Senior Risk Manager

Flexton Inc.; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexton Inc. seeks an experienced risk management professional to lead risk identification, assessment, and mitigation for large, technically complex capital projects.

You will coordinate across engineering, construction, procurement, and operations to maintain an integrated risk framework and ensure timely executive reporting. The role demands strong analytical writing and presentation skills, plus the ability to challenge assumptions while maintaining constructive working relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline; 8+ years in project risk management or controls.
• Experience leading risk management for large, technically complex capital projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews.
• Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and mitigation actions.
• Experience performing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulations and contingency assessment.
• Experience integrating risk info with IMS, cost estimates, EAC, change control, and reporting.
• Proven ability to defend methodologies and assumptions before senior management or reviewers.
• Experience working across technical, project-management, controls, procurement, construction, and operations teams.
• Strong analytical writing, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Preferred familiarity with DOE capital asset projects and earned-value systems.
• Advanced degree or professional certification in risk management or project controls.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative cost & schedule risk

Monte Carlo simulations

Executive communication

Risk workshops & reviews

Integrated Master Schedule integration

Risk ownership & mitigations

Data analysis & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Safran Risk Manager

Job description

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline, and at least eight years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, or management of complex capital projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading or administering risk management for a large, technically complex capital project, construction program, scientific facility, infrastructure program, aerospace or defense program, or comparable high-consequence undertaking.
• Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews.
• Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and mitigation actions.
• Experience performing or directing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, estimate uncertainty, schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence-level assessment.
• Experience integrating risk information with an Integrated Master Schedule, cost estimate, Estimate at Completion, change-control process, and project performance reporting.
• Experience producing executive-level risk assessments and defending methodology, assumptions, and results before senior management or independent reviewers.
• Experience working across technical, project-management, project-controls, procurement, construction, operations, and institutional support organizations.
• Strong analytical writing, presentation, facilitation, and executive-communication skills.
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• Ability to challenge unsupported assumptions, raise unfavorable information, and elevate material concerns while maintaining constructive working relationships.
• Strong records-management and configuration-control discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a DOE Order 413.3B capital asset project or comparable federally governed major project.
• Working knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A or comparable capital-project risk management guidance.
• Experience with Safran Risk Manager and Safran Risk.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Familiarity with earned-value systems and EVMS concepts.
• Experience supporting a project rebaseline, baseline deviation, recovery plan, independent cost estimate, external review, or major corrective-action effort.
• Experience with accelerator facilities, scientific user facilities, installation-intensive projects, industrial construction, aerospace, defense, or other highly integrated technical programs.
• Professional certification such as PMI Risk Management Professional, Project Management Professional, AACE certification, or equivalent.
• Advanced degree in a relevant technical, analytical, or management discipline.

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