Enterprise Project Controls Leader (Design‑Build)

CDM Smith; Mobile (AL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith in the United States seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise controls across a large portfolio of design-build projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. You will shape governance, platforms, and analytics to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The role requires deep experience with integrated delivery, digital transformation, and a distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 15+ years of related experience.
• PMP or PgM certification required.
• Willingness to travel 50%.
• Experience with municipal, industrial, and federal clients.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise project controls strategy, standards, methodologies, and governance model.
• Establish project controls approaches for design-build, progressive design-build, CMAR, and other delivery models.
• Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, and scheduling.
• Develop leading indicators, dashboards, and actionable insights on margin, cash flow, and delivery risk.
• Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows.
• Establish scalable document management and control standards.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to improve outcomes.
• Lead and develop a distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Cost engineering

Scheduling

Forecasting

Risk management

Team development

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

EcoSys

Acumen Fuse

Oracle

Textura

Power BI

Job description

CDM Smith in the United States seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise controls across a large portfolio of design-build projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. You will shape governance, platforms, and analytics to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The role requires deep experience with integrated delivery, digital transformation, and a distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.