Senior Manager, Enterprise Project Controls & Digital

CDM Smith; San Diego (CA); On-site; 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 define governance, methods, and analytics to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably, partnering with pursuit and delivery teams.

The ideal leader brings deep experience with integrated design-build, alternative delivery, and digital transformation—modernizing platforms, workflows, reporting, automation, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is 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.
• Strengthen budgeting, earned value management, forecasting, variance analysis, and scheduling.
• Develop leading indicators, project health reviews, dashboards, and actionable insights for margin, backlog, cash flow, and risk.
• Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows; champion automation and AI-enabled forecasting.
• Establish scalable standards for document management and data quality in project delivery.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and delivery teams to improve predictability and client outcomes.
• Lead and develop a geographically distributed team of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.

Skills

Leadership in project controls

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Analytics / AI forecasting

Cost & scheduling controls

Stakeholder management

Team development

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

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 define governance, methods, and analytics to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably, partnering with pursuit and delivery teams.

The ideal leader brings deep experience with integrated design-build, alternative delivery, and digital transformation—modernizing platforms, workflows, reporting, automation, and