Junior Project Controls: Quantity & Progress Tracker

Jacobs; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs seeks a Junior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional to support site-based assignments across the United States, with initial deployments in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA. The role focuses on tracking installed quantities, progress, and earned value to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

You will work with the project controls team, field crews, and vendors to maintain data integrity, update dashboards, and assist in progress reporting for large

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls, scheduling
• Experience tracking and reporting installed quantities and physical progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the project quantity database
• Track quantity growth, scope changes, and quantity trends throughout the project lifecycle
• 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 project progress
• Review and verify contractor-reported progress against field conditions and measurable quantities
• Conduct or support field walkdowns to validate progress and installed work
• Calculate earned quantities, earned progress, and percent complete for reporting purposes
• 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

Construction progress tracking

Quantity surveying

Cost controls

Scheduling

Progress reporting

Data analysis

Field execution knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management / Engineering / Project Controls / Quantity Surveying

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

Jacobs seeks a Junior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional to support site-based assignments across the United States, with initial deployments in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA. The role focuses on tracking installed quantities, progress, and earned value to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

You will work with the project controls team, field crews, and vendors to maintain data integrity, update dashboards, and assist in progress reporting for large