Risk Manager - Aviation

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 programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include programme, 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 programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is looking for an Associate Director - Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.

Responsibilities: 

• Prepare and support the delivery of recurring risk reporting and escalation to PMO and program leadership (e.g., PMO Lead, Alliance Director), synthesizing inputs across workstreams to highlight key risks, cross‑cutting issues, and decision‑relevant insights.
• Facilitate risk identification and intake across workstreams, working with technical, construction, and delivery teams to capture complete and actionable risk information.
• Maintain and coordinate risk registers across multiple levels of the program, including project-level inputs, NEEDS package-level registers, and program-level risk views.
• Support and guide project teams in effective risk identification, mitigation, and escalation practices, ensuring consistent inputs into various level risk registers.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity. 
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget. 
• Collaborate with workstream and delivery teams to understand risk ownership, dependencies, and impacts across the program.                                                                                             
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels. 
• Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of risk management services for the client. 
• Undertake end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs. 
• Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks. 
• Conduct risk reviews at regular intervals, identify and analyze, determine response plans, ensure that project and program risk profiles are being monitored and reported. 
• Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered. 
• Establish integration of the risk management function within the program and project controls team, with direct touch points to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting. 
• Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities. 
• Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues. 
• Support the identification and communication of risks impacting schedule performance and recovery planning.
• Collaborate with program controls and delivery teams to ensure risks are appropriately aligned with change management processes and reflected in construction stage cost and schedule impacts.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

Qualifications

• Due to federal contract requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens and capable of obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Public Trust security clearance. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the Public Trust investigation.
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction. 
• Minimum 5-7 years of applicable experience. 
• Relevant construction