Project Risk Specialist

We are seeking a Project Risk Specialist to support risk management services for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. The selected candidate will lead and support project risk management activities for capital and non‑capital projects across Authority facilities, including risk identification, assessment, quantitative modeling, mitigation planning, reporting, and continuous improvement. This role requires strong technical judgment, effective stakeholder coordination, and the ability to translate cost and schedule risk analysis into clear recommendations that support project authorization, delivery, and oversight.

• Identify, assess, score, and document project risks for capital and non‑capital projects.
• Analyze cost and schedule risks and quantify potential impacts to project delivery.
• Develop, maintain, and quality‑check project risk registers and supporting documentation.
• Use Authority‑standard tools, including Lumivero @Risk for Excel, Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, and Oracle Primavera P6.
• Recommend improvements to risk management procedures, templates, reporting, and analytical processes.

• Compile and review project documentation, including engineering design reports, construction cost estimates, and project schedules.
• Plan risk assessment activities in alignment with project authorization requirements and project delivery milestones.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define workshop participants, subject matter experts, and assessment team composition.
• Develop work plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables for risk assessment activities and reporting.

• Independently review project scope, cost estimates, and schedules for completeness, consistency, and reasonableness.
• Validate alignment among scope, cost, schedule, assumptions, and supporting technical documentation.
• Facilitate coordination sessions with Authority staff to confirm assumptions, inputs, and risk model parameters.
• Develop or refine Primavera P6 schedules, as needed, to support risk modeling and schedule risk analysis.

• Organize and facilitate risk assessment and mitigation workshops with project stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Elicit and document risk likelihood, impact, root causes, triggers, assumptions, and potential responses.
• Facilitate risk scoring, contingency development, and prioritization of cost and schedule impacts.
• Present risk analysis results, mitigation options, and recommendations in clear, decision‑ready formats.
• Provide guidance, training, and mentoring to stakeholders on risk management processes and tools.

• Develop and evaluate mitigation strategies considering cost, schedule, scope, implementation duration, and likelihood of success.
• Support development of actionable mitigation plans, owners, due dates, and follow‑up processes.
• Track mitigation progress and support integration of risk findings into project controls and management reporting.

• Prepare draft and final Project Risk Assessment Reports, including executive summaries, project descriptions, workshop assumptions, risk registers, modeling outputs, contingency results, findings, and recommendations.
• Deliver electronic and hardcopy reports, along with supporting models compatible with @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, and Primavera P6.
• Facilitate lessons learned workshops and prepare reports documenting issue background, successes, challenges, impacts, lessons learned, recommendations, and corrective actions.
• Support publication of lessons learned and ongoing continuous improvement of Authority risk management practices.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification with a technical degree.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience performing project risk assessments.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating risk assessment workshops, performing risk analysis and…