Junior Project Controls: Quantity & Progress Tracker

Jacobs; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 73,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

Unlimited PPTO

7 paid holidays

Caregiver leave

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Junior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA, with future on-site projects across the U.S. The role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors to support project lifecycle decisions.

You will join a project controls team, define progress quantities, validate contractor progress, and help maintain dashboards

Qualifications

• 3+ years in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls, scheduling, or related degree.
• Experience tracking installed quantities and progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy or mission-critical projects.
• Understanding of earned value management (EVM) principles and progress measurement methodologies.
• Ability to analyze planned versus actual progress and identify variances.
• Experience supporting weekly/monthly project reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the project quantity database.
• Track quantity growth, scope changes, and quantity trends.
• Establish and maintain progress measurement procedures, rules, and weighting methodologies.
• Define measurable progress quantities and percent-complete criteria for Construction.
• Collect, validate, and track installed quantities to measure actual progress.
• Review and verify contractor-reported progress against field conditions.
• Conduct or support field walkdowns to validate progress and installed work.
• Calculate earned quantities, earned progress, and percent complete for reporting.
• Monitor and report planned vs. actual quantities, progress performance, and productivity trends.
• Track completed quantities against contractor invoices and support validation of progress payments.
• Maintain progress reporting tools, databases, Power BI dashboards, and reporting systems.

Skills

Project controls

Progress tracking

EVM

PV/EV analysis

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's in Construction Management

PM Certifications desired

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Junior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA, with future on-site projects across the U.S. The role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors to support project lifecycle decisions.

You will join a project controls team, define progress quantities, validate contractor progress, and help maintain dashboards