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.
Do Something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours!
As a Project Manager Senior/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.
In your day-to-day work, you’ll drive strategic decisions for large-scale projects, balancing technical complexity with business objectives. You’ll lead coordination across engineering, procurement, and construction partners, resolving high-stakes challenges and mitigating risks before they escalate. You’ll 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, you’ll 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: Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 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)
E&C Project Manager 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
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
Experience in design, construction, and commissioning power generation systems (grid-connected or islanded plants), substations, and high-voltage electrical distribution systems
Experience with Microsoft Project or equivalent project controls tools
Preferred: Electrical Engineering degree
Preferred: Microsoft Project Certification
Preferred: Experience with EPC in Power Generation/Data Centers
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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
- 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.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
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:Skill Requirements:
Competency Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum 10 years' experience in oil and gas engineering/project management (Senior) or minimum 15 years' experience (Staff)
- Willingness to travel up to 50%
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and general PC skills
- Experience with Microsoft Project or equivalent project controls tools
- Solid understanding of PLC and Stage-Gate processes and extensive experience with facility construction or operations in the oil and gas industry
- Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of power generation systems (grid-connected or islanded), substations, and high-voltage electrical distribution systems
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management, Master's degree in business, project management or engineering management
- PMP, PE, Microsoft Specialist Project Certification or Microsoft Project Certification
- Electrical Engineering degree
- Experience with EPC in Power Generation or Data Centers
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.
