Senior Risk Management Specialist

Role & Responsibilities

• Review, negotiate, and advise on prime and subconsultant terms (including indemnity, standard of care, limitation of liability, flow-down, ownership of documents, warranties)
• Evaluate contract-specific insurance obligations, confirm coverage availability, and advise on pricing when supplemental coverage is required
• Oversight of subconsultant Certificate of Insurance (COI) collection and tracking (e.g., Trustlayer), ensuring limits match Burns' contractual obligations
• Own and improve the contract review workflow, clause libraries, and the Copilot Contract Review Agent
• Cross-functional partnership with Project Managers, Project Accounting, and Business Development; support go/no-go and fee-development decisions
• Lead PM training on contractual and insurance risk
• Build the function's capacity as volume grows, supervise and develop risk staff

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 7+ years of contract administration, contract management, or risk management experience
• Strong command of corporate insurance programs within a professional services and/or architecture and engineering (A&E) environment
• Experience reviewing and negotiating engineering, architectural, and design-professional contracts strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate directly with clients and brokers and to prioritize in a high-volume environment
• Prioritized ability to manage competing demands in a high-volume environment
• Previous people leadership, supervisory, or mentoring experience

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word and Excel

Benefits

This is a senior role responsible for managing contractual and insurance risk across the organization, providing strategic guidance to project teams and leadership, and building scalable processes that support the company's continued growth.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The position is full-time and based in Philadelphia, PA.

About Burns

Burns Burns Engineering provides professional engineering design and project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale infrastructure projects. Burns’ full-service capabilities include mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation, and energy consulting engineering. Recently voted a Top Workplace by Philly.com, we credit our strength as an organization to our talented, driven, vibrant team. Burns is an ENR Top 500 Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig. We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team players. We put our clients’ successes and best interests first, because their success is our success. We have fun at work because we love making a difference in the world. We are looking for high-energy, bright, collaborative individuals who want the opportunity to “write their own story” with us.