Risk Manager

Job Description

Hill International is seeking a Risk Manager in Berkeley, California

• Maintain and periodically update the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, supporting procedures, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence.
• Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records.
• Serve as the principal project advisor on risk-management matters.
• Provide independent and objective assessments of threats and opportunities affecting project scope, cost, schedule, technical performance, installation readiness, commissioning, and achievement of Key Performance Parameters.
• Facilitate the ALS-U Risk Management Board and focused risk reviews.
• Develop meeting agendas, document decisions, track assigned actions, and elevate unresolved or inadequately managed risks to project leadership.
• Establish and maintain a disciplined risk-management process in which assumptions are explicit, ownership is assigned, mitigation commitments are traceable, and material information is communicated promptly.
• Facilitate project-wide risk workshops, subsystem risk reviews, schedule-risk sessions, lessons-learned reviews, and targeted risk deep dives.
• Participate in technical, procurement, vendor-performance, installation-readiness, commissioning-readiness, staffing, space, logistics, and other project reviews to identify relevant risks and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain risk statements that clearly identify the causal event, affected condition, and potential consequence.
• Ensure risk entries include defensible probability, cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic bases.
• Maintain complete and current risk information in Safran Risk Manager or another LBNL-approved system.
• Document risk ownership, affected Work Breakdown Structure elements, triggers, handling strategies, mitigation actions, due dates, retirement criteria, residual exposure, and supporting rationale.
• Identify cross-cutting, systemic, correlated, and compounding risks that may not be visible within individual control accounts or technical systems.
• Reconcile risk assumptions with the Integrated Master Schedule, Basis of Estimate documentation, procurement plans, technical maturity assessments, staffing plans, change-control actions, funding assumptions, and other project-control records.
• Develop and maintain integrated cost and schedule risk-analysis models using Safran Risk or other LBNL-approved tools.
• Perform Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, estimate-uncertainty analysis, schedule-uncertainty analysis, risk correlation, and confidence-level assessment.
• Evaluate the realism and quality of probability distributions, risk impacts, estimate uncertainty, schedule uncertainty, correlation assumptions, mitigation assumptions, and retirement timing.
• Coordinate with Project Controls to map risk events and mitigation actions to P6 activities, milestones, cost estimates, control accounts, critical and near-critical paths, schedule margin, and contingency forecasts.
• Evaluate cost and schedule contingency adequacy and changes in exposure.
• Reconcile modeled exposure with available contingency, realized risks, retired risks, emerging threats, and approved baseline changes.
• Interpret quantitative results for technical and nontechnical audiences, including principal risk drivers, assumptions, limitations, sensitivity, and changes from prior analyses.
• Support baseline-change proposals, recovery plans, acceleration strategies, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, and DOE reviews.
• Conduct forward-looking assessments of critical-path and near-critical-path work.
• Evaluate vendor-delivery exposure, staffing constraints, funding scenarios, workspace limitations, installation sequencing, technical interfaces, construction readiness, commissioning readiness, and off-project dependencies.
• Assess risks associated with design maturity, procurement performance, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, and transition to operations.
• Evaluate proposed management decisions, baseline changes, recovery strategies, and acceleration scenarios for secondary effects and changes in risk exposure.
• Monitor external dependencies, including DOE actions, funding profiles, regulatory approvals, tariffs, supply-chain conditions, institutional commitments, labor availability, and interfacing organizations.
• Support management assessments and focused analyses requested by project leadership.

Job Description

Hill International is seeking a Risk Manager in Berkeley, California

Responsibilities

• Maintain and periodically update the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, supporting procedures, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence.
• Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records.
• Serve as the principal project advisor on risk-management matters.
• Provide independent and objective assessments of threats and opportunities affecting project scope, cost, schedule, technical performance, installation readiness, commissioning, and…