Aviation Enterprise Risk Leader (SRM & ORM)

Peraton; Herndon, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Herndon, VA, is seeking an Enterprise Risk Manager to lead risk, opportunity, and issue management for FAA BNATCS programs. You will establish enterprise risk processes, metrics, and governance, guiding cross-functional teams to anticipate threats and improve mission resilience.

You will apply SRM and ORM concepts, develop risk dashboards, and support executive decision-making, with on-site work in a mission-critical federal program environment.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship Required.
• Must have ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, or Master’s with 10 years, or Associate with 14 years, or HS diploma with 16 years.
• Significant experience supporting enterprise risk management, program risk management, operational risk, safety risk, or complex program integration.
• Demonstrated knowledge and practical application of Safety Risk Management (SRM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM) concepts and methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience identifying systemic, cross-cutting, and cross-program risks across complex programs, portfolios, or interconnected systems.
• Experience conducting risk likelihood, consequence, impact, trend, and mitigation-effectiveness analyses.
• Experience developing executive-level risk assessments, dashboards, briefings, and recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate discussions with technical subject matter experts and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Risk, Opportunity, and Issue Management Plan across program portfolios.
• Establish and manage enterprise risk registers, risk taxonomies, escalation criteria, and tracking mechanisms.
• Identify potential risks and opportunities affecting program performance, cost, schedule, technical execution, safety, resources, supply chain, and operations.
• Conduct risk impact assessments, probability analyses, and other quantitative and qualitative analyses to support informed decision-making.
• Identify cross-program dependencies, systemic risks, risk concentrations, common-cause risks, and potential cascading impacts across the enterprise.
• Distinguish program-level issues from risks requiring enterprise visibility, escalation, mitigation, or leadership action.
• Apply SRM and ORM principles to identify hazards, operational risks, controls, mitigations, and residual risk.
• Support structured evaluation of likelihood, severity, consequence, exposure, and operational impact.
• Integrate safety and operational risk considerations with broader enterprise program, schedule, technical, resource, and supply-chain risks.
• Work with safety, engineering, operational, and program stakeholders to validate risk statements, assumptions, controls, and mitigation effectiveness.
• Enforce risk management policies aligned with federal regulations, agency guidance, contractual requirements, and program governance.
• Ensure compliance with program governance frameworks and applicable regulatory standards.
• Support program leadership during internal reviews, audits, compliance assessments, and executive governance forums.
• Promote consistent risk definitions, scoring, escalation, ownership, documentation, and closure criteria across the portfolio.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, contingency plans, corrective action plans, and risk response options.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to implement effective risk response strategies.
• Monitor mitigation progress, residual risk, risk acceptance decisions, and timely resolution of issues.
• Identify emerging risks and recommend proactive solutions to prevent operational disruptions or mission impacts.
• Assess the potential effects of schedule convergence, resource contention, supplier constraints, technology dependencies, and other cross-cutting risk drivers.
• Collaborate with program managers, engineers, schedulers, safety professionals, supply-chain teams, and operational stakeholders to identify and manage risks across workstreams.
• Facilitate risk workshops, risk review meetings, and stakeholder validation sessions.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and ensure enterprise risks are supported by defensible evidence and analysis.
• Provide leadership with data-driven insights and recommendations related to program and enterprise risk posture.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, correlations, concentrations, emerging risks, and changes in enterprise exposure.
• Integrate information from risk registers, IMS, technical assessments, operational data, supply-chain information, and stakeholder inputs.
• Develop risk dashboards, heat maps, trend analyses, executive reports, and briefing materials to communicate enterprise risk status.
• Use structured analytical methods such as scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, risk forecasting, and probabilistic techniques to improve decision support.
• Translate complex analytical findings into concise executive-level assessments that clearly communicate risk and required actions.
• Track and analyze mitigation effectiveness and support leadership decision-making through structured risk analysis and forecasting.

Skills

Enterprise risk management

SRM (Safety Risk Management)

ORM (Operational Risk Management)

Cross-program risk identification

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associate’s degree

HS diploma/equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Python

R

SQL

Risk management systems

Schedule-analysis tools

Job description

Peraton in Herndon, VA, is seeking an Enterprise Risk Manager to lead risk, opportunity, and issue management for FAA BNATCS programs. You will establish enterprise risk processes, metrics, and governance, guiding cross-functional teams to anticipate threats and improve mission resilience.

You will apply SRM and ORM concepts, develop risk dashboards, and support executive decision-making, with on-site work in a mission-critical federal program environment.