Risk Manager (SIOP)

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Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we’re not just building structures, we’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, and executing the construction of their state-of-the-art facilities that are changing our world.  

The Risk Manager will conduct risk management, assessment and mitigation oversight in support of U.S. Navy (NAVFAC PAC) Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP).  This position serves a critical role in meeting the objectives as a key member of the OICC Commanding Officer’s executive leadership team.  As a senior program-level manager, this individual monitors infuencing factors and the elements of risk anticipated or arising on the program.  Emphasis areas include evaluating threats and opportunities in planning, budgeting, funding, design, construction and commissioing with emphasis on cost control, schedule performance, safety,and quality assurance. This position works daily with the OICC Operations Officer to ensure tactical program execution performance through application of risk management best practices and programmatic risk analysis.  
    
Summary duties and responsibilities of the Risk Manager include: 

• Exibiting tactful and professional communications both orally and in writing received by all stakeholders with varying levels of authority.  
• Being astute, proactive, and successful in obtaining decisive action from contractors, NAVFAC and their supported commands, and other Agencies infuencing the work at all stages of development.  
• Applying analytical methods and techniques as they relate to risks. 
• Guiding, motivating, and coordinating the work of professionals in a matrix organization with  multiple reporting relationships
• Utilizing a constructive and collaborative approach and apply best pracices from team feedback. 

Specific tasks include the following: 

• Identify, analyze, track, and provide guidance with respect to actions to manage and/or mitigate risks. 
• Assist the client and its constituents in the review of program and project risks during all stages of project development and project construction execution. 
• Coordinate with program and project teams to facilitate the identification of risks, assign and track the actions necessary for risk response. Interfaces will include brainstorming, interviewing project participants and subject matter experts, root-cause, and SWOT analysis.
• Develop risk identification checklists based on historical information and knowledge accumulated from similar previous programs/projects and from other sources of information. 
• Assist in the recording of identified risks in the appropriate program/project risk register to achieve an increasing level of awareness of risk over time. 
• Assist with the prioritization of risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining the probability of occurrence and impact. 
• Consider factors such as timely response and the program leadership’s risk tolerance associated with the construction program constraints associated with cost, schedule, scope, safety, and quality. 
• Utilize the program’s established Probability and Impact Matrix to rate each risk on its probability of occurrence and level of severity if the subject impact does occur. 
• Assist program and project managers with developing an effective plan to lessen the impact of the risk by controlling the process and continuously identifying new risks and monitoring the status of current risks. 
• Recommend risk response aligned with the significance of the risk and factoring costs to address and input from individuals having an interface with the program or project. 
• Apply tools and techniques to generate variance and trend analyses of various performance metrics generated during program/project execution. 
• Monitor risk response actions and support periodic reports to interfacing authorities 
• Update the programs process assets, including project lessons learned databases and risk management templates, for the benefit of follow-on programs/projects. 
• Monitor and analyze risk trends and variances. 
• Document actions leading to the resolution of risk response. 
• Recommend execution of contingencies and/or modifications to the program management plan if the collective team deems that revisions are necessary.
• Serve as the Jacobs staff manager and subcontracting authority for all 3rd party support services over the duration of this contract.  This includes responsibility for contract invoicing,  personnel supervision and timekeeping, and ensuring quality in our deliverables.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.
 

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree with a technical and/or business concentation. 
• Recent experience with demonstrated competence in similar scopes of work for risk identification, analysis and process management.
• Minimum 2 years of specialized experience in performing risk management, risk assessment, risk analysis, and risk mitigation tasks for design and construction projects 
• Project Control experience on large programs or projects in excess of $500 million.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Proficiency with Crystal Ball or Oracle Project Risk Analysis, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.), and Primavera P6 scheduling software. 
• Adaptable to new software such as eCMS and other client software/workflows.
• NAVFAC, shipyard and/or port project experience is highly desirable.

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