Enterprise Project Controls Leader

CDM Smith

Newark (DE)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 263,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to provide enterprise leadership for our project controls function across a large portfolio of design-build projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. This enterprise role will establish and continuously improve governance, systems, analytics, and talent to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The ideal candidate brings deep project controls leadership within the AEC industry, including experience with

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise project controls strategy, standards, methodologies, and governance model.
Establish project controls approaches for design-build, CMAR, and other integrated delivery models.
Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, and scheduling.
Develop indicators, dashboards, and actionable insights for margin and risk.
Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and reporting.
Establish scalable standards for document management and data quality.
Collaborate with leadership and delivery teams to improve client outcomes.
Lead a dispersed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.