Senior Project Risk Manager

Senior Project Risk Manager

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Risk Manager to join a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, supporting the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) Project. ALS-U is a DOE capital project that will upgrade the Laboratory's Advanced Light Source — a 1.9 GeV storage ring operating at 500 mA — with a multibend achromat lattice design, producing a soft x-ray source 100 to 1,000 times brighter than what is available today.

In this role you will lead, administer, and continuously improve the ALS-U integrated risk-management program, covering technical, cost, schedule, procurement, installation, operational, organizational, and external risks and opportunities. You will provide independent, objective, decision-ready risk information to Project leadership, working 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 is performed in accordance with DOE Order 413.3B, DOE risk-management guidance, the approved ALS-U Project Execution Plan, the ALS-U Risk Management Plan, and applicable Laboratory policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and administer the project risk-management program: maintain the Risk Management Plan, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence, and serve as the principal project advisor on risk-management matters.
• Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records, documenting risk ownership, affected Work Breakdown Structure elements, triggers, handling strategies, mitigation actions, due dates, retirement criteria, and residual exposure.
• Facilitate the Risk Management Board, focused risk reviews, project-wide risk workshops, subsystem risk reviews, schedule-risk sessions, lessons-learned reviews, and targeted risk deep dives.
• Develop and maintain integrated cost and schedule risk-analysis models; perform Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity and scenario analysis, estimate- and schedule-uncertainty analysis, risk correlation, and confidence-level assessment.
• 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 reconcile modeled exposure against available contingency, realized risks, retired risks, emerging threats, and approved baseline changes.
• Assist risk owners in developing specific, measurable, time-phased, and adequately resourced mitigation plans; track commitments and identify overdue, stalled, or ineffective actions.
• Conduct forward-looking assessments of critical-path and near-critical-path work, vendor-delivery exposure, staffing constraints, funding scenarios, technical interfaces, installation sequencing, and commissioning readiness.
• Monitor external dependencies including DOE actions, funding profiles, regulatory approvals, tariffs, supply-chain conditions, institutional commitments, and labor availability.
• Prepare monthly risk reports and executive-level briefings for Project leadership, Laboratory management, DOE representatives, and review committees; support baseline-change proposals, recovery plans, independent cost reviews, and DOE reviews.
• Develop and deliver role-based risk-management training, establish quality checks for risk statements and mitigation plans, and benchmark practices against DOE capital-project experience and recognized standards.
• Escalate material concerns when risk information is not maintained, mitigation actions are not progressing, exposure is increasing, or project decisions are inconsistent with the documented risk posture.

Required Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline, and at least eight (8) 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.

Top Skills & Requirements

• 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 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 developing and maintaining project risk registers.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews.
• Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and…