Senior Manager, Project Controls & Digital Transformation

CDM Smith; Lawton (OK); Hybrid; 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 in the water, municipal, industrial, and federal sectors. This role drives governance, platforms, analytics, and talent to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The ideal candidate has deep leadership in project controls for integrated design-build and alternative delivery, with a track record in digital transformation and AI-enabled forecasting across an

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 15+ years of related experience.
• PMP or PgM certification required.
• Travel may be required up to 50%.

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, integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, change management, contract administration, claims avoidance, and recovery planning.
• 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.
• Lead modernization of project controls platforms, data, and workflows. Champion automation, integrated reporting, AI-enabled forecasting, predictive risk identification, and performance monitoring.
• Establish scalable standards for document management, records, configuration control, collaboration platforms, data quality, traceability, and digital project delivery.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, operations, project management, finance, legal, risk management, procurement, and delivery teams to improve project predictability, profitability, and client outcomes.
• 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.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Integrated design-build

Digital transformation

Cost & scheduling

Communication & analytics

Talent development

Stakeholder management

Leadership

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 in the water, municipal, industrial, and federal sectors. This role drives governance, platforms, analytics, and talent to deliver projects safely, profitably, and predictably.

The ideal candidate has deep leadership in project controls for integrated design-build and alternative delivery, with a track record in digital transformation and AI-enabled forecasting across an