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.
This position will be based out of the Nexus Cleveland Office with up to 50% travel to Akron, OH.
Key Accountabilities
Establish and govern an enterprise grade project-level risk management framework aligned to mega-project governance with project controls, stage gates, and executive oversight
Integrate qualitative and quantitative risk analysis with cost and schedule forecasting to support contingency setting, forecasting, and project management decisions
Serve as an independent, objective advisor to project leadership on project health, uncertainty, and emerging threats with authority to challenge assumptions and forecasts
Enable proactive, analytics-based decision-making through clear risk reporting, trends, and early warning indicators through integrated cost/schedule analytics and scenario modeling.
Embed a strong risk culture across the project team, emphasizing risk ownership, monitoring, mitigation execution, and accountability
Own integration of risk into project forecasts and contingency strategy
Core Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the project risk management plan, risk taxonomy, scoring criteria, and governance cadence
Lead structured, cross functional risk identification and mitigation workshops across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning
Maintain a high-quality, audit ready risk register with clear risk statements, ownership, triggers, and residual risk
Perform cost and schedule quantitative risk analysis, quantifying uncertainty into probabilistic cost and schedule forecasts
Validate and recommend contingency levels based on quantitative analysis, track risk burndown, and assess mitigation effectiveness over time
Lead integration with project controls on baseline strategy, forecast credibility, progress measurement, and performance trends
Evaluate supply chain and execution risks, including long lead equipment, fabrication, logistics, labor, productivity, and site constraints and assess impact on cost, schedule and execution strategy.
Interface with contracts and commercial teams to assess risk allocation, change exposure, and claims risk
Monitor regulatory, permitting, interconnection, and stakeholder related risks
Produce concise executive level dashboards, narratives, and decision support materials
Support stage gate reviews, independent project assessments, and assurance activities
Perform Monte Carlo based Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis
Define and standardize risk workshop methodology and facilitation approach
Qualifications
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.
Competitive Benefits
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Why Nexus?
Nexus Engineering Group, a distinguished independent full-service engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) firm, provides comprehensive support to clients from concept through startup. With over a decade of demonstrated engineering and design success, Nexus stands out as the firm of choice for those valuing integrity and expertise.
At Nexus, you will be part of a talented and passionate team dedicated to excellence and innovation. We foster a collaborative and engaging work environment, making it a place where you’ll enjoy contributing to impactful projects. Joining Nexus means aligning with a firm renowned for its creativity, dedication, and relentless focus on achieving client goals.
Equal Opportunity Employer & Reasonable Accommodation
Nexus Engineering Group, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Nexus Engineering Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualifies individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require and accommodation to participate in any part of the recruitment process please contact us at [email protected].
Sponsorship & Work Authorization
Nexus Engineering Group is unable to sponsor employment authorization in the United States for this position.
Third‑Party Agency Notice
Nexus Engineering Group does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from external recruiters or agencies. We only engage approved third‑party partners under a written agreement initiated by our Talent Acquisition team for specific searches. Any resumes submitted without prior authorization or a current agreement will not be eligible for placement fees and will be considered the property of Nexus Engineering Group.
What We Do
Nexus Engineering Group is a full-service, independent engineering firm focused on supporting clients’ specific project goals from concept to startup. With more than a dozen years of proven engineering and design successes, Nexus is the preferred engineering firm of choice when seeking integrity and expertise. Nexus performs best when faced with complex and demanding projects in the refining, petroleum midstream, chemical, manufacturing and utilities industries. Our teams have the talent and moxie to tackle all sizes of projects for local and international clients seeking to design, build, and construct highly technical and functional facilities. With more than 200 professionals that you’ll genuinely like working with, Nexus is more than just your typical engineering firm. Clients come to us for our expertise, creativity, passion, and relentless focus on their goals.
