Burns & McDonnell

EPC Project Manager - Oil, Gas & Chemical (Houston)

Burns & McDonnell$120K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in the refining/petrochemical industry.
  • 10+ years managing EPC projects preferred.
  • Field/Site work experience preferred.
  • Proven ability to develop business and establish client relationships.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Professional Registration/Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Establish project teams and coordinate activities across multiple disciplines.
  • Develop project execution plans for safety, staffing, budgeting, and scheduling.
  • Manage production of engineering deliverables and administration of construction activities.
  • Monitor schedules, critical paths, and report on trends and cost impacts.
  • Implement successful workshare execution for engineering and project services.
  • Anticipate, solve problems, and mitigate risks effectively.
  • Maintain positive client relationships and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

  • Travel opportunity to project and client sites (20% of the time).
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on project management execution.
  • Exposure to a variety of project phases from engineering to construction.
Full Job Description
Description

Our Houston regional office is looking for an EPC-Project Manager to join our growing operations supporting the oil, gas, and chemical industries. The EPC-Project Manager is accountable for the full performance of every phase of a project or a group of projects in the refining, midstream, and petrochemical industries, including the

strategic and tactical planning, directing, supervising, and controlling of all technical, fiscal, and administrative contractual functions, for both home office and site.

This person will be responsible for planning, organizing, and directing multi-office engineering disciplines, procurement, project controls, construction management, and subcontractors to deliver major EPC/CM projects from front-end engineering, through detailed design, procurement, construction, handover, and close-out.
  • Establish project teams, coordinate activities of multiple disciplines, and ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
  • Develop project execution plans for safety, project staffing, budgeting, scheduling, and establish critical project objectives, applying your leadership skills to manage clients and internal change.
  • Manage the production of engineering deliverables for all phases of the project (FEL through Detail Design), procurement of engineered equipment and bulk materials, administration of construction activities and subcontracts, and the overall safety, cost, schedule, & quality of assigned projects.
  • Manage schedules, recognize critical paths, drive estimating cadence and actively monitor and report trends and cost impacts.
  • Encourage and implement successful workshare execution for all engineering and project services scopes.
  • Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating, solving problems, and managing risks.
  • Provide performance feedback to department managers for project team members as appropriate.
  • Ensure that the project review process and other quality control guidelines are followed.
  • Develop and maintain positive relationships with prospective and existing client personnel at all levels of management.Support continuous improvement of project management execution systems, work processes, and procedures.
  • Identify opportunities and manage team efforts for submittals, proposals, presentations, contract negotiation, and related activities.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field from an accredited program.
  • Relevant work experience may be substituted for education.
  • Minimum 7 years of related experience in the refining/petrochemical industry.
  • 10 or more years managing EPC projects preferred.
  • Field/Site work experience preferred.
  • Proven ability to develop business and establish relationships with clients.
  • Must have the ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of industry contract on project-related matters.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Professional Registration/Certification preferred.
  • Ability to travel 20% to project and client sites or as necessary for project execution.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

Job Project Management

Primary Location US-TX-Houston

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 20 % of the Time

Req ID: 263206

Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-JJ #OGC

About Burns & McDonnell

Burns & McDonnell is a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting solutions firm. The company was founded in 1898 by Clinton Burns and Robert McDonnell and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Burns & McDonnell provides services to a wide range of industries, including aviation, defense, energy, environmental, healthcare, and transportation. The company has over 7,500 employees and operates in more than 50 countries around the world. Burns & McDonnell has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the United States by Fortune magazine.
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