Risk Manager; Risk Register​/Mitigation

Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced Risk Manager to support a major program and construction management team delivering a large, complex industrial infrastructure project.

The Risk Manager will administer the program’s risk and opportunity management process, maintain the risk register, facilitate risk assessments, and coordinate mitigation activities. The selected candidate will work with program leadership, engineering, construction management, project controls, procurement, quality, safety, commissioning, contractors, and Client representatives to identify threats and opportunities early and support informed decision-making.

This position is based near Little Rock, Arkansas and is part of a 4–5 year contract. During the first year, remote work is permitted. After the first year, the selected candidate will be required to either reside within commuting distance of Little Rock, AR or be willing to relocate to the area.

Periodic travel and coordination with program leadership, Client representatives, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and on-site personnel may be required.

• Develop, implement, and maintain the Program Risk and Opportunity Management Plan, procedures, scoring criteria, reporting requirements, and escalation thresholds.
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive risk and opportunity register within the approved PMIS or risk-management platform.
• Ensure risk entries clearly identify causes, potential events, consequences, probability, impact, ownership, mitigation actions, due dates, and residual exposure.
• Facilitate risk workshops, interviews, planning sessions, readiness reviews, and lessons-learned discussions with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Identify and evaluate risks involving design, permitting, procurement, supply chain, construction, cost, schedule, quality, safety, security, commissioning, operations, and contractual performance.
• Coordinate with risk owners to develop practical mitigation strategies, contingency plans, trigger conditions, and measurable completion requirements.
• Monitor mitigation actions, follow up on overdue items, evaluate effectiveness, and recommend additional measures when exposure remains unacceptable.
• Apply consistent qualitative assessment criteria and develop risk heat maps, priority rankings, trend reports, and escalation recommendations.
• Support quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses, including risk-adjusted forecasts, sensitivity analyses, scenario evaluations, and contingency assessments.
• Coordinate risk information with project schedules, cost forecasts, change management, contractor performance, procurement status, and program reporting.
• Distinguish risks from active issues, assumptions, constraints, changes, and decisions and ensure each is managed through the appropriate process.
• Review contractor and consultant risk registers and mitigation plans and elevate significant or cross-cutting exposure to program leadership.
• Administer the opportunity-management process and track potential cost savings, schedule improvements, risk reductions, and other program benefits.
• Develop risk dashboards, key performance indicators, executive summaries, and recurring reports for program leadership and the Client.
• Maintain complete and auditable records of assessments, assumptions, decisions, mitigation plans, approvals, status changes, and closures.
• Provide training and guidance to program personnel regarding risk identification, assessment, mitigation, escalation, and reporting.
• Support audits and program reviews by providing risk registers, analyses, meeting records, mitigation evidence, and related documentation.
• Promote proactive risk identification, transparent reporting, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Work remotely during the first year, with the expectation of residing within commuting distance of Little Rock, Arkansas, or relocating to the area thereafter.
• Support periodic travel and coordination with program leadership, Client representatives, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and on-site personnel.

• Master’s degree and at least seven years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience in risk management, project controls, engineering, construction management, project management, or a related field.
• Experience administering risk management for a large industrial, construction, infrastructure, Federal, or government program.
• Demonstrated experience…