Risk Manager - Aviation

About the role

Turner & Townsend is seeking an Associate Director - Risk Manager to join their growing team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and support the delivery of recurring risk reporting and escalation to PMO and program leadership.
• Facilitate risk identification and intake across workstreams, capturing complete and actionable risk information.
• Maintain and coordinate risk registers across multiple levels of the program.
• Support and guide project teams in effective risk identification, mitigation, and escalation practices.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
• Collaborate with workstream and delivery teams to understand risk ownership, dependencies, and impacts.
• 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.
• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling and timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
• 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.
• 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, adhering to relevant regulations.

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.
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of applicable experience.
• Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment.
• Understanding of construction delivery methods and project execution practices, with awareness of how risks may impact cost, schedule, and delivery.
• Strong communication, analytical, and facilitation skills, including negotiation skills.
• In-depth understanding of construction delivery methods, contracts, and commercial models.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and improve processes where appropriate.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Kahua, Tableau.
• Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer-centric.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments (e.g., owner, integrator, PMO, contractors).
• Ability to operate effectively in environments where processes, tools, and governance are evolving.

Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $130K-$150K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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