Senior Leader, Project Controls & Digital Transformation

CDM Smith

Chandler (AZ)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 263,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

CDM Smith seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. The role focuses on governance, platforms modernization, and predictive analytics to improve safety, profitability, and schedule adherence.

The candidate will guide budgeting, scheduling, risk management, and change control, while developing talent across a distributed team and partnering with cross-functional leaders for optimal client

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • 15+ years of related experience across project controls leadership.
  • PMP or PgM certification required.

Responsibilities

  • Define enterprise project controls strategy, standards and governance.
  • Lead design-build and other delivery models across programs and regions.
  • Strengthen budgeting, scheduling, earned value and change management.
  • Develop dashboards and predictive insights for portfolio performance.
  • Modernize platforms, data, and workflows with AI-enabled forecasting.
  • Establish document controls and data quality standards.
  • Collaborate with executives across functions to improve profitability.
  • Lead and develop a distributed team of schedulers and cost controllers.

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 seeks a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise project controls across a large portfolio for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. The role focuses on governance, platforms modernization, and predictive analytics to improve safety, profitability, and schedule adherence.

The candidate will guide budgeting, scheduling, risk management, and change control, while developing talent across a distributed team and partnering with cross-functional leaders for optimal client

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