Enterprise Project Controls Leader

CDM Smith; Kaneohe (HI); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal programs. This role will standardize governance, systems, analytics, and talent to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The candidate will drive digital transformation, modernize workflows, and create predictive insights while coordinating with pursuit, delivery, and senior leadership across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 15 or more years of related experience.
• PMP or PgM certification required.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise project controls strategy, standards, methodologies, and governance model; drive consistent adoption across business units and regions.
• Establish project controls approaches for design-build, progressive design-build, CMAR, construction management, and other integrated delivery models.
• Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, change management, contract administration, claims avoidance, and recovery planning.
• Develop leading indicators, project health reviews, executive dashboards, and actionable insights for margin, backlog, cash flow, labor productivity, schedule performance, forecasting accuracy, and delivery risk.
• Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows; champion automation, integrated reporting, AI-enabled forecasting, and predictive risk identification.
• Establish scalable standards for document management, records, configuration control, collaboration platforms, data quality, traceability, and digital project delivery.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, operations, project management, finance, legal, risk management, procurement, and delivery teams.
• Lead and develop a geographically distributed organization of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Cost & scheduling

Communication

Change management

Talent development

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

EcoSys

Acumen Fuse

Oracle

Textura

Power BI

Job description

CDM Smith seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal programs. This role will standardize governance, systems, analytics, and talent to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The candidate will drive digital transformation, modernize workflows, and create predictive insights while coordinating with pursuit, delivery, and senior leadership across regions.