Risk Manager

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to join our Project Controls group in Houston, TX.

Your Impact

• Act as the risk management subject matter expert on assigned project, program, portfolio being accountable for the risk management performance on assigned commissions. 
• Develop effective risk management framework / strategy. 
• Plan, design, and implement risk management processes tailored to the client’s needs and aligned with best practice (e.g., AACE International, Project Management Institute, ISO 31000).
• Facilitate structured discussions and workshops to elicit assumptions, quantify uncertainty, and validate economic risk drivers with technical and project stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain project and/or program risk registers with input from project and client team members.
• Develop and maintain quantitative economic risk models to evaluate the probability and impact of alternative project outcomes, including downside and upside scenarios.
• Conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (QCRA/QSRA) using probabilistic and simulation based methods to evaluate forecast uncertainty and outcome distributions.
• Analyze economic drivers of project risk, including market conditions, labor and commodity trends, productivity assumptions, and systemic risk factors.
• Prepare economic risk assessments, forecasts, and scenario analyses to support project managers, executives, and clients in strategic decision making.
• Advise project leadership on risk adjusted contingency and schedule reserve ranges based on quantitative economic analysis.
• Prepare project and/or program risk reports as required.
• Support project teams in developing and implementing appropriate internal and external response plans for critical risks.
• Work with project teams to determine appropriate contingency and schedule reserve amounts.
• Provide training to junior risk managers and other staff as required. 
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining a big-picture point of view.
• Ability to manage challenging behaviors and maintain effective working relationships based on diplomacy while maintaining independence and not swayed in judgment or course of actions.
• Demonstrate strong organizational, analytical, and multi-tasking skills (i.e., ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously).
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Travel as required

Who You Are

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