Project Risk Manager

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $185k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎲 Risk

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VOLTA

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Media • Marketing • B2B

VOLTA is a visual development studio dedicated to creating high-end 2D and 3D visuals. Since 2006 its veteran team has delivered hundreds of CGI, animation, VFX, concept art, matte painting, storyboard, and key art projects for major entertainment companies worldwide. The studio produces marketing materials and visual development assets for film, TV and related entertainment customers, working as a service provider to other businesses.

📋 Description

• Lead the regional risk management program across Volta’s North American portfolio • Establish consistent risk governance, standards, processes, methodologies, and escalation requirements • Integrate risk management throughout the project lifecycle and across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, Commissioning, and Operations Readiness • Provide independent risk oversight and constructive challenge to project and functional leadership • Promote proactive risk culture, clear ownership, accountability, timely escalation, and risk-informed decision-making • Advise project, regional, and executive leadership as the regional risk management subject matter expert • Lead identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and closure of risks and opportunities • Build, own, maintain, and oversee project risk registers • Evaluate EPC delivery risks across design, permitting, utility interconnection, procurement, long-lead equipment, construction, commercial performance, commissioning, energization, and MW capacity delivery • Consolidate and evaluate project risks regionally to identify emerging, systemic, correlated, and concentration risks • Lead qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including Monte Carlo simulation and schedule risk analysis • Assess cost exposure, schedule uncertainty, critical-path risks, milestones, and readiness-for-service dates • Develop risk-based recommendations for project contingency and management reserves • Analyze portfolio risk drivers, scenarios, sensitivities, and potential impacts • Provide risk analysis for investment decisions, stage gates, baseline approvals, major contract awards, and significant project decisions • Develop executive project and regional reporting, dashboards, and analytics • Monitor and report mitigation progress, overdue actions, exposure changes, realized risks, and escalation matters • Support project reviews, leadership meetings, investment decisions, and governance forums • Conduct periodic project risk reviews and health checks • Test project assumptions, forecasts, contingency requirements, mitigation strategies, and confidence levels • Identify cross-project lessons learned and systemic weaknesses • Drive continuous improvement of risk processes, methodologies, tools, analytics, reporting, and organizational capability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience • Significant experience in risk management, project controls, or project delivery within complex EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, mission-critical, or major capital programs • Demonstrated experience leading project and portfolio risk management, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and assurance • Strong understanding of cost, schedule, contingency, and project controls principles and their integration with project risk management • Experience applying quantitative risk analysis and probabilistic techniques to evaluate project cost and schedule uncertainty • Advanced experience with Monte Carlo simulation, cost and schedule risk analysis, scenario analysis, and risk-based contingency development • Strong understanding of EPC contracting, procurement, supply chain, change management, claims, and commercial risk • Proven ability to influence and constructively challenge senior project and functional leaders in a complex, fast-paced project environment • Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear business insights and recommended actions • Ability to identify systemic and correlated risks across multiple projects and provide regional-level insight to support management decision-making • Experience delivering hyperscale, AI, mission-critical, or large-scale data center programs • Knowledge of power, cooling, utility interconnection, long-lead equipment, commissioning, and MW capacity delivery • Experience with enterprise or project risk management platforms and integration with scheduling, cost management, and reporting systems • Relevant professional certification such as PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, IRM, or equivalent risk/project management credential • Working knowledge of ISO 31000, PMBOK, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001 • Experience presenting portfolio risk, contingency, schedule confidence, and emerging exposure to executive leadership and governance committees • Experience with @Risk, Riskonnect, SAFRAN, or other industry-standard software • Right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success • Retirement/pension contributions • Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits • Generous number of vacation days each year • Discretionary bonus • Global benefits tailored where legally applicable