Senior Quantity & Progress Controls Lead

Jacobs; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Unlimited PTO

Caregiver leave

Job summary

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

Join a dedicated controls team, work with construction teams and vendors, and influence earned value, progress quantities, and reporting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in project controls or related fields.
• Experience tracking installed quantities on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects.
• Understanding of earned value management (EVM) principles and progress measurement.
• Ability to analyze planned vs actual progress and identify variances.
• Experience supporting weekly and monthly project reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the project quantity database.
• Track quantity growth, scope changes, and quantity trends across the lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain progress measurement procedures and weighting.
• Define measurable progress quantities and percent-complete criteria.
• Collect, validate, and track installed quantities to measure progress.
• Review contractor-reported progress against field conditions and quantities.
• Support field walkdowns to validate progress and installed work.
• Calculate earned quantities, earned progress, and percent complete.
• Monitor planned vs. actual quantities and productivity trends.
• Track completed quantities against invoices and assist progress payments.
• Maintain progress reporting tools, databases, Power BI dashboards, and systems.

Skills

Project controls

Progress tracking

EVM principles

Data analysis

Weekly/monthly reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Controls

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

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

Join a dedicated controls team, work with construction teams and vendors, and influence earned value, progress quantities, and reporting.