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Senior Risk Manager

Flexton

Job Location:

Berkeley, CA - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 195 - 195

Posted: 8 September 2026 (16 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 6 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Flexton is a growing IT services and staffing company serving some of the worlds most renowned and Fortune-listed companies across industries such as eCommerce HighTech Banking & Financial Services Insurance and Healthcare. With a global presence spanning the US Canada Europe Colombia Mexico and India Flexton offers its clients cost-effective solutions through onsite offshore and nearshore models. Flexton provides its employees with opportunities for growth meaningful work and continuous learning!
Senior Risk Manager
Payrate: $195/hr on W2
Desired Start Date: August 17 2026
Desired End Date: August 16 2027

Lead and administer the integrated project risk-management program.
Establish and maintain risk-management processes procedures and governance frameworks.
Ensure consistent application of risk-management practices across project functions and work packages.
Integrate risk management with project controls cost management schedule management change management and project execution.
Establish risk-management roles responsibilities escalation paths and accountability.
Facilitate risk reviews risk workshops and management discussions.
Identify assess quantify monitor and communicate project risks and opportunities.
Develop and maintain the project risk register.
Ensure risks are documented with causes consequences likelihood impacts ownership and response strategies.
Identify risk interdependencies and relationships between risks.
Assign and monitor risk ownership and accountability.
Perform and/or oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses.
Develop risk-based cost and schedule models using appropriate quantitative methodologies.
Evaluate the potential impact of risks on project cost and schedule objectives.
Conduct probabilistic analysis scenario modeling sensitivity analysis and risk-driver analysis as required.
Support development of confidence levels contingency estimates and management reserve recommendations.
Work with risk owners to develop practical and measurable risk mitigation strategies.
Establish mitigation actions responsible parties target dates and expected outcomes.
Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of mitigation activities.
Track overdue ineffective or deteriorating mitigation actions and escalate significant risks.
Evaluate residual risk following implementation of mitigation measures.
Integrate risk management with project planning scheduling engineering procurement construction installation testing and commissioning activities.
Monitor emerging conditions that could create new risks or opportunities.
Conduct forward-looking assessments of project risk exposure.
Identify trends and leading indicators that may affect project objectives.
Assess the impact of major project changes on the existing risk profile.
Support change-control and management decision processes through risk analysis.
Evaluate cumulative and interconnected risks across project functions.
Provide early warning of emerging issues and potential project impacts.
Prepare periodic risk reports dashboards and executive-level risk summaries.
Present significant risks opportunities trends and mitigation status to project leadership.
Prepare risk information for formal project reviews and management assessments.
Communicate significant changes in risk exposure to appropriate stakeholders.
Develop clear visualizations of risk trends exposure mitigation status and risk drivers.
Facilitate risk workshops and cross-functional risk reviews.
Provide guidance and training to project personnel on risk identification assessment response planning and monitoring.
Promote consistent application of risk-management methodologies across project teams.
Identify opportunities to improve risk-management processes tools and reporting.
Capture and apply lessons learned from risk events and mitigation activities.
Recommend process improvements based on project experience industry practices and emerging risk-management methodologies.
Provide objective data-driven and decision-ready risk information to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Engineering Project Management Risk Management Business Finance or a related discipline.
Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in project risk management program management project controls or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience leading risk-management programs for large-scale complex multidisciplinary projects.
Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk-management methodologies.
Experience performing cost and schedule risk analysis.
Experience developing maintaining and managing project risk registers.
Demonstrated ability to identify assess quantify monitor and mitigate project risks.
Experience developing risk mitigation strategies and tracking corrective actions.
Strong understanding of project cost schedule engineering procurement and execution processes.
Experience collaborating with project managers engineering teams project controls teams and functional stakeholders.
Ability to analyze complex data identify risk trends and communicate impacts to senior leadership.
Strong analytical problem-solving organizational and communication skills.
Experience with risk-management tools project controls systems scheduling tools or data-analysis software.
Ability to facilitate risk workshops stakeholder meetings and executive-level risk reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree or professional certification in Risk Management Project Management Engineering Finance or a related field.
Professional certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP) Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) or equivalent.
Experience supporting large-scale engineering infrastructure technology research or industrial projects.
Experience with quantitative risk analysis tools and Monte Carlo simulation methodologies.
Experience integrating risk management with cost schedule and earned-value management processes.
Experience supporting major capital projects or complex technical programs.
Experience developing executive dashboards risk reports and decision-support materials.
Familiarity with industry-standard project risk-management frameworks and best practices.
Experience with enterprise risk-management project controls scheduling or cost-management platforms.
Experience leading cross-functional risk workshops and senior management risk reviews.

Required Experience:

Manager

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