Senior Risk Manager

Job Description: Parsons are looking for an exceptionally talented Senior Risk Manager to join their team! The Senior Risk Manager will lead the identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation and monitoring of risks across the Giga Program, with specific responsibility for roads, civil infrastructure and structural works. The role will provide strategic and operational risk leadership across the full program lifecycle, ensuring that risks are effectively managed, quantified, communicated and escalated. The successful candidate will work closely with design, procurement, commercial, construction, engineering, project controls and delivery teams to protect program objectives relating to cost, schedule, scope, quality, safety, compliance and stakeholder outcomes. A key requirement of the role is demonstrated, hands-on experience in quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis and contingency management on major infrastructure, construction or capital investment programs. What You'll Be Doing 1. Risk Management Leadership • Develop, implement and maintain the program risk management strategy, framework, procedures and reporting requirements. • Lead risk management activities across roads, civil infrastructure and structural works packages from concept and design through procurement, construction, testing and handover. • Establish consistent risk management standards across consultants, contractors, designers and delivery partners. • Ensure alignment with corporate, program and project-level risk management requirements. • Provide expert advice to senior leadership on material risks, emerging threats, opportunities and recommended responses. • Embed risk management into program governance, project controls, commercial management, change control and decision-making processes. • Promote a proactive, transparent and no surprises risk culture across the program. 2. Risk Identification and Assessment • Facilitate risk identification workshops, reviews and interviews with project and functional teams. • Identify threats and opportunities associated with: Highways, roads, bridges, tunnels and interchanges. Earthworks, retaining structures, drainage and utilities. Foundations, reinforced concrete, steelwork and other structural systems. Design development, constructability and technical interfaces. Land acquisition, permits, approvals and third-party dependencies. Supply chain, logistics, materials, labour and market conditions. Construction methodology, temporary works and site conditions. Interfaces between infrastructure, buildings, utilities, transport systems and other program assets. • Assess risks using agreed probability, impact, proximity, velocity and confidence criteria. • Review and challenge risk assessments prepared by project teams, consultants and contractors. • Identify systemic, cumulative and interdependent risks across the program. • Ensure risk assumptions, causes, consequences, owners, responses and due dates are clearly documented and maintained. What Required Skills You'll Bring; Essential Qualifications • Bachelor s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, risk management, quantity surveying, finance or a related discipline. • Minimum 15 years Risk Management Experience • Professional qualification or certification in risk management, such as PMI-RMP, IRM, APM Risk Certificate, RIMS-CRMP or equivalent. • Recognized project or program management certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent, is desirable. • Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable. Mandatory Experience • Significant experience in risk management on major infrastructure, construction or capital investment programs. • Experience managing risks associated with roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, earthworks, utilities, civil infrastructure and structural works. • Experience working within complex, multi-project, major capital investment or giga-scale programs. • Demonstrated hands-on experience leading and delivering quantitative cost risk analysis. • Demonstrated hands-on experience leading and delivering quantitative schedule risk analysis. • Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing and managing cost and schedule contingency, management reserves and risk allowances . • Experience establishing contingency and reserve requirements based on quantified risk exposure, confidence levels, estimate maturity and schedule certainty. • Experience monitoring contingency drawdown, consumption, transfers, approvals, remaining exposure and reforecasting requirements. Desirable Experience • Experience on major transportation, urban development, industrial, tourism, energy or mixed-use infrastructure programs. • Experience in a client-side, program management consultant or major contractor environment. • Experience with FIDIC, NEC, EPC, design-and-build or other major infrastructure contracting models. • Experience designing enterprise-wide or portfolio-level contingency and reserve methodologies. • Experience integrating risk management with enterprise project controls, investment governance, funding approvals and assurance processes. • Experience working in a rapidly changing or developing program environment. • Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, @RISK, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Power BI or equivalent tools. Knowledge and Technical Skills • Strong understanding of infrastructure design and construction processes. • Good knowledge of road, civil and structural engineering interfaces. • Understanding of geotechnical, environmental, utilities, temporary works and constructability risks. • Strong knowledge of project controls, including cost, schedule, change, forecasting and earned value principles. • Advanced ability to perform, review, interpret and communicate quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis. • Strong understanding of cost and schedule contingency, management reserves and risk allowances. • Ability to assess the adequacy of risk models, assumptions, data quality and analysis outputs. • Ability to translate technical and quantitative risk information into clear business and program-level impacts. • Ability to understand complex technical information and communicate it to non-technical stakeholders. • Strong report-writing, presentation and data-analysis skills. • Bachelor s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, risk management, quantity surveying, finance or a related discipline. • Minimum 15 years Risk Management Experience • Professional qualification or certification in risk management, such as PMI-RMP, IRM, APM Risk Certificate, RIMS-CRMP or equivalent. • Recognized project or program management certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent, is desirable. • Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable. • Significant experience in risk management on major infrastructure, construction or capital investment programs. • Experience managing risks associated with roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, earthworks, utilities, civil infrastructure and structural works. • Experience working within complex, multi-project, major capital investment or giga-scale programs. • Demonstrated hands-on experience leading and delivering quantitative cost risk analysis. • Demonstrated hands-on experience leading and delivering quantitative schedule risk analysis. • Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing and managing cost and schedule contingency, management reserves and risk allowances . • Experience establishing contingency and reserve requirements based on quantified risk exposure, confidence levels, estimate maturity and schedule certainty. • Experience monitoring contingency drawdown, consumption, transfers, approvals, remaining exposure and reforecasting requirements. • Experience integrating risk registers, quantitative risk models, cost forecasts, schedules, contingency and management reserves. • Experience translating quantified risk exposure into contingency recommendations, management actions, investment decisions and executive-level reporting. • Experience with design, procurement, contracting and construction delivery risks. • Experience managing contractor, consultant and supply-chain risk. • Experience reviewing contractor and supplier risk registers, assumptions, exclusions, risk pricing and contingency provisions. • Experience in risk governance, executive reporting and senior stakeholder engagement. • Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary risk workshops. • Experience using risk management, quantitative risk analysis and reporting tools. • Experience on major transportation, urban development, industrial, tourism, energy or mixed-use infrastructure programs. • Experience in a client-side, program management consultant or major contractor environment. • Experience with FIDIC, NEC, EPC, design-and-build or other major infrastructure contracting models. • Experience designing enterprise-wide or portfolio-level contingency and reserve methodologies. • Experience integrating risk management with enterprise project controls, investment governance, funding approvals and assurance processes. • Experience working in a rapidly changing or developing program environment. • Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, @RISK, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Power BI or equivalent tools. • Strong understanding of infrastructure design and construction processes. • Good knowledge of road, civil and structural engineering interfaces. • Understanding of geotechnical, environmental, utilities, temporary works and constructability risks. • Strong knowledge of project controls, including cost, schedule, change, forecasting and earned value principles. • Advanced ability to perform, review, interpret and communicate quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis. • Strong understanding of cost and schedule contingency, management reserves and risk allowances. • Ability to assess the adequacy of risk models, assumptions, data quality and analysis outputs. • Ability to translate technical and quantitative risk information into clear business and program-level impacts. • Ability to understand complex technical information and communicate it to non-technical stakeholders. • Strong report-writing, presentation and data-analysis skills. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, risk management systems, quantitative risk tools and dashboarding platforms. • Strong understanding of risk governance, escalation, assurance and decision-making principles. • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships across technical, commercial, delivery and executive teams. • Commitment to developing a proactive and embedded risk management culture.