Risk Management Lead

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

You are an experienced risk management professional with 8-12 years’ experience in large-scale infrastructure or capital projects. You are comfortable leading risk review sessions, driving best practices, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders. You have a strategic mindset, excellent communication skills, and a strong technical understanding of risk management processes, including quantitative analysis techniques like Monte Carlo simulations.

As a risk management professional, you will be involved in:

• Lead and manage the program/project risk management activities
• Collaborate with Program or Risk Director to develop and maintain the program risk management strategy, aligning it with client objectives and best practices.

• Oversee the end-to-end risk management process for project/program, ensuring risks are identified, analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and mitigated effectively.
• Conduct and/or oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo simulations) to inform decision-making and support project baselines.
• Regularly review and update program and project risk profiles, ensuring risks are communicated effectively to key stakeholders.
• Utilize Safran or other Risk Management software to facilitate risk analysis, reporting, and tracking of project and program risks.

• Integrate risk management with program/project controls, ensuring alignment with cost, schedule, estimate, change control, and reporting functions.
• Work collaboratively with program/project teams and client representatives to identify opportunities for improvement and eliminate redundancies.
• Act as the main point of contact for client and stakeholder risk management inquiries, providing clear and actionable insights.

• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions, including training, lessons learned workshops, and presentations to enhance risk awareness across the program.
• Continuously improve risk management processes, tools, and methodologies to reflect evolving program needs and industry advancements.

• Minimum of 8 years of post-graduate experience in risk management within large infrastructure or capital projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Engineering, Construction Management, Risk Management).
• Skilled experience using industry standard software packages and applications – Active Risk Manager (ARM), Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA), @Risk, etc.
• Strong understanding of program and project controls environments, including cost, schedule, and change management.
• Proven ability to manage risk on programs or projects exceeding $100M in value, preferably within the transit, infrastructure, defense aviation, infrastructure, or related sectors.
• Professional qualifications in risk management (e.g., PMI-RMP, ARM, or equivalent) or project management (e.g., PMP) are highly desirable.

The base salary range for this full-time role is $95,000 - $145,000 per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This…