
Project Controls Lead (LSNA-PR)
Guaynabo, PRJobSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Jacobs is seeking a Project Controls Lead professional to support its Program Management Team in Carolina/Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The role provides forecasting, cost engineering, reporting, and subcontractor invoicing. The posting describes project cost controls work involving project controls tools, cost tracking, estimate-at-completion updates, cash flow forecasts, and commercial operations.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
We challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’re interested in a long and rewarding career working with the #1 ranked most admired engineering / construction company in the world, and the industry’s best and most innovative engineers, then Jacobs is where you belong. We are looking for a driven and curious Project Controls Lead professional in Carolina/Guaynabo, Puerto Rico to support our Program Management Team.
You’ll have the chance to work on this team providing solid forecasting, cost engineering, reporting and subcontractor invoicing.
Join us and we will assist in continuing the development of your skills and exploring all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way.
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Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or other business management related degree; or equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree
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At least 5 years of project cost controls experience
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Experience with Project Controls Tools: EcoSys, Oracle, Microsoft Excel
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Experience working on various projects to include coordinating and executing project issues
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Specific experience in tracking actual costs, commitments, and accruals in cost systems
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Support updates to Estimate at Completion and Cash Flow Forecasts
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Experience in project controls, commercial operations, with emphasis on project controls and financial issues
Please note: Local Puerto Rico residents highly recommended
Ideally, you’ll also have:
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MS Office skills to include Excel
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Intermediate skills with My Payables, Unifier, IPCS, and Polaris, plus other proprietary system tools
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Cost estimating experience
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,665 open Project Controls jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$90–159K/yr1,992 salary ranges
- US median$29–38/hr70 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,665 open Project Controls jobs across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Controls postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,394 postings).
- Education
- 803 of the 2,665 open Project Controls jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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