Senior Project Risk Leader (Hybrid)

Bay Systems Consulting Inc.; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Hybrid work

1-year contract

Job summary

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead the ALS-U Project risk management. This 1-year hybrid contract requires expertise in risk governance, quantitative analysis, and integration with project controls and DOE reviews.

You will drive risk workshops, maintain risk models, perform Monte Carlo analyses, and prepare executive-level risk reports for leadership and external review committees, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and informed

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in project risk management, project controls, cost/schedule management, or complex capital projects.
• 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.

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 elevate 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

Enterprise risk management

Risk workshops

Monte Carlo analysis

Primavera P6

Executive risk reporting

Cost/schedule risk analysis

Integrated Master Schedules

Stakeholder communication

Risk modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Safran Risk

Job description

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA seeks a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead the ALS-U Project risk management. This 1-year hybrid contract requires expertise in risk governance, quantitative analysis, and integration with project controls and DOE reviews.

You will drive risk workshops, maintain risk models, perform Monte Carlo analyses, and prepare executive-level risk reports for leadership and external review committees, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and informed