National Practice Consultant - Risk Management

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have delivered solutions for some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our continued growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails serving as HNTB's national technical leader for risk management on major transit, rail, and other complex infrastructure programs. The National Practice Consultant provides technical direction, strategic advice, and hands-on support across the full project lifecycle. The role establishes and improves risk and contingency management frameworks; facilitates executive and project-level risk workshops; leads qualitative and quantitative risk analysis; and translates analysis into clear recommendations that protect scope, cost, schedule, funding, and delivery outcomes.

The successful candidate will work across offices, market sectors, practices, and disciplines to support client engagements, strategic pursuits, and 4for4 delivery. This role will partner closely with program and project management, project controls, estimating, scheduling, procurement, contracting, finance, and technical teams. The consultant will also mentor risk professionals, advance consistent tools and standards, and strengthen HNTB's national thought leadership and market position in infrastructure risk management.

What You'll Do:

• Sought out to provide technical input and possible leadership on complex projects within practice area.
• Identifies, pursues, and executes high-level projects with assigned departments, agencies, and programs.
• Manages client relationships and guides the application of HNTB services within a specific practice area to best serve the interests of the client and HNTB.
• Responsible for successful contracting and project execution, working closely with regional HNTB staff and office leadership.
• Partners with National Practice Leaders to develop and promote technical knowledge and applicability of practice area.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field
• 12 years of relevant experience
• In lieu of a degree 16 years of relevant experience

What We Prefer:

• Demonstrated expertise developing and implementing a risk management system for a major, complex transit, rail, or infrastructure program.
• Advanced knowledge of cost risk, schedule risk, contingency management, risk governance, and risk-informed decision-making.
• Ability to lead high-stakes workshops and build alignment among owners, operators, designers, contractors, regulators, funding partners, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Ability to translate complex quantitative analysis into clear executive-level insights, options, and recommendations.
• Strong consulting judgment, client presence, facilitation, writing, presentation, and quantitative analysis skills.
• Ability to independently manage major workstreams, prioritize competing demands, and maintain quality across multiple programs and geographies.
• Working knowledge of project controls, estimating, scheduling, change management, procurement, contracting, claims avoidance, and PMIS environments.
• Commitment to quality, technical excellence, collaboration, mentorship, and consistent application of national best practices.
• AACE International Project Risk Management Professional (PRMP), PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), or equivalent risk credential.
• 15 or more years of directly relevant experience, including experience leading risk management services for major infrastructure programs as an owner's representative, PM/CM consultant, designer, contractor, or integrated delivery-team member.
• Experience across planning, environmental review, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, startup, and post-construction phases.
• Experience with U.S. Department of Transportation risk and oversight processes, including FTA, FRA, FHWA, and FAA practices; familiarity with the FTA Cost Risk Assessment framework and cost-risk model.
• Hands-on proficiency with one or more quantitative risk tools such as Safran Risk, Lumivero @RISK, Primavera Risk Analysis, or Oracle Crystal Ball, plus advanced Excel capability.
• Experience integrating quantitative risk analysis with Primavera P6 schedules, cost estimates, contingency drawdown, change control, and executive dashboards.
• Established professional network and active participation in risk, project controls, program management, transit, rail, or infrastructure industry organizations.
• Demonstrated success supporting business development, strategic pursuits, client relationships, and thought leadership.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Charlotte, NC, Philadelphia, PA (Pennsylvania), San Jose, CA, Washington, DC

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The approximate pay range for the California San Francisco Bay Area is $298,549.19 - $476,903.24. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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The approximate pay range for Washington, DC is $274,665.25 - $438,750.99. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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