The Williams Companies

E&C Project Manager Senior/Staff -Maintenance (Project Execution, Power Innovation)

The Williams Companies$100K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Construction Management required
  • 15+ years' experience for Staff position; 10+ years' experience for Senior position in oil and gas project management
  • PMP or PE certification preferred; Microsoft Specialist Project Certification is a plus
  • Solid understanding of PLC/Stage-Gate processes with extensive facility construction experience
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead project teams to execute complex project plans and programs
  • Manage power infrastructure projects from concept to completion, ensuring accountability for scope, schedule, and budget
  • Apply engineering standards to design and integrate power generation systems and technologies
  • Align project goals with corporate strategy and evaluate economic impacts
  • Build trust through coordination with internal teams and external partners
  • Anticipate risks and make decisive calls to resolve challenges
  • Develop and implement project reports, presentations, and cost forecasts

Benefits

  • Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
  • Hybrid work flexibility for most office roles and real flexibility for field positions
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with flexible options
  • 401(k) plan with company match and contribution
  • Paid time off, including floating holidays and parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
  • Employee stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance
Full Job Description
As a Project Manager Senior/Staff, you9re not just managing projects-you9re defining how complex initiatives are executed across the organization. This role demands technical mastery, strategic vision, and the ability to deliver results that directly impact business performance. You9ll lead multiple large-scale projects with a relentless focus on safety, efficiency, and profitability, ensuring every initiative aligns with corporate objectives and engineering best practices.

In your day-to-day work, you9ll drive strategic decisions for large-scale projects, balancing technical complexity with business objectives. You9ll lead coordination across engineering, procurement, and construction partners, resolving high-stakes challenges and mitigating risks before they escalate. You9ll prepare executive-level updates that influence organizational priorities and ensure projects meet reliability, safety, and profitability targets. Your expertise shapes solutions that power the future of clean energy.

Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you9ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities/Expectations:
  • Leads a team to implement project plans or programs with significant complexity to achieve objectives, coordinating with our internal and external business partners
  • Manages power infrastructure projects from concept through completion, with accountability for scope, schedule, and budget
  • Applies engineering and construction standards to design and integrate power generation systems, high-voltage technologies, and control systems
  • Aligns project objectives with corporate strategy, evaluates economic impacts, and delivers solutions that maximize reliability and profitability
  • Builds trust for seamless coordination across internal teams and external partners, including Engineering, Procurement, and Construction
  • Anticipates risks with forward thinking alternatives, and makes decisive calls to quickly resolve technical, contractual, and regulatory challenges
  • Sets up the core project team to facilitate achievement of the project objective
  • Coordinates key functions with technical resources under the guidance of Project Life Cycle
  • Develops and implements project reports, presentations, schedules and costing forecasts
  • Presents and implements recommendations supported by sound engineering and operational efficiency that supports reliability targets and reduces risks inherent in the project
  • Prepares, reviews and approves requests for proposals, evaluations and contractor selection
  • Understands the economic impact of the project being developed to drive solutions
  • Anticipates issues, gathers information, assesses opportunity, analyzes alternative solutions and makes important decisions
  • Develops optimum project solutions that improve economic profit over the life of the project
  • Runs moderate-large projects with high quality and a focus on our business partners
  • Leads project teams and contractors; accountable for producing results and meeting deadlines
  • Other duties as assigned

Education/Years of Experience:

E&C Project Manager Staff:
  • Required: Bachelor9s Degree and minimum 15 years9 experience in oil and gas engineering/project management
  • Preferred: Bachelor9s Degree in engineering or construction management and Master9s degree in business, project management or engineering management; PMP, PE, and Microsoft Specialist Project Certification (MS)


E&C Project Manager Senior:
  • Required: Bachelor9s Degree and a minimum ten 10 years9 experience in oil and gas engineering/project management
  • Preferred: Bachelor9s Degree in engineering or construction management and Master9s degree in business, project management or engineering management; PMP or PE


Shift/Work hours/Travel Requirements:
  • Must be willing to travel up to 50%

Other Requirements:
  • Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
  • Solid understanding of PLC/Stage-Gate processes and extensive experience with facility construction or operations in the oil and gas industry
  • Preferred: Experience with EPC in Power Generation/Data Centers

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About Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city full of adventure. If you love a good ball game or the great outdoors such as visiting Point State Park in Pittsburgh9s 4Golden Triangle4 to see the Allegheny River, Monongahela River, and Ohio River converge, then Pittsburgh has you covered! The city is also known for its 4Only in Pittsburgh4 experiences and its unique and vibrant 90 neighborhoods that create the perfect places to live, hang out and explore.

Also, Pittsburgh is a convenient, affordable place to live and work-with a cost of living 7% lower than the national average.

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We invest in our people in ways that actually show up in your day-to-day, not just on paper. Our Total Rewards are built to support how you work, live, and plan for what9s next.

Here9s a look at what that means:

  • Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
  • Hybrid work for most office roles, plus real flexibility in many field positions
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
  • 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
  • Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
  • Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
  • Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
  • Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
  • Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
  • HSA and FSA options
  • Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Domestic partner benefits
  • Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about


Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.

Education Requirements:
Bachelors (Required)
Skill Requirements:

About The Williams Companies

Williams is an energy infrastructure company that connects North America's hydrocarbon resources to growing natural gas markets. The company owns and operates midstream gathering and processing assets, and interstate natural gas pipelines. Williams' interstate gas pipeline and gathering and processing operations span the United States, including strategic assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the Rockies, the Pacific Northwest, and the Eastern Seaboard. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with major offices located in Houston, Pittsburgh, and Salt Lake City. It currently employs more than 5,000 people.

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Size
4,783 employees
Market Cap
$39.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$211 million
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
+7.2%
Revenue
$7.7 billion
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