Risk Lead

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Job Description

AECOM is looking for a Risk Lead to join our team.  This position can be located in several cities, including: San Diego, Tucson, and El Paso.

• Support risk assessments, develop and organize risk mitigation plans and develop tracking mechanisms to controls effectiveness of risk management. Developing and undertaking advanced Quantitative Risk Analysis including Cost, Schedule and integrated Cost and Schedule analyses, to enable robust forecasting and tracking of risk exposure.
• Assist in the execution and maintenance of Construction risk management service framework, including data use case execution that reflect project/program direction and opportunities.
• Recognize and manage Construction risks and assist in putting in place appropriate mitigation plans and assists in communicating these to avoid surprises with key stakeholders.
• Conduct constructability reviews, schedule critical reviews, and scrutinize cost estimates, understanding areas of uncertainty.
• Assist in the development of ad hoc Construction risk communiques supporting decision points in the project.
• Review project document, analyze project data and develop Construction Risk Registers.
• Work with project team on Construction risk allocation and risk transfer mechanisms
• Prepare Construction Risk Assessment presentations and prepare presentations of the projects risk profile.
• Promote, set up and implement a risk management system, making it appropriate to the needs of the project through the project lifecycle.
• Development and implementation of project risk management plans.
• Delivery of discrete risk interventions and imbedded risk management services
• Delivery of value and reduction of risk exposure through active mitigation of threats and maximization of opportunities.
• Undertaking day-to-day risk management activities including identification, prioritization, register management, action planning and monitoring.
• Production of periodic risk reporting including profiled risk expenditure, impacted risk / drawdown and risk exposure changes.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS + 6 years of experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Due to the nature of the work, US citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in quantitative/qualitative cost/schedule risk assessments within Construction Management, Civil Engineering, and Program and Project Management.
• Extensive experience in the application of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) techniques and tools, for example: @Risk and Primavera Risk Analysis (previously Pertmaster), including the analysis of complex logic-linked cost-loaded schedules.   
• Familiarity with Monte Carlo simulation and any experience with applicable software, such as P6 Risk Analyzer, or Crystal Ball an asset.
• Experience using Enterprise Risk Management tools, for example, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict! and Oracle PPM (P6R).
• Experience in the delivery of risk throughout the project lifecycle including support of investment decisions and delivery/implementation phases and at Program or Strategic level.
• Experience in the construction or infrastructure sectors.

Additional Information

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of an enhanced background investigation, which may include, but is not limited to, verification of employment and education, a criminal history review, drug screening, and a Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) check, as applicable.

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