Head of Enterprise Project Controls & Digital

CDM Smith; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio of integrated design‑build projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. This role will establish governance, systems, analytics, and talent development to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with integrated design-build, alternative delivery, and digital transformation, and will oversee budgeting, scheduling,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; PMP or PgM certification preferred.
• 15+ years of related project controls experience.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale controls programs.

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, and claims avoidance.
• 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 and AI-enabled forecasting.
• Establish scalable standards for document management, records, configuration control, collaboration platforms, and data quality.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, operations, finance, legal, risk management, procurement, and delivery teams to improve project predictability and client outcomes.
• Lead and develop a geographically distributed organization of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals; build career paths and training.

Skills

Leadership of project controls

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Budgeting & scheduling

Stakeholder management

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

EcoSys

Acumen Fuse

Oracle

Textura

Power BI

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio of integrated design‑build projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. This role will establish governance, systems, analytics, and talent development to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with integrated design-build, alternative delivery, and digital transformation, and will oversee budgeting, scheduling,