status updates to project leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Exposure to large-scale, complex projects.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and senior management.
  • Access to industry-standard risk management frameworks and tools.
  • Opportunity to apply and enhance quantitative risk analysis skills.
Full Job Description
Senior Risk Manager
Payrate: $195/hr on W2
Desired Start Date: August 17, 2026
Desired End Date: August 16, 2027
  • Lead and administer the integrated project risk-management program.
  • Establish and maintain risk-management processes, procedures, and governance frameworks.
  • Ensure consistent application of risk-management practices across project functions and work packages.
  • Integrate risk management with project controls, cost management, schedule management, change management, and project execution.
  • Establish risk-management roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and accountability.
  • Facilitate risk reviews, risk workshops, and management discussions.
  • Identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and communicate project risks and opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain the project risk register.
  • Ensure risks are documented with causes, consequences, likelihood, impacts, ownership, and response strategies.
  • Identify risk interdependencies and relationships between risks.
  • Assign and monitor risk ownership and accountability.
  • Perform and/or oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses.
  • Develop risk-based cost and schedule models using appropriate quantitative methodologies.
  • Evaluate the potential impact of risks on project cost and schedule objectives.
  • Conduct probabilistic analysis, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and risk-driver analysis as required.
  • Support development of confidence levels, contingency estimates, and management reserve recommendations.
  • Work with risk owners to develop practical and measurable risk mitigation strategies.
  • Establish mitigation actions, responsible parties, target dates, and expected outcomes.
  • Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of mitigation activities.
  • Track overdue, ineffective, or deteriorating mitigation actions and escalate significant risks.
  • Evaluate residual risk following implementation of mitigation measures.
  • Integrate risk management with project planning, scheduling, engineering, procurement, construction, installation, testing, and commissioning activities.
  • Monitor emerging conditions that could create new risks or opportunities.
  • Conduct forward-looking assessments of project risk exposure.
  • Identify trends and leading indicators that may affect project objectives.
  • Assess the impact of major project changes on the existing risk profile.
  • Support change-control and management decision processes through risk analysis.
  • Evaluate cumulative and interconnected risks across project functions.
  • Provide early warning of emerging issues and potential project impacts.
  • Prepare periodic risk reports, dashboards, and executive-level risk summaries.
  • Present significant risks, opportunities, trends, and mitigation status to project leadership.
  • Prepare risk information for formal project reviews and management assessments.
  • Communicate significant changes in risk exposure to appropriate stakeholders.
  • Develop clear visualizations of risk trends, exposure, mitigation status, and risk drivers.
  • Facilitate risk workshops and cross-functional risk reviews.
  • Provide guidance and training to project personnel on risk identification, assessment, response planning, and monitoring.
  • Promote consistent application of risk-management methodologies across project teams.
  • Identify opportunities to improve risk-management processes, tools, and reporting.
  • Capture and apply lessons learned from risk events and mitigation activities.
  • Recommend process improvements based on project experience, industry practices, and emerging risk-management methodologies.
  • Provide objective, data-driven, and decision-ready risk information to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Risk Management, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in project risk management, program management, project controls, or related disciplines.
  • Demonstrated experience leading risk-management programs for large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary projects.
  • Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk-management methodologies.
  • Experience performing cost and schedule risk analysis.
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and managing project risk registers.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and mitigate project risks.
  • Experience developing risk mitigation strategies and tracking corrective actions.
  • Strong understanding of project cost, schedule, engineering, procurement, and execution processes.
  • Experience collaborating with project managers, engineering teams, project controls teams, and functional stakeholders.
  • Ability to analyze complex data, identify risk trends, and communicate impacts to senior leadership.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
  • Experience with risk-management tools, project controls systems, scheduling tools, or data-analysis software.
  • Ability to facilitate risk workshops, stakeholder meetings, and executive-level risk reviews.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced degree or professional certification in Risk Management, Project Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
  • Professional certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), or equivalent.
  • Experience supporting large-scale engineering, infrastructure, technology, research, or industrial projects.
  • Experience with quantitative risk analysis tools and Monte Carlo simulation methodologies.
  • Experience integrating risk management with cost, schedule, and earned-value management processes.
  • Experience supporting major capital projects or complex technical programs.
  • Experience developing executive dashboards, risk reports, and decision-support materials.
  • Familiarity with industry-standard project risk-management frameworks and best practices.
  • Experience with enterprise risk-management, project controls, scheduling, or cost-management platforms.
  • Experience leading cross-functional risk workshops and senior management risk reviews.
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