Senior Project Risk Manager

About the role

• Job Title: Senior Project Risk Manager
• Reports to Director Project Controls
• Reports in office: Portland, OR or other Avangrid Power Location

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $120,000- $145,800

Competitive benefits and growth opportunities

• Generous performance-based bonuses
• 12% 401(k) match
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development and clear career advancement pathways

Benefits

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Job Purpose Statement

The Senior Risk Manager serves as the senior project and portfolio risk management lead within Project Delivery, accountable for establishing and governing a consistent risk management framework across the project lifecycle. The role provides independent challenge, quantitative risk insight, and decision support to project teams and senior management, with particular focus on interconnection, development, construction, procurement, financial, commercial, schedule, cost, contractual and operational risk.

The position owns the quality and maturity of project risk practices, translates uncertainty into actionable management information, and ensures material threats and opportunities are identified, quantified, assigned, mitigated, escalated and monitored. The Senior Risk Manager partners with Project Controls, Development, Construction, Procurement, Finance and other stakeholders to strengthen forecast confidence and support informed portfolio and project decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, implement and continuously improve the enterprise/project risk management framework, standards, governance, procedures, templates and reporting requirements for Project Delivery.
• Lead risk identification, assessment and review workshops for key projects and portfolios; challenge assumptions and ensure risks and opportunities are clearly defined, assessed, assigned and actively managed.
• Own the integrity of project risk registers and portfolio risk information, including risk statements, causes, consequences, probability, impact, response actions, owners, target dates and residual exposure.
• Develop and maintain risk classification, scoring, escalation and aggregation practices that provide consistent visibility of material exposure across projects and the portfolio.
• Quantify cost and schedule uncertainty using appropriate quantitative risk analysis and scenario techniques; translate results into recommendations for contingency, management reserve, forecast confidence and decision-making.
• Integrate risk management with project controls processes, including cost management, scheduling, forecasting, change management, procurement and reporting, so that material risk exposure is reflected in project plans and forecasts.
• Prepare and present concise project and portfolio risk reporting to senior management, highlighting material exposures, emerging risks, trends, mitigation effectiveness, decisions required and areas requiring escalation.
• Provide independent risk challenge to major project decisions, business proposals, estimates, schedules, contracting strategies and commercial positions before key approvals or governance gates.
• Review major contracts and procurement strategies from a risk perspective, including allocation of commercial, contractual, construction, claims, insurance and delivery risk; identify mitigation and risk-transfer opportunities.
• Establish and monitor risk response plans for high-priority exposures; hold accountable owners to agreed mitigation actions and escalate overdue or ineffective responses through appropriate governance channels.
• Facilitate cross-functional risk discussions and ensure dependencies, interfaces and systemic risks across development, engineering, procurement, construction and operations are visible and actively managed.
• Develop business continuity and risk response strategies, where applicable, to reduce disruption and protect project objectives.
• Define risk metrics and management information, perform periodic quality reviews and audits, and verify that project risk data is current, consistent and decision useful.
• Champion risk culture across Project Delivery by coaching leaders and project teams on uncertainty, contingency, risk ownership, escalation and application of risk management tools and techniques.
• Support lessons learned and continuous improvement by analyzing realized risks, mitigation effectiveness and recurring risk drivers across the portfolio.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for project risk management and contribute to the advancement of project management and Project Controls capability across the organization.
• Operates across individual projects and the broader portfolio, with responsibility for consistency, challenge and escalation of risk information used by senior management.
• Influences cross-functional teams and risk owners without relying solely on direct authority, ensuring risk responses are actionable and aligned with project objectives.
• Provides recommendations where uncertainty could materially affect cost, schedule, commercial outcomes or delivery commitments, and supports leadership in evaluating risk-adjusted alternatives.
• Leads improvement of risk governance, analytics and reporting maturity across Project Delivery rather than performing risk-register administration as a primarily transactional activity.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, business, economics, construction management or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Significant relevant experience 5+ years in project, construction, development or enterprise risk management; experience supporting complex capital projects is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading risk workshops, maintaining risk registers, developing mitigation strategies and communicating material risk exposure to senior stakeholders.
• Strong quantitative and analytical capability, including advanced spreadsheet and data-modelling skills; experience with cost and schedule risk analysis and scenario modelling is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of project controls, scheduling, cost management, forecasting, change control and contingency management, with the ability to connect risk exposure to cost and schedule outcomes.
• Working knowledge of construction law, contracts, claims avoidance, insurance, procurement and contract administration is preferred.
• Familiarity with renewable energy construction and project
• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation and executive-presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex risk information clearly and influence decisions in a matrixed organization.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately
• Self-directed, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining strong governance and analytical discipline.
• Professional risk or project management credentials such as PRM, PMI-RMP, PMP, or equivalent advanced education/certification are preferred.

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