Project Risk Manager – Mega Projects
Nexus Engineering Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Akron • United States
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About the role
- The Project Risk Manager is accountable for comprehensive and cross-functional project risk identification, prioritization, and response planning.
- This role facilitates risk workshops, documents and codifies risk information, analyzes risk and project information, and provides risk findings to the project team and project leadership.
- This role embeds risk management within the broader project controls ecosystem linking cost, schedule, change, performance, and governance to provide early warning and credible forecasts.
- This raises risk awareness and supports the maximizing of risk response effectiveness.
- The position partners closely with engineering, procurement, construction, contracts, and senior leadership to systematically identify, quantify, mitigate, and communicate risks and opportunities across all phases of the project lifecycle from conceptual design through commissioning and startup.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline
- 8+ years of experience in project analysis, risk management, project controls, or major capital project delivery
- Experience supporting large megaprojects ($500M+; multibillion preferred)
- Proficient in project governance methodologies like the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) and Front End Loading (FEL) Index
- Strong understanding of integrated project controls, including cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance management
- Experience capturing and documenting lessons learned
- Demonstrated experience applying quantitative risk analysis to real world project decisions
- Ability to translate complex project data into clear, defensible insights for senior leadership
- Excellent facilitation, analytical, writing, and executive communication skills
- Preferred – strong understanding of the project lifecycle, information maturity
- Preferred – demonstrated ability to manage information uncertainty to drive proactive risk management
- Experience in EPC/EPCm environments on complex, multi-stakeholder projects
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive risk-informed decision making.
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits
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Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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