Risk Manager – Aviation

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

📋 Description

• Prepare and assist in the ongoing risk reporting and escalation to the PMO and program leadership.

• Integrate inputs from various workstreams to emphasize critical risks, overarching issues, and insights relevant to decision-making.

• Create succinct risk briefings for program leadership and clients, encompassing conclusions, options, recommendations, and supporting analyses.

• Facilitate the identification and intake of risks across technical, construction, and delivery workstreams.

• Confirm risks with the respective workstream leads and document sources and dates of validation.

• Manage and coordinate risk registers at the project, package, and program levels.

• Assist project teams in identifying, mitigating, and escalating risks as needed.

• Develop and uphold escalation criteria and risk reporting cadence within the Risk Management Plan.

• Monitor trigger points for threats and opportunities, risk cost profiling, risk budget drawdown, and the retirement of threats or opportunities.

• Oversee overall risk exposure and the remaining risk budget.

• Collaborate with teams to evaluate risk ownership, dependencies, and program impacts.

• Conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments, including QCRA and QSRA.

• Lead the delivery of comprehensive cost and schedule risk assessments.

• Review and enhance risk management services provided to the client.

• Execute end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects and programs.

• Develop and sustain risk management plans and processes.

• Conduct regular risk reviews, analyze risks, determine response strategies, and monitor risk profiles.

• Integrate risk management with project controls, cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting mechanisms.

• Collaborate with the Safety Lead to effectively manage hazards that impact cost or schedule.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer of risk management practices to the risk team, project controls team, and client organization.

• Aid in identifying and communicating schedule performance risks and planning for recovery.

• Comply with relevant SOX control responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Public Trust security clearance.

• Successful completion of the Public Trust investigation is necessary.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related construction field.

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.

• Experience in construction project procurement and contract management is essential.

• Familiarity with Program Management or Program Controls environments is preferred.

• Understanding of construction delivery methods and project execution practices is important.

• Strong communication, analytical, facilitation, and negotiation abilities are required.

• In-depth knowledge of construction delivery methods, contracts, and commercial models is essential.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and process improvement, are needed.

• Familiarity with ARM, Kahua, Tableau, or similar web-based database and reporting tools is preferred.

• Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments involving owners, integrators, PMOs, and contractors is necessary.

• Ability to work effectively as processes, tools, and governance evolve.

• Preferred: experience supporting federal programs or projects.

• Preferred: experience coordinating with or supporting a prime contractor.

• Preferred: experience in FAA, airport, aviation, or similarly complex regulated environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities.

• A healthy, productive, and flexible work environment.

• Support for work-life balance.

• An equal opportunity and inclusive workplace.

• The chance to influence change and have your voice heard.

• No recruitment fees are charged to candidates.