Project Controls Professional Career Level

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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Help in develop, monitor, track, analyze, forecast, and report on project budgets, estimates to complete, commitments, expenditures, project progress and productivity, work plans and schedules, projects cost at completion, WBS cost coding, subcontracts, and change management. Help in the development of the schedule for mainly engineering activities but may also need to incorporate other activities associated with procurement, construction, etc. Review of expenditure details, identifying incorrect charges, and commencement of the charge correction process will ensure our financials are accurate. We’ll also have you review, process, and track sub consultant invoices on various projects perform risk analysis on cost and schedule and recommend usage of contingency. Provide support for project pricing prepare spreadsheets and a wide variety of routine cost analyses, cash flow, and other cost related evaluations. Responsible to set-up, monitor, and report earned value progress measurement systems for projects, including analysis based on input from project leads. Produce various planning and scheduling reports and analysis. Support as a PC lead on quarterly business forecasting and monitoring with the PM’s/MOP’s. Utilize experience on working on cost estimation tools, pricing, change order management and deliverables tracking. Work with PA to check on Accounts receivable, backlog invoicing and sub accruals. Knowledge of contracts with different pricing method like Time and Materials, Lumpsum, Cost plus fixed fee, Cost plus fixed multiplier etc.

TRAVEL: Domestic travel to client sites <15% of the time.

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Here's what you'll need

REQUIREMENTS: This position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Operations, Engineering or related field and 5 years of work experience in the job offered or related Project Control occupation.

SPECIFIC SKILLS:

Special Skills or Other Requirements:

Expertise/ knowledge of: Cost Estimation Tools. Pricing Tools for estimating financials for Project management group. Software used to comply with revenue recognition per Accounting Standards Codification 606 (ASC 606). Software used for Project Accounting Procedure (PAP). Software to support contract management group review and approve all contract documents before commencement of work. Project controls concepts and procedures: Earned Value tracking for high value design Build projects. Understanding Percentage of completion hits to calculate revenue restrained and earned on a monthly basis. Change management control (Estimating in pricing tool, creating logs, setting up in the system once received and reflecting that in current budgets). Perform Operational Project Reviews (OPR) and cost reports -Project summary report, Project gross margin (PGM’s). Project management, Operations management and Project accounting for monitoring project financials and budgets. Data management software used to generate financial snapshots and support discipline leads in budgets, Estimates to complete (ETC’s), Estimate at Completion (EAC’s) etc. Business Forecasting to provide vision regarding backlogs and prospect projects. Contracts with different pricing methods like Time and Materials, Lumpsum, Cost plus fixed fee, Cost plus fixed multiplier etc. Data reconciliations to support PM functionalities.

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Posted Salary Range: Minimum

150,301.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

196,975.00

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $150,301.00 to $196,975.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on July 15, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.

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New York	New York	United States