Risk Manager

Spectra Tech has an immediate need for an experienced Senior Project Risk Manager to lead, administer, and continuously improve the ALS-U integrated risk-management program in Berkeley, CA.

The work shall support identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and reporting of technical, cost, schedule, procurement, installation, operational, organizational, and external project risks and opportunities. The Senior Project Risk Manager shall provide independent, objective, and decision-ready risk information to ALS-U Project leadership and shall work closely with the Project Director, Project Manager, Chief Engineer, Technical Project Managers, Project Controls Manager, Control Account Managers, functional leads, risk owners, Laboratory management, the Department of Energy, and external review committees.

The work shall be performed in accordance with applicable requirements and guidance, including DOE Order 413.3B, DOE risk-management guidance, the approved ALS-U Project Execution Plan, the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, and applicable policies and procedures.

• 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 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.

• Assist risk owners in developing specific, measurable, time-phased, and adequately resourced mitigation plans.
• Evaluate whether proposed mitigation actions are likely to reduce probability or impact as intended.
• Track mitigation commitments, trigger conditions, due dates, retirement milestones, effectiveness measures, and residual exposure.
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