National Practice Consultant - Risk Management
Company websitehntb.com (HNTB, opens in new tab)
Base salary From $274,665
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in United States
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- LocationUnited States
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (21 min ago) · observed since
All 4 locations
- Washington, DC
- San Jose, CA
- Charlotte, NC
- Philadelphia, PA (Pennsylvania)
About this job
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
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.#NF.
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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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Source: HNTB on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($274,665) is above 98% of the 75 Business Operations roles in Washington, DC listed on this site. Their median floor is $138,200; the middle half runs from $115,000 to $166,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingNational Practice Consultant - Risk ManagementFrom $274,665
Senior Project Director$274,665 to $438,751
Design Manager – Design Build Highway/ Managed LanesFrom $262,723
Design Manager - Transit Design BuildFrom $262,723
Minnesota Office LeaderFrom $238,839
Project Director$238,839 to $381,523
Toll Program ManagerFrom $228,455
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| National Practice Consultant - Risk Management (this listing) | From $274,665 |
| Senior Project Director | $274,665 - $438,751 |
| Design Manager – Design Build Highway/ Managed Lanes | From $262,723 |
| Design Manager - Transit Design Build | From $262,723 |
| Minnesota Office Leader | From $238,839 |
| Project Director | $238,839 - $381,523 |
| Toll Program Manager | From $228,455 |
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- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-03
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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 es
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