Project Risk Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Oversee the regional risk management initiative for the EMEA portfolio.

• Implement uniform risk governance, standards, processes, methodologies, and escalation protocols.

• Embed risk management throughout the project lifecycle, collaborating with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, Commissioning, and Operations Readiness.

• Offer independent risk oversight and constructive challenges to project and functional leadership.

• Foster a proactive risk culture emphasizing early identification, ownership, accountability, and prompt escalation.

• Serve as the regional risk management subject matter expert, advising project, regional, and executive leadership.

• Lead the identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and resolution of project risks and opportunities.

• Create, manage, and oversee project risk registers.

• Assess EPC delivery risks in areas such as design, permitting, grid connection, procurement, construction, commercial performance, commissioning, energization, and MW capacity delivery.

• Aggregate and evaluate project risks at the regional level, pinpointing emerging, systemic, correlated, and concentration risks.

• Encourage the identification and realization of project delivery opportunities.

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of cost and schedule risks, including Monte Carlo simulations and schedule risk assessments.

• Evaluate cost exposure, schedule uncertainties, critical-path risks, milestone achievements, and confidence in ready-for-service dates.

• Formulate risk-based suggestions for contingency and management reserves.

• Analyze regional risk drivers, scenarios, and sensitivities to determine portfolio impacts and mitigation priorities.

• Provide risk analysis and insights for investment decisions, stage gates, baseline approvals, and major contract awards.

• Generate executive-level project and regional reports on risks, opportunities, exposures, trends, mitigation strategies, and contingencies.

• Develop project and portfolio risk dashboards and analytics.

• Track and report on mitigation progress, overdue actions, changes in exposure, realized risks, and issues needing escalation.

• Supply risk information for project reviews, leadership meetings, investment decisions, and governance forums.

• Conduct project risk reviews and health assessments.

• Test project assumptions, forecasts, contingency needs, mitigation strategies, and confidence levels.

• Identify cross-project lessons, recurring risks, and systemic vulnerabilities.

• Promote continuous improvement in risk processes, methodologies, tools, analytics, reporting, and organizational capability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant industry experience.

• Extensive experience in risk management, project controls, or project delivery within complex EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, mission-critical, or major capital programs.

• Proven experience in leading project and portfolio risk management, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and assurance.

• Strong grasp of cost, schedule, contingency, and project controls principles, and their integration with project risk management.

• Experience applying quantitative risk analysis and probabilistic techniques to assess project cost and schedule uncertainties.

• Advanced skills in Monte Carlo simulations, cost and schedule risk assessments, scenario analysis, and risk-based contingency development.

• In-depth understanding of EPC contracting, procurement, supply chain, change management, claims, and commercial risks.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and constructively challenge senior project and functional leaders in a dynamic, fast-paced project environment.

• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk data into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.

• Ability to recognize systemic and correlated risks across multiple projects and provide regional insights.

• Experience in delivering hyperscale, AI, mission-critical, or large-scale data center programs (preferred).

• Familiarity with enterprise or project risk management platforms and their integration with scheduling, cost management, and reporting systems (preferred).

• Relevant professional certifications such as PMI-RMP, PMP, APM, AACE International, IRM, or equivalent (preferred).

• Working knowledge of ISO 31000, PMBOK, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001 (preferred).

• Experience presenting portfolio risk, contingency, schedule confidence, and emerging exposures to executive leadership and governance committees (preferred).

• Proficiency with @Risk, Riskonnect, Safran, or other industry-standard software (preferred).

• Successful completion of pre-employment screening, including right-to-work verification, employment history checks, and criminal record verification where permitted by law.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, providing you with the chance to participate in the company's long-term success.

• Retirement/pension contributions.

• Comprehensive health, wellness, and insurance benefits.

• Generous vacation days each year.

• Discretionary bonus opportunities.

• Flexible and supportive work environment with opportunities for career growth and development.

• Global team benefits that vary by country due to local regulations.