Senior Manager, Enterprise Project Controls & Digital Transformation

CDM Smith; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise-level project controls across a diversified portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal design-build projects. You will shape standards, governance, and analytics to deliver on time, on budget, and with high quality.

You will drive integration across design, procurement, cost, schedule, risk, and commercial controls while advancing AI-enabled forecasting and automated reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 15 or more 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.
• Team and Capability Development: Lead and develop a geographically distributed organization of schedulers, cost controllers, and document control professionals.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Cost engineering

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Talent development

Communication skills

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-level project controls across a diversified portfolio of municipal, industrial, and federal design-build projects. You will shape standards, governance, and analytics to deliver on time, on budget, and with high quality.

You will drive integration across design, procurement, cost, schedule, risk, and commercial controls while advancing AI-enabled forecasting and automated reporting.