Enterprise Risk Manager

Responsibilities Join Peraton in advancing the safety, efficiency, and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the FAA's Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) contract. As a trusted partner to the Federal Aviation Administration, Peraton helps deliver the systems and services that keep our nation's skies safe and connected. We're looking for innovative professionals who thrive in mission-critical environments and are passionate about shaping the future of air traffic management.

This is your chance to make an impact on one of the world's most vital transportation infrastructures, working alongside leaders in aviation, engineering, data science, and systems integration.

At Peraton, you won't just support the mission - you'll define it.

Successful aviation programs depend on proactive risk management, disciplined oversight, and strong analytical insight. Peraton is seeking an Enterprise Risk Manager to lead enterprise risk, opportunity, and issue management activities supporting high-visibility programs aligned with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This position is ideal for a professional who excels at analyzing complex program environments, identifying cross-program and systemic risk, anticipating potential challenges, and guiding teams toward proactive, strategic solutions.

The successful candidate will combine enterprise risk-management expertise with strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and practical knowledge of Safety Risk Management (SRM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM). The role requires the ability to move beyond individual program risk registers to identify emerging trends, correlated and cascading risks, schedule and resource conflicts, supplier and technical dependencies, and other enterprise-level conditions that could affect mission delivery.

Work Location:

This position is 100% on-site in Herndon, VA. Candidates must be able to work on-site in Herndon based on program requirements.

Your Impact:

In this role, you will establish and maintain the framework that identifies potential threats, uncovers opportunities, and ensures program and enterprise risks are recognized and mitigated before they impact mission delivery. You will work closely with program leadership, engineering teams, schedulers, safety professionals, supply-chain stakeholders, and operational teams to implement structured, data-informed risk management processes that support operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and executive decision-making.

Enterprise Risk Management Develop and maintain the Risk, Opportunity, and Issue Management Plan across program portfolios.

Establish and manage enterprise risk registers, risk taxonomies, escalation criteria, and tracking mechanisms.

Identify potential risks and opportunities affecting program performance, cost, schedule, technical execution, safety, resources, supply chain, and operations.

Conduct risk impact assessments, probability analyses, and other quantitative and qualitative analyses to support informed decision-making.

Identify cross-program dependencies, systemic risks, risk concentrations, common-cause risks, and potential cascading impacts across the enterprise.

Distinguish program-level issues from risks requiring enterprise visibility, escalation, mitigation, or leadership action.

Safety Risk Management (SRM) & Operational Risk Management (ORM)
Apply SRM and ORM principles to identify hazards, operational risks, controls, mitigations, and residual risk.

Support structured evaluation of likelihood, severity, consequence, exposure, and operational impact.

Integrate safety and operational risk considerations with broader enterprise program, schedule, technical, resource, and supply-chain risks.

Work with safety, engineering, operational, and program stakeholders to validate risk statements, assumptions, controls, and mitigation effectiveness.

Governance & Compliance Enforce risk management policies aligned with federal regulations, agency guidance, contractual requirements, and program governance.

Ensure compliance with program governance frameworks and applicable regulatory standards.

Support program leadership during internal reviews, audits, compliance assessments, and executive governance forums.

Promote consistent risk definitions, scoring, escalation, ownership, documentation, and closure criteria across the portfolio.

Risk Mitigation & Strategic Planning Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, contingency plans, corrective…