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## Company Description **Work with Us. Change the World.** At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. ## Job Description **AECOM** is seeking a Program Risk Manager to be located in **Los Angeles, CA**. Reporting to the U.S. West and Canada Program Risk Management Lead. As an industry leader in program management and construction management for large capital programs, AECOM oversees activities ranging from planning, coordination, scheduling and cost control, to design, construction and commissioning. From concept through completion, we provide necessary technical and administrative services to help our clients meet their program objectives. We act as an extension of our clients’ staff, protecting their interests as our own. Major Responsibilities: - Promote, establish, and implement a comprehensive program risk management system aligned with program needs across the full lifecycle. - Lead the Risk Management function, providing direction, leadership, and motivation to staff while fostering a strong risk-aware culture. - Ensure adequate resources, tools, and systems are in place for the efficient identification, assessment, and treatment of risks and opportunities. - Deliver program risk management services in alignment with governance frameworks, processes, and program objectives. - Develop and implement robust risk management plans, including methodologies for risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting. - Provide both embedded risk management support and discrete risk interventions as part of the overall program delivery team. - Drive value by mitigating threats, reducing risk exposure, and maximizing opportunities across the program. - Facilitate structured risk workshops, value engineering sessions, and lessons learned reviews using advanced methodologies. - Conduct day-to-day risk management activities, including risk identification, prioritization, risk register management, action planning, and monitoring. - Produce regular risk reporting, including risk exposure, drawdown, and analysis of changes in risk profiles. - Perform advanced Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), including cost, schedule, and integrated cost-schedule analysis to support forecasting and decision-making. - Ensure identification and effective management of all significant risks impacting program objectives. - Act as a risk management ambassador by coaching and mentoring stakeholders on risk processes and best practices. - Establish the program’s strategic and contract risk management approach, including defining risk assessment requirements, mitigation planning, and tracking effectiveness. - Schedule and conduct risk interviews and support facilitation of program risk workshops. - Review and analyze integrated cost and schedule risk models to validate assumptions and outputs. - Lead risk assessments, risk reviews, and formal risk meetings. - Monitor risks at both strategic and tactical levels, ensuring proactive mitigation of threats and identification of opportunities. - Integrate risk data with schedule and cost frameworks to support decision-making, mitigation planning, and pe…