Senior Project Risk Manager – Capital Construction

Financeroles; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Financeroles is seeking a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead the risk-management program for a large-scale capital construction project in Berkeley, CA. You will serve as the principal advisor on risk, delivering independent assessments of threats and opportunities across scope, cost, schedule, and technical milestones.

You will build and maintain risk registers, run workshops, perform Monte Carlo analyses, and provide monthly executive briefings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction/project management, business, economics, math, statistics, or related.
• 8+ years in project risk management, controls, estimating, scheduling, or complex capital projects.
• Experience leading risk management on a large, technically complex capital/infrastructure/scientific/aerospace program.
• Experience with risk registers, workshops, senior-level reviews, and mitigation tracking.
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, uncertainty/sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence assessment.
• Experience integrating risk data with schedules, cost estimates, EAC, and change control.
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Risk Management Plan, taxonomy, and governance cadence; facilitate the Risk Management Board; maintain the risk register.
• Run risk workshops and reviews across technical, procurement, staffing, and commissioning areas; develop well-supported risk statements; spot cross-cutting and compounding risks.
• Build and maintain cost/schedule risk models; run Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity and scenario analysis; assess contingency adequacy; support rebaselines and funding decisions.
• Help owners build measurable mitigation plans; track commitments and elevate stalled or ineffective actions.
• Assess critical-path risk, vendor/staffing/funding exposure, and external dependencies.
• Deliver monthly reports and executive briefings; maintain auditable risk records.
• Develop risk-management training and quality standards; benchmark against industry practices

Skills

Risk management

Monte Carlo simulation

Data analysis

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Cost integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction/project management, business, economics, math, statistics, or related

Tools

Primavera P6

EVMS

Job description

Financeroles is seeking a Senior Project Risk Manager to lead the risk-management program for a large-scale capital construction project in Berkeley, CA. You will serve as the principal advisor on risk, delivering independent assessments of threats and opportunities across scope, cost, schedule, and technical milestones.

You will build and maintain risk registers, run workshops, perform Monte Carlo analyses, and provide monthly executive briefings.