Senior Risk Manager

Turner & Townsend; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & dental benefits

RRSP matching

Learning & development budget

Professional membership allowance

Generous vacation and flex days

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Risk Lead in Calgary to lead enterprise risk management across major projects in energy and infrastructure. You will drive end-to-end risk processes, develop plans, and facilitate workshops with diverse stakeholders to ensure proactive risk response and governance.

The role emphasizes integrating risk with cost and schedule controls, delivering QCRA/QSRA, mentoring teams, and advancing client risk capabilities while working in a collaborative hybrid

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years post-graduate experience on major projects, energy/natural resources and infrastructure.
• Multi-disciplinary experience in program management or program and project controls.
• Strong knowledge of risk modeling and familiarity with risk software.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of best practice risk management activities and report to the Director of Risk Management and Head of Department.
• Lead end-to-end risk management across multiple projects/programs.
• Create risk management plans and processes per client requirements and frameworks.
• Lead workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
• Conduct risk reviews, identify, analyze, and determine response plans.
• Lead and deliver comprehensive schedule and cost qualitative risk assessments (QCRA & QSRA).
• Integrate risk management with cost, schedule, change control and reporting.
• Develop risk response strategies and monitor risk profiles.
• Foster knowledge transfer within the risk team and client organization.
• Review lessons learned to improve risk identification and project knowledge.

Skills

Risk management

Workshops

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Project controls

Leadership

Risk modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (Engineering/Construction/Risk)

Professional risk certifications (AACE-DRMP or PMI-RMP)

Master's degree

Tools

Safran

ARM

@Risk

Oracle PRA

Crystal Ball

Job 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 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. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

As Senior Risk Lead, you will be involved in:

• Ensure the delivery of best practice risk management activities and report to the Director of Risk Management and Head of Department.


• Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of the risk management service to the client.


• Undertake end-to-end project risk management practice on multiple projects/programs.


• Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies and frameworks.


• Deep knowledge and experience with risk identification, interviews, workshop facilitation and techniques.


• Lead workshops with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.


• 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 conduct a comprehensive schedule and cost qualitative risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.


• Establish integration of the risk management function within the program, with direct touch points to key functions i.e. cost management, schedule management, change control and reporting.


• Develop risk response strategies and maintain risk mitigation process.


• Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project \\ teams to eliminate redundancies and identify opportunities for improvement.


• Facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team and to the client organization.


• Review and hold Lesson Learned workshops to improve risk identification and increase knowledge of the project to various stakeholders.


• Work in a collaborative & integrated environment with likeminded risk professionals.


• Experienced in drafting process and procedures tailored for the clients’ needs and requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years post-graduate experience working on major projects preferably in Energy and Natural Resources and infrastructure with minimum last 5 years directly in Program/Project Risk Management


• Multi-Disciplinary functional and project experience within a Program Management or Program and Project Controls, Project Services


• Strong knowledge of risk modeling and familiar with Risk Softwares such as Safran, ARM, @Risk, Oracle PRA, Crystall Ball,…


• Has conducted risk management training sessions


• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Engineering, Construction Management, Risk Management).


• Professional qualifications in risk management (e.g., AACE-DRMP or PRMP, PMI-RMP, ARM, or equivalent) or project management (e.g., PMP) are highly desirable.


• Master’s Degree is an asset.

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

• 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)


• Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program


• RRSP option with company matching


• Annual learning and development budget


• Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth


• Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role


• Comprehensive package of Vacation days, flex days and sick days.


• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives


• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

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

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