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Volta is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform with the mission to make compute as dependable and available as electricity. The company has secured $10B in strategic partnerships and $5B in AI Infrastructure funding, with rapid growth from 100+ to hundreds of employees across London, Palo Alto, and New York.
The Project Risk Manager, North America will lead the regional risk management program across Volta's North American portfolio. This is a hands-on role that combines technical risk management expertise with business partnering alongside project directors, engineers, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams.
Key responsibilities include:
**Leadership & Governance:** Establish consistent risk governance, standards, processes, and methodologies across the regional portfolio. Integrate risk management throughout the project lifecycle across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Commercial, Commissioning, and Operations. Provide independent risk oversight and constructive challenge to project and functional leadership. Promote a proactive risk culture focused on early identification, ownership, accountability, and risk-informed decision-making. Serve as regional risk management subject matter expert and advisor to project, regional, and executive leadership.
**Risk Management:** Lead identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and closure of risks and opportunities. Build and maintain project risk registers with appropriate ownership, mitigation strategies, action plans, and escalation paths. Evaluate key EPC delivery risks across design, permitting, utility interconnection, procurement, construction, commercial performance, commissioning, and MW capacity delivery. Consolidate and evaluate project risks at regional level to identify emerging, systemic, and correlated risks. Promote identification and realization of opportunities related to cost, schedule, standardization, and procurement.
**Risk Analysis:** Lead qualitative and quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation and probabilistic techniques. Assess cost exposure, schedule uncertainty, critical-path risks, and confidence in achieving committed milestones. Develop risk-based recommendations for project contingency and management reserves. Analyze common and correlated regional risks to identify portfolio impacts and mitigation priorities. Provide risk analysis to support investment decisions, stage gates, baseline approvals, and major contract awards.
**Reporting & Analytics:** Develop concise project and regional reporting of top risks, opportunities, emerging exposures, trends, and mitigation effectiveness. Create project and portfolio dashboards providing visibility into risk exposure, trends, and confidence in achieving cost, schedule, and capacity commitments. Monitor and report mitigation progress, overdue actions, and significant issues requiring escalation. Provide risk information for project reviews, leadership meetings, and executive governance forums.
**Risk Assurance & Improvement:** Conduct periodic project risk reviews and health checks. Test key project assumptions, forecasts, and mitigation strategies. Identify recurring risks and successful mitigation strategies across the portfolio. Drive continuous improvement of risk processes, methodologies, tools, and organizational capability.
**Requirements:**
Essential:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience
- Significant experience in risk management, project controls, or project delivery within complex EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, mission-critical, or major capital programs
- Demonstrated experience leading project and portfolio risk management, including identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, escalation, and assurance
- Strong understanding of cost, schedule, contingency, and project controls principles and their integration with project risk management
- Experience applying quantitative risk analysis and probabilistic techniques to evaluate project cost and schedule uncertainty
- Advanced experience with Monte Carlo simulation, cost and schedule risk analysis, scenario analysis, and risk-based contingency development
- Strong understanding of EPC contracting, procurement, supply chain, change management, claims, and commercial risk
- Proven ability to influence and constructively challenge senior project and functional leaders in complex, fast-paced environments
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills with ability to translate complex risk information into clear business insights
- Ability to identify systemic and correlated risks across multiple projects and provide regional-level insight
Desirable:
- Experience delivering hyperscale, AI, mission-critical, or large-scale Data Center programs with knowledge of power, cooling, utility interconnection, long-lead equipment, commissioning, and MW capacity delivery
- Experience with enterprise or project risk management platforms integrated with scheduling, cost management, and reporting systems
- Professional certification such as PMI-RMP, PMP, AACE, IRM, or equivalent risk/project management credential
- Working knowledge of ISO 31000, PMBOK, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and associated standards
- Experience presenting portfolio risk, contingency, schedule confidence, and emerging exposure to executive leadership
- Experience with @Risk, Riskonnect, SAFRAN, or other industry-standard software
