Senior Risk Manager (Giga Program)

Role overview

Risk leadership and assessment

• Develop and maintain the program risk strategy, framework, procedures, and reporting requirements.
• Lead risk activities across infrastructure packages from concept and design through procurement, construction, testing, and handover.
• Set consistent risk standards across consultants, contractors, designers, and delivery partners; embed risk in governance, project controls, commercial management, and decisions.
• Advise senior leadership on material risks, emerging threats, opportunities, and recommended responses; promote a proactive, transparent risk culture.
• Facilitate risk-identification workshops, reviews, and interviews; assess infrastructure, design, construction, supply-chain, land, permit, site, and interface risks.
• Review team and contractor assessments; identify systemic and interdependent risks; maintain clear risk assumptions, consequences, owners, responses, and due dates.

Quantitative analysis and contingency

• Lead quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis and maintain and quality-assure models across the program and project packages.
• Perform probabilistic cost analysis, including uncertainty modeling, risk-adjusted forecasts, Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity and correlation analysis, and confidence-level reporting.
• Perform schedule-risk analysis, including schedule-quality and critical-path reviews, duration and productivity assessment, Monte Carlo modeling, completion forecasts, and contingency assessment.
• Translate results into recommendations for cost plans, schedules, funding, delivery strategies, and governance; review assumptions, data quality, correlations, and model methods.
• Develop and maintain contingency, reserve, and risk-allowance methods; set requirements based on quantified exposure, confidence, estimate maturity, and schedule certainty.
• Review contingency in estimates, schedules, contracts, delivery plans, and contractor submissions; recommend reserves for approvals and monitor usage, transfers, remaining exposure, and adequacy.
• Reconcile risk registers, models, cost forecasts, schedules, contingency, and reserves; report movements and emerging exposure to program leadership.

Mitigation, reporting, and commercial risk

• Develop mitigation plans with risk owners, monitor effectiveness, challenge overdue actions, and assess residual exposure.
• Embed responses in design, procurement, contracts, construction methods, schedules, cost plans, change control, and contingency plans.
• Maintain the risk register, breakdown structure, matrix, database, taxonomy, dashboards, and executive reports; escalate significant risks and track trends and actions.
• Prepare risk inputs for program reviews, investment committees, stage gates, and board reporting; support audits, assurance reviews, and independent assessments.
• Support procurement and commercial teams on contract risk allocation, contractor and supplier registers, assumptions, exclusions, pricing, contingency, claims, disputes, variations, delay, and performance.
• Coordinate risks across packages and organizational boundaries; communicate quantitative analysis to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Team leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop risk professionals and project-team members; establish competency requirements and deliver training and awareness sessions.
• Promote consistent methods and constructive challenge; build capability in quantitative cost and schedule analysis and contingency management.
• Set quality standards for risk models, assumptions, data, outputs, and governance submissions.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, risk management, quantity surveying, finance, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of risk-management experience.
• Professional risk-management qualification or certification, such as PMI-RMP, IRM, APM Risk Certificate, RIMS-CRMP, or equivalent.
• Significant risk-management experience on major infrastructure, construction, or capital-investment programs and roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, earthworks, utilities, civil infrastructure, and structural works.
• Experience in complex multi-project or giga-scale programs; hands-on delivery of quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience developing and managing contingency, reserves, and risk allowances, and integrating risk analysis with forecasts, schedules, and executive decisions.
• Experience with design, procurement, contracting, construction delivery, contractors, consultants, supply chains, governance, reporting, and multidisciplinary workshops.

Desirable experience and qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project or program management certification is desirable; membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.
• Experience on major transportation, urban development, industrial, tourism, energy, or mixed-use programs is desirable.
• Client-side, program-management-consultant, or major-contractor experience is desirable.
• Experience with FIDIC, NEC, EPC, design-and-build, or other major infrastructure contracting models is desirable.
• Enterprise or portfolio contingency methods, project-controls and investment-governance integration, and developing-program experience are desirable.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, @RISK, Safran, Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Power BI, or equivalent tools is desirable.

Knowledge and technical skills

• Strong understanding of infrastructure design and construction, road, civil, and structural interfaces, and geotechnical, environmental, utilities, temporary-works, and constructability risks.
• 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 and assess models, assumptions, data, and outputs.
• Understanding of contingency, management reserves, risk allowances, governance, escalation, assurance, and decision-making.
• Ability to translate technical and quantitative risk into clear business and program impacts and communicate complex information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong report-writing, presentation, data-analysis, relationship-building, and Microsoft Office skills; proficiency with risk systems, quantitative tools, and dashboards.