ASKUSR0144628 Senior Project Risk Manager

Senior Project Risk Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Risk Manager to support the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U), a major technically complex capital project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California.

The Senior Project Risk Manager will lead and administer the project's integrated risk-management program, providing senior leadership with independent, objective, and decision-ready information regarding technical, cost, schedule, procurement, installation, operational, organizational, and external project risks and opportunities.

This role requires significant experience managing risk within large capital projects, scientific facilities, infrastructure programs, construction programs, aerospace/defense programs, or similarly complex technical environments.

The position is expected to be performed primarily on-site at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory due to frequent interaction with project leadership, technical teams, Project Controls, Control Account Managers (CAMs), functional leads, and risk owners. Limited remote work may be authorized for appropriate analytical and documentation activities.

• Lead and administer the integrated project risk-management program.
• Maintain and periodically update the Risk Management Plan, supporting procedures, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance processes.
• Maintain the project risk register and associated configuration-controlled records.
• Serve as a senior advisor to project leadership regarding risk-management matters.
• Facilitate Risk Management Board meetings, risk workshops, focused reviews, and risk deep dives.
• Identify and escalate unresolved, inadequately managed, or increasing project risks.
• Ensure risk assumptions, ownership, mitigation commitments, and decisions are clearly documented and traceable.

• Facilitate project-wide and subsystem-level risk-identification activities.
• Develop high-quality risk statements identifying causal events, affected conditions, and potential consequences.
• Evaluate technical, schedule, cost, procurement, vendor, installation, commissioning, staffing, logistics, funding, and external risks.
• Identify systemic, cross-cutting, correlated, and compounding risks across the program.
• Maintain complete and current risk information within Safran Risk Manager or another approved risk-management system.
• Reconcile risk assumptions with project schedules, cost estimates, procurement plans, technical maturity, staffing plans, and change-control activities.

• Develop and maintain integrated quantitative cost and schedule risk-analysis models.
• Perform Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity analyses, scenario analyses, estimate-uncertainty analyses, schedule-uncertainty analyses, and confidence-level assessments.
• Evaluate probability distributions, cost and schedule impacts, correlation assumptions, mitigation assumptions, and risk-retirement timing.
• Coordinate with Project Controls to integrate risks with Primavera P6 schedules, milestones, cost estimates, control accounts, critical paths, schedule margin, and contingency forecasts.
• Assess cost and schedule contingency adequacy.
• Analyze and communicate principal risk drivers, assumptions, limitations, sensitivities, and changes in project exposure.
• Support baseline changes, recovery plans, acceleration strategies, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, and external reviews.

• Assist risk owners with development of specific, measurable, time-phased mitigation plans.
• Track mitigation commitments, trigger conditions, milestones, due dates, effectiveness measures, and residual exposure.
• Identify overdue, stalled, ineffective, or inadequately resourced mitigation actions.
• Evaluate whether mitigation strategies are likely to reduce probability and/or impact as intended.
• Maintain accountability and visibility regarding overall project risk posture.

• Prepare concise, defensible monthly risk reports and executive-level briefings.
• Present risk information to project leadership,…