Senior Quantity & Progress Lead – Project Controls

Jacobs; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for an ongoing on-site assignment in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA, with future projects across the U.S. You will lead progress tracking, quantity reporting, and earned value management within a dedicated project controls team.

You’ll maintain databases and dashboards, validate contractor progress, and support payment reviews while collaborating with construction teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project controls, construction progress tracking, quantity surveying, cost controls, scheduling, or related field.
• Experience tracking and reporting installed quantities and physical progress on large industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, or mission-critical projects.
• Working knowledge of construction sequencing, installation methods, and field execution practices across multiple disciplines.
• Experience validating contractor progress and supporting progress payment reviews.
• Understanding of earned value management (EVM) principles and progress measurement methodologies.
• Ability to analyze planned versus actual progress and identify schedule or productivity 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 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

EVM concepts

Education

Construction management degree

Tools

Oracle

EcoSys

Unifier

Synchro

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Quantity and Progress Tracking Project Controls Professional for an ongoing on-site assignment in Spartanburg, SC or Baton Rouge, LA, with future projects across the U.S. You will lead progress tracking, quantity reporting, and earned value management within a dedicated project controls team.

You’ll maintain databases and dashboards, validate contractor progress, and support payment reviews while collaborating with construction teams and vendors.