Risk & Change Manager

Hut8; Miami (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Hut 8 is seeking a Risk & Change Manager to own risk registers and drive mitigation for a major data center build. You will lead the change order process, support negotiations, and ensure contracts are managed to minimize disputes.

The role requires disciplined documentation, experience with GMP/EPC contracts, and the ability to work across GC/EPC and vendor agreements. Significant travel to project sites will be required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in project controls, commercial management, contract administration, or risk/change roles on major capital projects.
• Strong contract literacy across GMP, lump sum, and EPC forms - entitlement, notice provisions, and change mechanics.
• Experience running quantified risk registers (Monte Carlo exposure a plus) with real mitigation ownership.
• Change order lifecycle depth: identification, pricing review, negotiation support, and execution.
• Claims-awareness: you build the record before you need it.
• Construction cost fundamentals sufficient to challenge contractor pricing credibly.
• Data center, power, or heavy industrial project background preferred.
• Precise, disciplined documentation and unemotional negotiation support style.

Responsibilities

• Own the project risk register end to end with structured identification, probability/impact quantification, and mitigation plans.
• Run the change process across contracts: early identification, logging, pricing review, and entitlement assessment.
• Support negotiations with independent pricing checks, productivity review, and settlement recommendations.
• Monitor contract notices, time-bar clauses, and documentation to prevent disputes or win them if needed.
• Feed risk exposure ranges and forecast changes into monthly cost reports to reflect reality.
• Develop Hut 8's risk and change playbook with templates, thresholds, and approval matrices.

Skills

Project controls

Contract literacy

Risk registers

Change management

Claims awareness

Construction cost fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction, quantity surveying, or related field

Job description

ABOUT HUT 8

Imagine the ultimate destination for those who want to work at the cutting edge of technology, energy, and infrastructure. Hut8 is on a mission to build and operate some of the world’s largest data centers for next-generation computing workloads, including AI, Colocation, Cloud, and Bitcoin Mining. We are proud to offer interesting and challenging opportunities for individuals who want to build teams, solve problems, and make an impact from day one. If you’re an ambitious individual looking for a career that is as rewarding as it is challenging, you’ve come to the right place.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Risk & Change Manager maintains the project risk register and drives mitigation ownership, and manages the change order process from identification through approval for a data center build. On a fast program, unmanaged risk becomes unbudgeted change - this role runs the discipline that keeps surprises small, priced, and decided on purpose.

Some of the key responsibilities you should expect are the following:

Risk Management

Own the project risk register end to end: structured identification workshops, probability/impact quantification with cost and schedule ranges, mitigation plans with named owners and dates, and monthly risk reviews that actually retire risks rather than admire them. Escalate top exposures to program leadership with clear asks.

Change Identification & Control

Run the change process across GC/EPC and vendor contracts: early identification of potential changes from RFIs, field conditions, and design evolution; change notice logging; scope/pricing review; and entitlement assessment against contract terms before commercial posture is set.

Negotiation & Resolution Support

Support the PM and supply chain in change negotiations: independent pricing checks, productivity and quantum review, and settlement recommendations. Keep the change log current from identification through executed change order.

Contract Compliance & Claims Avoidance

Monitor notice requirements, time-bar clauses, and documentation obligations across contracts. Build the contemporaneous record - directives, delay notices, photos, meeting minutes - that prevents disputes or wins them if they come.

Cost & Forecast Integration

Feed risk exposure ranges and pending-change forecasts into the Cost Controller's monthly report so the forecast reflects reality, not just executed commitments.

Process & Standards

Build Hut 8's risk and change playbook: templates, thresholds, approval matrices, and lessons learned applied across the program.

ABOUT YOU

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years in project controls, commercial management, contract administration, or risk/change roles on major capital projects.
• Strong contract literacy across GMP, lump sum, and EPC forms - entitlement, notice provisions, and change mechanics.
• Experience running quantified risk registers (Monte Carlo exposure a plus) with real mitigation ownership.
• Change order lifecycle depth: identification, pricing review, negotiation support, and execution.
• Claims-awareness: you build the record before you need it.
• Construction cost fundamentals sufficient to challenge contractor pricing credibly.
• Data center, power, or heavy industrial project background preferred.
• Precise, disciplined documentation and unemotional negotiation support style.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction, quantity surveying, or related field; site travel as needed (15-25%).

ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

This role can be based full-time at the project site or out of our Miami headquarters. Miami-based employees should expect frequent travel to the project site, including extended periods on-site as project needs require.

WHAT MAKES HUT 8 A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

Hut 8 offers a benefits and wellness program that includes medical, dental, vision, life, andshort-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off.We are proud to invest in building the best team in the industry. At all levels of the organization,we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, radical transparency, and relentless growth mentality.

At Hut 8, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgroundsincluding software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investmentbanking, private equity, and management consulting
• Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership teamconsisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives and backed by a board ofdirectors consisting of industry veterans of energy, finance, and government
• Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve issteep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team
• Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edgeintersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure