Project Controls Manager - Phoenix AZ

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We're looking for a Project Controls Manager in the Phoenix, AZ area. As a key member of our West Central support team, you’ll be interacting with engineering and construction to understand and communicate issues and conflicts that impact program schedules. You will also analyze CPM schedules and recommend work-arounds and schedule improvements. To be successful in this role, you'll work onsite with our client.

The Project Controls Manager plays a critical leadership role in guiding a project from planning through delivery by establishing and maintaining the systems that keep scope, schedule, budget, and risk aligned. This position oversees cost management, scheduling, forecasting, change control, reporting, and performance measurement to ensure the project team has accurate, timely information for decision making. By coordinating closely with project managers, engineers, contractors, and stakeholders, the Project Controls Manager identifies potential issues early, implements mitigation strategies, and ensures compliance with organizational standards and contractual requirements. Ultimately, the role provides the analytical backbone that supports transparency, accountability, and predictable project outcomes.

In this key role, you’ll work and collaborate with our client onsite 3 days a week.

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Here's what you'll need

• Degree in a related field, or equivalent experience

• A thorough understanding of building construction, timelines, and practices

• Primavera (P6) experience, including resource and cost loading, managing stored periods, generating Earned Value reports as well as graphic and tabular progress reports

• Constructability and value engineering analysis experience with regard to schedules

• Claims analysis and change order experience

• Experience with EVM (Earned Value Management)

• Good working knowledge of MS Excel: Table (xlookup, Index, Filtering, Data manipulation & summarization) and Excel Functions

• This is an On Site position, 5 days each week

• Must be U.S. Citizen (OR) Green Card holder

Ideally, you’ll also have 

• Ability to develop cost/schedule analysis presentations both graphically, written, and verbally

• Excellent communication skills and understanding of technical terminology

• A good business acumen and a desire to get involved in other aspects of our business (project oversight, business development etc.)

• Proven scheduling thinking and approach as a user

Posted Salary Range: Minimum

124,000.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

170,000.00

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 $124,000.00 to $170,000.00. 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 January 30, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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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Locations

City State Country
Tempe	Arizona	United States