Senior Project Risk Leader — High-Impact Capital Projects

International Executive Service Corps; Berkeley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectra Tech in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead and continuously improve the ALS-U integrated risk-management program. The role involves identifying, assessing, and reporting threats and opportunities across scope, cost, schedule, and technical performance, in alignment with DOE guidance and project plans.

You will coordinate with project leadership, risk owners, and review committees, develop risk strategies, and ensure timely escalation and governance of risk actions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management or related field and 8+ years of risk-management experience.
• Experience leading risk management for a large, technically complex project or program.
• Experience maintaining project risk registers and facilitating risk workshops.
• Experience performing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis and Monte Carlo simulations.
• Experience integrating risk information with schedule, cost estimates and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the ALS-U Risk Management Plan and risk taxonomy.
• Maintain the project risk register and governance records.
• Provide independent risk assessments to project leadership and reviews.
• Develop risk statements with clear causality, condition, and consequences.
• Facilitate risk reviews and risk-management board activities.
• Track mitigation actions, ownership, and due dates; escalate unresolved risks.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Stakeholder communication

Executive-level reporting

Project controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Safran Risk Manager

Primavera P6

Job description

Spectra Tech in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead and continuously improve the ALS-U integrated risk-management program. The role involves identifying, assessing, and reporting threats and opportunities across scope, cost, schedule, and technical performance, in alignment with DOE guidance and project plans.

You will coordinate with project leadership, risk owners, and review committees, develop risk strategies, and ensure timely escalation and governance of risk actions