Senior Project Risk Manager
Work Location: Berkeley, CA (onsite)
Rate: Up to $100/hour (non-exempt)
Hours: 40

Required qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, Economics, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in project risk management, project controls, cost/schedule management, or complex capital projects.
• Experience leading or administering risk management for a large, technically complex capital project - scientific facility, infrastructure program, construction, aerospace, or defense.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining project risk registers and facilitating senior-level risk workshops and reviews.
• Advanced quantitative risk-analysis experience, including Monte Carlo simulation, cost/schedule uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and contingency confidence levels.
• Experience integrating risk with Integrated Master Schedules, cost estimates, Estimate at Completion, and change control.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, deliver difficult information, and escalate material risks while preserving strong working relationships.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with DOE Order 413.3B capital-project requirements and DOE Guide 413.3-7A.
• Experience with Safran Risk / Safran Risk Manager and proficiency with Primavera P6.
• EVMS (Earned Value Management System) experience.
• Experience supporting project rebaselines, recovery plans, independent cost estimates, external reviews, or corrective-action programs.
• Experience with particle accelerators, scientific user facilities, or other highly integrated technical programs.
• PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, or equivalent certification.
• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.

Position Details:
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and administer the ALS-U project risk-management program, including maintaining the Risk Management Plan, risk taxonomy, and governance cadence.
• Own and maintain the project risk register, ensuring risk statements, ownership, mitigation plans, and retirement criteria are complete and defensible.
• Facilitate risk workshops, subsystem risk reviews, deep dives, and the ALS-U Risk Management Board.
• Develop and maintain quantitative cost and schedule risk models, including Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and contingency confidence assessments.
• Integrate risk data with Primavera P6, cost estimates, control accounts, critical-path activities, and contingency forecasts in coordination with Project Controls.
• Track mitigation commitments and escalate overdue, stalled, or ineffective actions and material risk concerns to project leadership.
• Conduct forward-looking risk assessments across procurement, installation, commissioning, staffing, and external/DOE dependencies.
• Prepare executive-level risk reports, briefings, and decision-support materials for project leadership, Laboratory management, DOE, and external review committees.
• Support rebaselines, recovery plans, funding scenarios, independent cost reviews, and DOE reviews.
• Develop risk-management training and drive continuous improvement of risk tools, processes, and reporting.

Interested parties that meet or exceed the requested qualifications, please send a detailed resume and rate expectation to Jenny Lister at JAL@BCPengineers.com
**Members of the BCP Team have access to Group Health Insurance and 401k**
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