Program Risk Manager – Airport Project

AECOM is seeking a Program Risk Manager to join our team. This position is based on-site, out of Mississauga. We are seeking professionals to join our team to help us build one of the most advanced, sustainable and passenger-friendly airports in the world.

Major Responsibilities: 

Reporting to the Risk Management Practice Lead, this position will be responsible for implementing a risk management program to support successful delivery of our client’s infrastructure development program in the Greater Toronto Area.  As an industry leader in program management and construction management for large capital programs, AECOM oversees activities ranging from planning, coordination, scheduling, and cost control, to design, construction, and commissioning. From concept through completion, we provide necessary technical and administrative services to help our clients meet their program objectives. We function as an extension of our clients’ staff, protecting their interests as our own.

The Program Risk Manager will be responsible for the delivery of risk management services to Client’s Infrastructure development program and projects.

Essential functions of the job include:

• Developing and implementing program and/or project risk management plans.
• Verifying and ensuring that agreed program and/or project Risk Management Plans are implemented by the project teams.
• Facilitating regular risk workshops and maintaining a good working knowledge of the program and/or projects and related activities to inform risk assessment and management.
• Advising and assisting program and/or project teams in implementing appropriate risk treatment plans and communicating risks to avoid surprises with key stakeholders.
• Integrating program-wide risk data to inform and support program’s day-to-day management of risks, program and/or project assurance, and decision-making processes.
• Conducting project and program-level schedule risk workshops/reviews and Quantitative Schedule Risk Assessments (QSRA).
• Conducting project and program-level cost risk workshops/reviews and Quantitative Cost Risk Assessments (QCRA).
• Providing periodic, accurate, and reliable risk reporting including performance trends and identifying items for management escalation.
• Creating and reporting regular leadership and executive level briefing papers to summarize key risks and mitigations as well as risk performance.
• Maintaining a program-wide register of identified and/or emergent risks and opportunities for use on future projects.