Senior Manager, Enterprise Project Controls

CDM Smith

Woodbury (MN)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 263,000

Full time

6 days ago

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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 modernize platforms, streamline governance, and drive predictive insights to improve profitability and delivery performance.

The role requires extensive experience in integrated delivery, strong leadership, and a focus on data-driven decision support for executive levels.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required.
15+ 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; coordinate with pursuit and delivery teams from planning through closeout.
Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, change management, contract administration, and claims avoidance.
Develop leading indicators, project health reviews, dashboards, and actionable insights for margin, backlog, cash flow, labor productivity, and delivery risk.
Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows; promote automation, integrated reporting, and AI-enabled forecasting.
Establish scalable standards for document management, records, configuration control, collaboration platforms, data quality, traceability, and digital project delivery.
Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to improve project predictability, profitability, and client outcomes.
Lead and develop a geographically distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals; build career paths and training.