I can see the benefit of being able to transfer inventory items to a particular job will aid you in running your construction company with QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT), @MikeyB. That's why I'm here to share further details about this.

We take your suggestions for transferring inventory items to a job as an opportunity on which area of the product's feature we need to improve on. With this, I encourage you to send feedback or product recommendation.

Your valuable feedback will be forwarded and reviewed by our Product Development team to help improve your experience while using the program. Here's how:

1. Go to the Help menu.
2. Choose  Send Feedback Online.
3. Click on Product Suggestion.
4. Click on the drop-down for Type of Feedback and select Product Suggestion.
5. Select the Product Area.
6. Then enter your thoughts and suggestions.
7. Once done, select Send Feedback.

I've attached screenshots below for your reference.

Also, I'm adding this article to further guide you in managing your business growth and inventory transactions in QBDT: QuickBooks Help Articles for Inventory Management. It also includes related articles about bills, payments, and inventory values, to name a few.

I'm all ears if you have other inventory concerns and tracking job costs in QBDT. You can drop your comment below, and I'll gladly help. Take care always, @MikeyB.