Senior Project Risk Lead for High-Impact Science (Hybrid)

Bay Systems Consulting, Inc. (BSC); Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 248,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead integrated risk management for the ALS-U project. You will collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, and DOE to ensure informed, timely decisions.

Responsibilities include leading risk program, maintaining risk register, conducting workshops, Monte Carlo analyses, integrating with Primavera P6, and delivering executive briefings. This is a 1-year on-site contract with hybrid/remote options.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, Economics, Statistics, or related field — or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience managing risk for large, technically complex capital, infrastructure, scientific, aerospace, defense, or industrial projects.
• Strong experience with risk registers, risk workshops, mitigation planning, and executive-level risk reporting.
• Advanced quantitative risk-analysis experience including Monte Carlo simulation, cost/schedule uncertainty, and contingency confidence levels.
• Experience integrating risk with Integrated Master Schedules, cost estimates, EAC, change control, and project performance reporting.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, communicate difficult information, and elevate material risks while maintaining strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ALS-U enterprise project risk-management program and maintain the project risk register.
• Facilitate risk workshops, Risk Management Board meetings, deep dives, and senior-level risk reviews.
• Identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and escalate technical, cost, schedule, procurement, installation, commissioning, staffing, and external risks.
• Develop and maintain quantitative cost and schedule risk models.
• Perform Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, uncertainty analysis, and contingency assessments.
• Integrate risk with Primavera P6, cost estimates, control accounts, critical-path activities, contingency, and project forecasts.
• Challenge assumptions, evaluate mitigation effectiveness, identify emerging risks, and ensure accountability for risk-response actions.
• Prepare executive-level risk reports, briefings, and decision-support materials for project leadership, Laboratory management, DOE, and external review committees.
• Support rebaselines, recovery plans, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, DOE reviews, and major project decisions.
• Continuously improve risk processes, tools, reporting, training, and governance.

Skills

Risk management

Project controls

Cost/schedule management

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

Facilitation

Presentation skills

Risk reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Advanced degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Safran Risk Manager

Job description

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead integrated risk management for the ALS-U project. You will collaborate with senior leadership, engineering, and DOE to ensure informed, timely decisions.

Responsibilities include leading risk program, maintaining risk register, conducting workshops, Monte Carlo analyses, integrating with Primavera P6, and delivering executive briefings. This is a 1-year on-site contract with hybrid/remote options.