Senior Enterprise Project Controls Lead

CDM Smith; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls for a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal projects. You will shape governance, platforms, and analytics to deliver safe, profitable, and predictable outcomes.

You will advance digital transformation by modernizing controls, workflows, reporting, and AI-enabled forecasting across the enterprise, while guiding a distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document professionals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and 15+ years of related experience preferred.
• PMP or PgM certification required.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically or internationally.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise project controls strategy, standards, methodologies, and governance model across regions.
• Establish controls for design-build, CMAR, and other integrated delivery models.
• Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, and schedule integration.
• Develop dashboards and actionable insights for margin, backlog, cash flow, and risk.
• Lead modernization of platforms, data, and workflows with AI-enabled forecasting.
• Set standards for document management and data quality across projects.
• Collaborate with leadership and delivery teams to improve predictability and profitability.
• Develop talent and build a high-performing, distributed project controls community.

Skills

Leadership

Project controls

Digital transformation

Cost engineering

Scheduling

Risk management

Analytics

Communication

Stakeholder management

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP or PgM certification

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 for a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal projects. You will shape governance, platforms, and analytics to deliver safe, profitable, and predictable outcomes.

You will advance digital transformation by modernizing controls, workflows, reporting, and AI-enabled forecasting across the enterprise, while guiding a distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document professionals.