Senior Enterprise Project Controls Leader

CDM Smith; Fresno (CA); Hybrid; 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 municipal, industrial, and federal projects. You will establish governance, standards, and platforms to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The role emphasizes deep leadership in design-build environments, digital transformation, and cross-functional collaboration to improve margins and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

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

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

Skills

Project controls leadership

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Cost engineering

Scheduling

Analytics

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

15+ years of related experience

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 across a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal projects. You will establish governance, standards, and platforms to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The role emphasizes deep leadership in design-build environments, digital transformation, and cross-functional collaboration to improve margins and delivery outcomes.