# Risk Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Las Vegas, NV
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,780-160,100/year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Risk Manager to join our Project Controls team. This individual can be based out of either our Portland OR or Las Vegas NV locations.

As a Risk Manager, you will act as the risk management subject matter expert on assigned projects, programs, or portfolios, accountable for risk management performance. Your responsibilities include:

- Developing effective risk management frameworks and strategies

- Planning, designing, and implementing risk management processes tailored to client needs and aligned with best practices

- Facilitating structured discussions and workshops to elicit assumptions, quantify uncertainty, and validate economic risk drivers

- Developing and maintaining project and/or program risk registers

- Developing and maintaining quantitative economic risk models

- Conducting quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis

- Analyzing economic drivers of project risk

- Preparing economic risk assessments, forecasts, and scenario analyses

- Advising project leadership on risk-adjusted contingency and schedule reserve ranges

- Preparing project and/or program risk reports

- Supporting project teams in developing and implementing response plans for critical risks

- Providing training to junior risk managers and other staff

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Economics, Finance, or a relevant field

- 7-10 years of experience in risk management, construction management, project management, and/or contract or change management

- Knowledge of general risk management and project control standards and frameworks

- Experience in facilitating quantitative risk analysis workshops

- Experience in conceptualizing and developing risk models

- Working knowledge of cost risk analysis software and schedule risk analysis software

- Experience in development and management of diverse teams

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety

Preferred qualifications include:

- Engineering/Economics/Project Controls Management background

- Experience in multiple sectors

- PMP, PMI-RMP or other certification

- Experience in effectively reporting and communicating risk analysis outcomes

- Experience in Strategic and/or Enterprise Risk Management

- Knowledge and understanding of Federal, state, and local transportation administration regulations and policies

- Practical Knowledge of Power BI and other reporting suite tools

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation; paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

The expected salary range for this position is $130,780-160,100 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- construction management
- project management
- quantitative risk analysis
- cost risk analysis
- schedule risk analysis
- risk modeling
- team management

### Nice to have
- Engineering/Economics/Project Controls Management background
- multiple sectors experience
- PMP
- PMI-RMP
- Strategic and/or Enterprise Risk Management
- Power BI

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