Senior Project Controls - Quantity & Progress Tracker

Able Too Work; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment with potential across the U.S. This role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors throughout the project lifecycle.

You will maintain the project quantity database, track growth and trends, define progress criteria, validate contractor progress, conduct field walkdowns, and support weekly/monthly

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls, scheduling, or a related degree.
• Experience tracking installed quantities and progress on large industrial or infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, installation methods, and field execution practices.
• Experience validating contractor progress and supporting progress payments.
• Understanding of earned value management (EVM) and progress measurement methodologies.
• Ability to analyze planned vs actual progress and identify variances.
• Experience supporting weekly and monthly project reporting.

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 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

Quantity surveying

Scheduling

Earned value management

Education

Construction Management degree

Engineering degree

Project Controls degree

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for a site-based assignment with potential across the U.S. This role focuses on accurate progress tracking, quantities installed reporting, and collaboration with construction teams and vendors throughout the project lifecycle.

You will maintain the project quantity database, track growth and trends, define progress criteria, validate contractor progress, conduct field walkdowns, and support weekly/monthly