Senior Manager, Enterprise Project Controls

CDM Smith

Casper (WY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 263,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise governance, standards, and analytics for a large portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal projects. This role drives modernization of controls platforms, reporting, and predictive insights across the firm.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in integrated design-build, earned value, scheduling, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration, with a proven track record of developing talent and delivering

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

Enterprise Leadership and Governance: Define the enterprise project controls strategy, standards, methodologies, and governance model; drive consistent adoption across business units and regions.
Integrated Design-Build and Alternative Delivery: Establish project controls approaches for design-build, progressive design-build, CMAR, construction management, and other integrated delivery models.
Cost, Schedule, and Commercial Controls: Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, change management, contract administration, claims avoidance, and recovery planning.
Portfolio Performance and Risk: 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.
Digital Transformation and Innovation: Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows. Champion automation, integrated reporting, AI-enabled forecasting, predictive risk identification, and performance monitoring.
Information and Document Controls: Establish scalable standards for document management, records, configuration control, collaboration platforms, data quality, traceability, and digital project delivery.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with executive leadership, operations, project management, finance, legal, risk management, procurement, and delivery teams to improve project predictability, profitability, and client outcomes.
Team and Capability Development: Lead and develop a geographically distributed organization of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals. Build career paths, competency models, training, succession plans, and a strong enterprise project controls community.