Turner & Townsend

Risk Manager – Aviation

Turner & Townsend
Posted 10/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $130,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in risk management, including risk identification, assessment, and mitigation across construction and program management environments. Proficient in developing risk management plans, facilitating communication among stakeholders, and utilizing analytical skills to enhance project outcomes.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Risk ManagementConstruction Project ProcurementProgram ManagementQuantitative Cost And Schedule Risk AssessmentsStrong Communication Skills

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Tableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Prepare and support recurring risk reporting and escalation to PMO and program leadership
  • Synthesize inputs across workstreams to highlight key risks, cross-cutting issues, and decision-relevant insights
  • Prepare concise risk briefings for program leadership and clients, including conclusions, options, recommendations, and supporting analysis
  • Facilitate risk identification and intake across technical, construction, and delivery workstreams
  • Validate risks with owning workstream leads and document validation sources and dates
  • Maintain and coordinate risk registers at project, package, and program levels
  • Support project teams with risk identification, mitigation, and escalation practices
  • Develop and maintain escalation criteria and risk reporting cadence in the Risk Management Plan
  • Monitor threat and opportunity trigger points, risk cost profiling, risk budget drawdown, and retirement of threats or opportunities
  • Monitor overall risk exposure and remaining risk budget
  • Collaborate with teams to assess risk ownership, dependencies, and program impacts
  • Conduct quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments, including QCRA and QSRA
  • Lead comprehensive cost and schedule risk assessment delivery
  • Review and improve risk management services for the client
  • Perform end-to-end project risk management across multiple projects and programs
  • Develop and maintain risk management plans and processes
  • Conduct regular risk reviews, analyze risks, determine response plans, and monitor risk profiles
  • Integrate risk management with project controls, cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting
  • Coordinate with the Safety Lead to consistently manage hazards that affect cost or schedule
  • Facilitate risk management knowledge transfer to the risk team, project controls team, and client organization
  • Support identification and communication of schedule performance risks and recovery planning
  • Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • U.S. citizenship required
  • Capable of obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Public Trust security clearance
  • Successful completion of the Public Trust investigation
  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field
  • 10+ years of applicable experience
  • Relevant construction project procurement and contract management experience
  • Experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment
  • Understanding of construction delivery methods and project execution practices
  • Strong communication, analytical, facilitation, and negotiation skills
  • In-depth understanding of construction delivery methods, contracts, and commercial models
  • Strong problem-solving skills, including root-cause identification and process improvement
  • Familiarity with ARM, Kahua, Tableau, or similar web-based database and reporting tools
  • Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments involving owner, integrator, PMO, and contractor organizations
  • Ability to operate effectively while processes, tools, and governance are evolving
  • Preferred: experience supporting federal programs or projects
  • Preferred: experience working through or coordinating with a prime contractor
  • Preferred: experience in FAA, airport, aviation, or similarly complex regulated environments

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote work
  • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment
  • Work-life balance support
  • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
  • Opportunity to affect change and have a voice
  • No recruitment fees charged to candidates

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Hard Skills
Risk IdentificationRisk ReportingRisk AnalysisCost ManagementSchedule ManagementContract ManagementProcess ImprovementRoot-Cause IdentificationRisk Budget MonitoringRisk Register Maintenance
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsFacilitation SkillsNegotiation SkillsProblem-Solving Skills
Tools & Technologies
ARMKahuaTableau
Certifications & Qualifications
U.S. Public Trust Security Clearance
Industry Keywords
Construction ManagementProgram ControlsConstruction Delivery MethodsFederal ProgramsAviation