Commercial Construction Risk Manager

Turner & Townsend; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal candidate has extensive risk management experience on large construction programs, with exposure to data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy sectors.

You will lead risk assessment, reporting, and governance for multiple projects, collaborating with stakeholders and contractors. Responsibilities include developing risk plans, conducting quantitative risk analyses, and integrating risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, or related field.
• Minimum three years of applicable experience on construction projects.
• Experience in program management or program controls environments.
• Deep knowledge of risk identification, facilitation and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of construction contracts and delivery methods.
• Familiarity with ARM, Predict and Tableau tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of risk triggers to profile risk and budget needs.
• Use risk data to inform investment and contingency planning.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and remaining risk budget.
• Collaborate with contractors on risks and client-held risk perspectives.
• Produce timely risk reports for stakeholder communication.
• Perform quantitative risk assessments for cost and schedule.
• Develop and improve risk management processes for the client.
• Lead end-to-end risk management across multiple projects/programs.
• Create risk management plans aligned with client requirements and frameworks.
• Conduct regular risk reviews and update response plans.
• Lead comprehensive risk assessments in cost and schedule terms.
• Integrate risk management with program controls, cost, and schedule.
• Collaborate to eliminate redundancies and identify improvements.
• Share knowledge within risk teams and with the broader client team.
• Value stream map to identify pain points and waste reduction.
• Support supplier performance management with metrics and improvement plans.
• Provide support to expert witnesses in arbitration or litigation processes.
• Lead and manage construction stage contract and claims management.
• Assess contractual claims per contract terms and advise on disputes.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Contract knowledge

Cost & schedule awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management

Tools

ARM

Predict

Tableau

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

Turner & Townsend is looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects. The successful candidate will bring experience supporting the delivery of construction and capital projects within one or more of Turner & Townsend's key markets, including data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy & natural resources. Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams across these sectors is preferred. Responsibilities:

• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
• Work with contractors to assess contractors held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
• Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
• 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.
• Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
• Collaborate on the supplier performance management program including the collection of performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
• Demonstrate a level of support to expert witnesses in arbitral or ligation processes.
• Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
• Carry out assessment of contractual claims in accordance with the contract.
• Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and related resolution issues.
• Carry out change management and construction stage cost control.
• Supervise the measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
• Manage the settlement of final accounts with contractors
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Minimum 3 years of applicable experience
• Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment
• Deep knowledge and experience with risk identification, facilitation and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercial models, and delivery methods.
• Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau
• Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.

Additional Information

On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs

The base salary range for this role is $160K-$170K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

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