Risk Manager (Heavy Civil Infrastructure)

Location: California, USA

Salary: $125,000–$200,000 per year ($60–$96 per hour)

Company

hirify.global supports large, complex infrastructure programs across transportation, aviation, and water/wastewater sectors.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain risk management plans, processes, governance frameworks, and program risk registers.
• Facilitate risk identification and assessment workshops with program staff, designers, contractors, and third-party stakeholders.
• Quantify cost and schedule exposure using Monte Carlo or comparable simulations and recommend contingency levels tied to confidence thresholds.
• Analyze schedules, cost forecasts, change logs, delay claims, and time impact analyses to identify program exposure.
• Track mitigation actions, coordinate risks across utilities, railroads, adjacent contracts, and active facilities, and escalate stalled actions.
• Prepare risk and contingency materials for funding submissions, board packages, oversight reviews, dashboards, and written reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, construction engineering, engineering management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of risk management experience on large, complex heavy-civil infrastructure projects valued above $500 million.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and maintaining program risk registers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience performing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis and converting results into contingency and mitigation recommendations.
• Working knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost forecasting, and industry-standard tools such as Primavera Risk Analysis, Deltek Acumen Fuse, @Risk, and Primavera P6.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or construction discipline.
• PMI-RMP, PMP, DRMP, CCP, or similar professional certification.
• Experience leading owner-side risk management for programs exceeding $1 billion in construction value.
• Experience with contractor delay claims, concurrent delay, time impact analyses, and executive or funding-agency contingency reviews.
• Experience with Power BI, Oracle Cloud Analytics, or other dashboard and KPI reporting tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited flexible time off and paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave, health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a guaranteed employer contribution and flexible spending accounts.
• $2,500 annually for professional development, plus formal career planning.
• Wellness stipend, phone reimbursement, financial planning, meal planning, employee assistance, and discount programs.
• Employment eligibility is verified through E-Verify; background checks and drug testing may apply after a conditional offer.

Hiring process

• This is a future-hire talent-pool position rather than an active project opening.
• Applications and interviews are conducted in advance; selected candidates are notified first when a relevant project need arises.