Indo-Pacific Delivery Leader & Program Manager

CDM Smith; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 134,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith seeks a Delivery Leader / Program Manager to lead and expand our federal construction portfolio across the Indo-Pacific region. You will drive pursuit efforts, build teams, and manage schedules, budgets, and client relationships to deliver complex projects on time and within scope.

Travel up to 50% may be required; you will partner with sales to scope and cost new work, ensure profitability, and maintain rigorous risk controls across challenging environments and remote locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of related project delivery experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% annually.
• Experience with global/ Indo-Pacific programs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop pursuit strategies, including teaming partners, bidding tactics, and resources required to successfully deliver projects in highly complex and remote islands in the Indo-Pacific.
• Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Create project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects using experience in executing work in difficult locations.
• Prepare detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gains concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects.
• Assess potential project risk and outlines risk mitigation solutions. Ensures adherence to company and project management policies, procedures, and practices.
• Manage project costs and is responsible for ensuring profitability. Identifies, quantifies, and communicates residual risk (time and cost).
• Perform ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitors project risks; identifies possible risks and recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions; escalates as appropriate.
• Work in conjunction with team members and internal and external stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project.
• Develops and implements project resource plan and manages the staffing of assigned projects.
• Determines and coordinates the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensures procurement processes are followed.
• Builds, maintains and manages strong client relationships.
• Ensures client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; manages client expectations.
• Works collaboratively with sales leaders to evaluate potential new work and supports the scoping and costing effort.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Budgeting

Risk management

Client relationship management

Communication

Team building

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor9s degree

10+ years experience

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

CDM Smith seeks a Delivery Leader / Program Manager to lead and expand our federal construction portfolio across the Indo-Pacific region. You will drive pursuit efforts, build teams, and manage schedules, budgets, and client relationships to deliver complex projects on time and within scope.

Travel up to 50% may be required; you will partner with sales to scope and cost new work, ensure profitability, and maintain rigorous risk controls across challenging environments and remote locations.