Senior Project Controls: Quantities & Progress (On-Site)

Jacobs; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will join a dedicated project controls team, work with construction teams and vendors, and help define measurement procedures, earned value concepts, and reporting dashboards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls, scheduling, or a related degree.
• Experience tracking and reporting installed quantities and physical progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects.
• Understanding of earned value management (EVM) principles and progress measurement methodologies.

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

Progress tracking

Earned value management

Data analysis

Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

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

You will join a dedicated project controls team, work with construction teams and vendors, and help define measurement procedures, earned value concepts, and reporting dashboards.