Risk Manager - NYC NY U.S.

Your impact

We're seeking a talented Risk Manager to join our growing, dynamic team at Jacobs. We'll lean on you for demonstrated strong teamwork skills, communication skills, quality discipline, workload awareness, and commercial/financial acumen. To be successful in this role, you'll have the ability to work a Hybrid model coming in two days a week at our Jacobs office in NYC NY.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the overall goals and priorities of the Risk Management team.
• Manage program/project risk for specific clients including Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis (“CSRA”).
• Perform complex commercial and financial risk analysis/modelling enabling clients to make informed decisions for major construction.
• Utilize advance Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) tools to enhance delivery and increase efficiency.
• Lead and participate in regular risk reviews to identify, capture, and sanction risks, able to apply advance Monte Carlo analysis to inform and recommend appropriate mitigation actions and financial impacts.
• Manage the assessment, evaluation, prioritization, and update of risks for several Programs or Projects.
• Monitor and measure the associated mitigation actions to prevent risk occurrence.
• Conduct risk assessment workshops and training with the project teams and program departments, identify and define risks, evaluate potential impact, and develop effective risk mitigation measures to diminish potential budget and schedule impacts to projects or the program.
• Define risk management framework (policy, strategy, plan), establish risk management process, and organize risk management resources with leadership support.
• Direct and review the cost of mitigation action, budget and actual (both in the risk register and work breakdown structure) and evaluate risks to ensure the Program or Project contingency reserve value is accurate and rigorous cost controls are applied. Perform cost / benefit analysis against contingency reserve actions.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual reports for risk data, and conduct multiple Risk Assessment Briefings for client and program management.
• Engage in performing QA/QC tasks for all client deliverables including completion to QA/QC logs.
• Effective team communication, running regularly scheduled team meetings, and ensuring cross project alignment.

Bring your curiosity, passion for innovation, and talent for multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. We’ll help you grow, pursue and fulfill what inspires you – so we can make big impacts on the world, together.