Risk Lead

Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please note this position is fully on-site in Montréal.

Job Description
As part of a major project, we are seeking a
Risk Management Lead
. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive risk management framework from program inception, tailored to the delivery of large-scale mining projects.
• Facilitating risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and mitigation planning across all project phases.
• Maintaining and managing risk registers, ensuring risks are properly assessed, categorized, and updated.
• Acting as an excellent communicator, challenging established practices, promoting efficiency, and clearly conveying key issues and messages to senior management and the board.
• Demonstrating proven experience in conducting integrated schedule and cost risk analyses (QSRA and QCRA).
• Performing advanced risk modeling (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations) to support contingency planning and decision-making.
• Integrating risk information into project controls, including cost and schedule forecasting.
• Delivering clear, actionable risk reports and dashboards to management and stakeholders.
• Organizing and facilitating risk workshops, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensuring compliance with mining industry best practices and regulatory standards for risk governance.

Qualifications

• University degree in engineering, risk management, project management, or a related field.
• Over 10 years of experience in project risk management, with strong expertise in the mining or extractive industries.
• Professional risk management certification (e.g., PMI-RMP, AACE-PRMP, or equivalent).
• Proficiency with risk analysis tools such as @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, or Safran Risk.
• Strong understanding of integrated project controls and risk-based decision-making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.