Risk Manager
Pay Rate:- $40-$45
Berkeley, CA (5 days on-site)
Contract role

The Subcontractor shall provide the risk-management analyses, records, models, reports, meeting products, and decision-support information required to administer the ALS-U risk-management program.

Deliverables may include:

Current and configuration-controlled ALS-U Risk Management Plan.
Current and complete project risk register maintained in Safran Risk Manager or another client-approved system.
Risk statements, ownership assignments, mitigation plans, trigger conditions, retirement criteria, and supporting rationale.
Monthly Risk Management Board agendas, presentation materials, meeting minutes, decision records, and action logs.
Monthly project risk reports identifying top risks, emerging risks, changes in exposure, mitigation status, and matters requiring management action.
Periodic risk-workshop materials, risk-identification records, subsystem risk assessments, and focused deep-dive reports.
Integrated cost and schedule risk-analysis models.
Monte Carlo simulation results, sensitivity analyses, scenario analyses, contingency confidence-level assessments, and risk-driver summaries.
Documentation of model inputs, probability distributions, correlations, uncertainty assumptions, risk mappings, and limitations.
Reconciliations between modeled exposure, realized risks, retired risks, available contingency, and current project forecasts.
Risk-analysis inputs supporting baseline changes, recovery plans, funding scenarios, DOE reviews, independent cost estimates, and management decisions.
Mitigation-status reports identifying overdue, stalled, ineffective, or inadequately resourced actions.
Executive-level risk briefings and presentation materials.
Training materials, guidance documents, templates, and quality-check criteria.
Auditable records of risk acceptance, retirement decisions, ownership changes, model changes, and mitigation commitments.
Special risk assessments and management analyses requested by the client Technical Representative.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline, and at least eight years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, or management of complex capital projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience leading or administering risk management for a large, technically complex capital project, construction program, scientific facility, infrastructure program, aerospace or defense program, or comparable high-consequence undertaking.
Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers.
Experience facilitating risk workshops and senior-level risk reviews.
Experience assigning and tracking risk ownership and mitigation actions.
Experience performing or directing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, estimate uncertainty, schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence-level assessment.
Experience integrating risk information with an Integrated Master Schedule, cost estimate, Estimate at Completion, change-control process, and project performance reporting.
Experience producing executive-level risk assessments and defending methodology, assumptions, and results before senior management or independent reviewers.
Experience working across technical, project-management, project-controls, procurement, construction, operations, and institutional support organizations.
Strong analytical writing, presentation, facilitation, and executive-communication skills
Ability to challenge unsupported assumptions, raise unfavorable information, and escalate material concerns while maintaining constructive working relationships.
Strong records-management and configuration-control discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting a DOE Order 413.3B capital asset project or comparable federally governed major project.
Working knowledge of DOE Guide 413.3-7A or comparable capital-project riskmanagement guidance.
Experience with Safran Risk Manager and Safran Risk.
Proficiency with Primavera P6.
Familiarity with earned-value systems and EVMS concepts.
Experience supporting a project rebaseline, baseline deviation, recovery plan, independent cost estimate, external review, or major corrective-action effort.
Experience with accelerator facilities, scientific user facilities, installation-intensive projects, industrial construction, aerospace, defense, or other highly integrated technical programs.
Professional certification such as PMI Risk Management Professional, Project Management Professional, AACE certification, or equivalent.
Advanced degree in a relevant technical, analytical, or management discipline.

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