Senior Risk Manager

Bay Systems Consulting Inc.; Berkeley (CA); On-site; 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

Senior Project Risk Manager

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA

90/hour + Benefits | 1-Year Contract (Hybrid)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking an accomplished Senior Project Risk Manager to lead integrated risk management for the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) Project.

This is a high-visibility opportunity to work directly with senior project leadership, engineering, project controls, DOE, and technical teams on a complex, nationally significant scientific infrastructure program.

You will provide the insight and analysis leadership needs to make informed, timely, and confident project decisions.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of progressively responsible 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.
• 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, sensitivity analysis, 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 escal... material risks while maintaining strong working relationships.

Preferred

• DOE Order 413.3B capital-project experience.
• Knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A.
• Experience with Safran Risk / Safran Risk Manager.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6.
• EVMS experience.
• Experience with project rebaselines, recovery plans, independent cost estimates, external reviews, or corrective-action programs.
• Experience with particle accelerators, scientific facilities, major infrastructure, aerospace, defense, or highly integrated technical programs.
• PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, or equivalent certification.
• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.

Why This Role?

This isn't simply a risk-management position - it is an opportunity to shape how a major scientific project understands uncertainty, protects contingency, manages critical-path exposure, and makes high-stakes decisions.

If you're a senior risk professional who can move seamlessly between executive strategy, quantitative analysis, project controls, and technical teams, we want to hear from you.