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.