Senior Project Controls Leader, Enterprise & Digital

CDM Smith; Oklahoma City (OK); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Controls to lead enterprise-wide project controls for a large portfolio of integrated design-build projects across municipal, industrial, and federal clients.

This role will shape governance, systems, analytics, and talent, advancing digital transformation while ensuring safe, profitable, and predictable project delivery across the enterprise.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise project controls strategy and governance.
• Establish controls for design-build, CMAR, and other delivery models.
• Strengthen budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, and earned value management.
• Develop dashboards and actionable insights for margin and delivery risk.
• Lead modernization of project controls platforms and AI-enabled forecasting.
• Set standards for document management and data quality.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Build and mentor a distributed team of schedulers and cost controllers.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Executive communication

Change management

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Talent development

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-wide project controls for a large portfolio of integrated design-build projects across municipal, industrial, and federal clients.

This role will shape governance, systems, analytics, and talent, advancing digital transformation while ensuring safe, profitable, and predictable project delivery across the enterprise.