Senior Project Risk Manager

Senior Project Risk Manager

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 escalate 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 escalate material risks while maintaining strong working relationships.

Compensation & Contract

$195/hour + Benefits 1-Year Contract with potential for two additional 1-year extensions

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.