Senior Program Risk Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner-; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will oversee risk on major construction programs, developing SOPs, risk frameworks, and governance to drive consistency and value.

Responsibilities include quantitative and qualitative risk assessments, schedule risk analysis, RCA, and proactive risk management across projects. Excellent client-facing skills and collaboration are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Degree in business/admin or engineering/architecture with construction focus.
• Experience in managing large-scale construction programs.
• Experience in design/architecture/civil works and client-facing roles.
• Strong presentation, collaboration and teamwork capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement SOPs, risk frameworks and templates for consistency.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative risk assessments including Monte Carlo.
• Analyze schedules for critical paths, risks and improvements.
• Perform RCA on events, driving corrective actions and governance.

Skills

Presentation skills

Client facing

Team player

Collaboration

Education

College Degree in Business Administration

Construction Management

Engineering

Architecture

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Bluebeam

MS Office Suite

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 includeprogramme, 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 estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsendis looking for aSenior Risk Managerto join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), risk frameworks, templates, and best practices to drive consistency and efficiency across the program.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative risk assessments, including Monte Carlo simulations, Cost Risk Assessments (CRA), and Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) to support contingency planning and schedule confidence analysis.
• Analyze project schedules to identify key schedule drivers, critical path risks, schedule uncertainty, and opportunities for schedule improvement.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on significant risk events, schedule impacts, and recurring program issues, identifying corrective and preventive actions.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of program-wide risk governance, ensuring consistency of risk processes, reporting, and controls across multiple projects.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
• Lead full risk workshop at construction kickoff ensuring integration with general contractor and client team
• Facilitate risk identification workshops with cross-functional stakeholders, e.g., contractor, engineering, construction, commissioning, procurement, project controls.
• Maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are categorized, scored (likelihood x impact), and updated regularly.
• 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.
• Track mitigation actions, assign owners, and monitor progress through to closure.
• 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.
• Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• College Degree in Business Administration,ConstructionManagement, Engineering, Architecture.
• Experience and working in Project Management on large-scaleconstructionprograms.
• Experienced in Design/Architecture/Civil works.
• Solid working proficiency with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and MS Office Suite.
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to be highly effective in a client facing role.
• Team player; ability to work collaboratively.

Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $150K-$170K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients' needs.*

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.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.