Risk Manager Jobs in Texas
Risk manager jobs in Texas are in strong demand, with openings concentrated in financial services, energy, healthcare, and insurance across seniority levels from analyst to senior risk officer. Houston, Dallas, and Austin account for the largest share of postings, where employers like JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, and USAA maintain substantial operations. The most sought-after specialties in Texas are enterprise risk management, operational risk, and financial risk within highly regulated industries. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
- Use risk data to inform investment planning.
- Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
- Work with contractors to assess contractors held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
- Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
- Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of risk management services for the client.
- Undertake end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs.
- Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
- Conduct risk reviews at regular intervals, identify and analyze, determine response plans, ensure that project and program risk profiles are being monitored and reported.
- Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.
- Establish integration of the risk management function within the program and project controls team, with direct touch points to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
- Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
- Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues.
- Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
- Collaborate on the supplier performance management program including the collection of performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
- Demonstrate a level of support to expert witnesses in arbitral or ligation processes.
- Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
- Carry out assessment of contractual claims in accordance with the contract.
- Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and related resolution issues.
- Evaluate delay recovery measures.
- Carry out change management and construction stage cost control.
- Supervise the measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
- Manage the settlement of final accounts with contractors
Project/Program specifications:
- Project/Program specific responsibilities: FTA Expertise in risk assessment completion
- Market sector experience: Infra / Transit
- Project/program size in dollar value: $8bn
- Software specific requirements: Procore PMIS / Oracle / Bluebeam
- Certification requirements: N/A
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
- Minimum 3 years of applicable experience
- Relevant construction project risk management experience.
- Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment
- Deep knowledge and experience with FTA Risk Procedures, risk identification & mitigation, facilitation and techniques.
- Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
- In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercial models, and delivery methods.
- Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
- Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau
- Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.
- Excellent communication skills.
Additional Information
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
#LI-MW2
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
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.
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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team. The ideal individual will be an experienced risk professional that has supported large scale construction projects.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat/opportunity.
- Use risk data to inform investment planning.
- Monitor overall risk exposure and assess the remaining risk budget.
- Work with contractors to assess contractors held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them.
- Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat and opportunity status.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
- Initiate a proactive approach to the review, development and improvement of risk management services for the client.
- Undertake end-to-end project risk management practices on multiple projects/programs.
- Undertake the creation of risk management plans and processes in adherence to client requirements, processes, policies, and frameworks.
- Conduct risk reviews at regular intervals, identify and analyze, determine response plans, ensure that project and program risk profiles are being monitored and reported.
- Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost-effective risk assessment (QCRA & QSRA) process is delivered.
- Establish integration of the risk management function within the program and project controls team, with direct touch points to cost and schedule management, change control, and reporting.
- Work proactively and collaboratively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvement opportunities.
- Provide opportunities to facilitate the transfer of knowledge within the immediate risk team, to the greater project controls team, and to the client. The transfer of knowledge may include informal one-on-one discussions with client stakeholders and more formal presentations to clients and colleagues.
- Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions to minimize waste (both in terms of speed and cost).
- Collaborate on the supplier performance management program including the collection of performance metrics and tracking supplier improvement action plans.
- Demonstrate a level of support to expert witnesses in arbitral or ligation processes.
- Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
- Carry out assessment of contractual claims in accordance with the contract.
- Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and related resolution issues.
- Evaluate delay recovery measures.
- Carry out change management and construction stage cost control.
- Supervise the measurement and valuation of completed works and variations.
- Manage the settlement of final accounts with contractors
Project/Program specifications:
- Project/Program specific responsibilities: FTA Expertise in risk assessment completion
- Market sector experience: Infra / Transit
- Project/program size in dollar value: $8bn
- Software specific requirements: Procore PMIS / Oracle / Bluebeam
- Certification requirements: N/A
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
- Minimum 3 years of applicable experience
- Relevant construction project risk management experience.
- Demonstrated experience within a Program Management or Program Controls environment
- Deep knowledge and experience with FTA Risk Procedures, risk identification & mitigation, facilitation and techniques.
- Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
- In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercial models, and delivery methods.
- Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
- Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau
- Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.
- Excellent communication skills.
Additional Information
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
#LI-MW2
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
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.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Telecommunications
- Retail
- Accounting & Auditing
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in risk manager jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, accounting, or a related field required
- Professional certification such as FRM, CRM, or CRISC strongly preferred by Texas employers
- Three or more years of risk management or financial analysis experience in a regulated industry
- Demonstrated proficiency with risk management frameworks such as COSO or ISO 31000
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data modeling or enterprise risk software
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for reporting to senior leadership and regulators
Risk Manager Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a risk manager in Texas?
The typical path starts with a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related discipline, followed by entry-level work in audit, compliance, or financial analysis. Texas has no state-issued license specific to risk management, but professional certifications carry real weight with employers here. The Financial Risk Manager designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals and the Certified Risk Manager credential from the National Alliance in Austin are the most recognized in the Texas market.
Which companies hire risk managers in Texas?
Employers hiring risk managers in Texas right now include Amazon, PayPal, and Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Texas's concentration of energy companies, regional banks, insurance carriers, and large hospital systems means demand stays consistent across multiple industries rather than depending on a single sector.
Which Texas cities have the most risk manager jobs?
Houston, Austin, and Dallas have the most risk manager openings in Texas. Houston leads because of its density of energy firms, petrochemical companies, and large financial institutions, while Dallas draws volume from corporate headquarters in banking, insurance, and technology, and Austin's fast-growing fintech and healthcare sectors have added steady demand in recent years.
Are there remote risk manager jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than many fields, since risk management is primarily an analytical and advisory function that does not require hands-on presence. About 74% of risk manager openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how widely the role translates to distributed work. Enterprise risk, credit risk modeling, and compliance-focused positions tend to offer the most remote flexibility.
How can I get hired as a risk manager in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a role in audit, compliance, financial analysis, or insurance underwriting, all of which build directly applicable skills. Large Texas employers like USAA, Frost Bank, and Memorial Hermann run rotational or associate programs that place early-career candidates in risk functions. Earning the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation or completing the National Alliance's risk management coursework in Austin gives candidates a concrete credential that opens doors with Texas insurers and corporations hiring at the associate level.
Where can I find and apply to risk manager jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to risk manager jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the Texas market. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the employer without going through a third party.
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