At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
As a E&C Project Manager III/Sr/Staff, you’re not just managing projects—you’re 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. You’ll 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.
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
- 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:
III:
- Required: Bachelor's Degree and minimum five (5) years’ experience in oil and gas engineering/project management
- Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Construction Management
- Preferred: Project Management Certification (PMP), Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)
Senior:
- Required: Bachelor's Degree and a minimum ten (10) years’ experience in oil and gas engineering/project management
- Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or construction management and Master's degree in business, project management or engineering management; PMP or PE
Staff:
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree and minimum fifteen (15) years’ experience in oil and gas engineering/project management
- Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or construction management and Master's degree in business, project management or engineering management; PMP, PE, and Microsoft Specialist Project Certification (MS)
- Must be willing to travel up to 50%
- 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
- Experience supporting development of energy infrastructure projects, including early-phase project definition, feasibility analysis, and pre-FID decision-making
- Experience collaborating across commercial, engineering, and project controls teams to align technical solutions with business and contract requirements
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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 what’s next.
Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- 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.
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Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Bachelors (Required)Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum five years of oil and gas engineering or project management experience for Project Manager III
- Minimum ten years of oil and gas engineering or project management experience for Senior level
- Minimum fifteen years of oil and gas engineering or project management experience for Staff level
- Experience with facility construction or operations in the oil and gas industry
- Experience supporting energy infrastructure projects, including feasibility analysis and pre-FID decision-making
- Experience collaborating across commercial, engineering, and project controls teams
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management
- Project Management Professional certification
- Professional Engineer license
- Master's degree in business, project management, or engineering management
- Microsoft Specialist Project certification
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Retirement Support — Retirement contributions are described as notably strong, with a fixed employer contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching up to a set level, and eligible employees may also participate in a pension plan. This structure can significantly boost long-term savings when employees contribute.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage spans PPO and consumer-driven options with prescription coverage, virtual care, second-opinion services, maternity and family-planning support, and chronic-condition programs. Additional resources such as cancer support and HSA contributions on eligible plans broaden the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental leave, alongside bereavement, military, and jury-duty leave. Coverage breadth helps employees manage personal, family, and civic obligations.
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
