Onsite Planning & Cost Control Lead (P6)

Jacobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Company stock purchase

PPTO & holidays

Job summary

Jacobs seeks an experienced, hands-on Planning, Scheduling, and Cost Control Professional to join our project controls team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This mid-level role combines schedule leadership with cost management to drive timely, cost-efficient project delivery while collaborating across engineering, construction, and commercial teams.

You will lead development of schedules, manage EVM reporting, and mentor junior staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years planning and scheduling on engineering/construction projects.
• Minimum 5 years cost management / cost control.
• Degree in a related field.
• Expert Primavera P6 with resource/cost loading and Earned Value reporting.
• Experience with Earned Value Management.
• Strong Excel skills (tables, XLOOKUP, INDEX, filtering).
• Understanding of building construction methods and industry practices.
• Experience with claims analysis and change orders.
• Proven planning and scheduling approach beyond a P6 admin.
• On-site daily work with client.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of project schedules, including CPM logic.
• Load resources and costs, analyze milestones and percent complete.
• Prepare and present schedule and cost analysis reports.
• Manage change control and time impact analysis; support claims.
• Process cost data, forecast cash flows and variances.
• Monitor budgets, actuals, and forecasts; suggest corrective actions.
• Provide Earned Value Management reporting.
• Collaborate with estimating, planning, risk and project leadership.
• Mentor junior project controls staff.
• Ensure controls satisfy contract requirements and support invoicing.
• Participate in constructability/value engineering reviews.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Cost control

Earned Value Mgmt

Excel (XLOOKUP)

On-site work

Education

Degree in related field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Excel

Job description

Jacobs seeks an experienced, hands-on Planning, Scheduling, and Cost Control Professional to join our project controls team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This mid-level role combines schedule leadership with cost management to drive timely, cost-efficient project delivery while collaborating across engineering, construction, and commercial teams.

You will lead development of schedules, manage EVM reporting, and mentor junior staff.