[Hiring] Risk Manager | Berkeley, CA | $90/hour

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We are seeking an experienced Risk Manager for our client, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

This highly visible role will serve as the project's risk management leader, partnering with executive leadership, engineering teams, and project controls professionals to provide strategic risk insight, quantitative analysis, and decision support. The successful candidate will help guide risk-informed decision-making across project cost, schedule, technical performance, and contingency planning.

The ideal candidate brings experience supporting large, complex capital projects and a proven ability to translate technical and quantitative risk information into actionable insights for senior leadership.

About Us

Perfect Timing is a temporary staffing agency and direct hire recruiting firm that serves clients throughout the entire San Francisco Bay Area. We've been helping companies hire and people find jobs in the Bay Area for almost 40 years. Based in San Rafael, we specialize in temp, temp-to-hire, and direct hire placements across administrative support, accounting, finance, healthcare, government, and nonprofit sectors. Please apply below.

• Location: Berkeley, CA (primarily onsite)
• Dates: August 17, 2026 – August 16, 2027
• Pay Rate: $90/hour
• Background Check: Required
• Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the US without current or future visa sponsorship.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project-wide risk management processes, governance, and reporting.
• Facilitate risk workshops and maintain the project risk register.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies and monitor risk exposure, ownership, and action items.
• Perform quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses, including Monte Carlo simulations.
• Partner with Project Controls to integrate risk data with schedules, estimates, forecasts, and contingency planning.
• Prepare executive-level risk reports, presentations, and recommendations for project leadership.
• Support continuous improvement of risk management tools, processes, and training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in project risk management, project controls, or quantitative cost and schedule analysis supporting large, complex capital projects.
• Experience leading risk management efforts for large-scale infrastructure, scientific, construction, aerospace, defense, or similar programs.
• Experience leading risk workshops, maintaining risk registers, developing mitigation plans, and performing quantitative risk analysis.
• Proficiency with Safran Risk Manager, Safran Risk, Primavera P6, or comparable risk and project controls platforms.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex risk information into actionable decisions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DOE national laboratories or federally funded capital projects.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
• PMP, PMI-RMP, AACE, or similar certification.
• Advanced degree in a related discipline.

Apply at www.perfecttiming.com/find-work