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The E&C Project Manager Senior/Staff role demands technical mastery, strategic vision, and the ability to deliver results that directly impact business performance. You’ll lead the safe and efficient execution of mega-scale power infrastructure projects including gas turbines, gas reciprocating engines, combined heat and power (CHP), Solar, and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with a relentless focus on safety, efficiency, and profitability.
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
- 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 power plant construction or operations
- 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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- 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
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Education Requirements:Bachelors (Required)Skill Requirements:
Competency Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 10 years of experience in oil and gas engineering or project management for the Senior level, or minimum 15 years for the Staff level
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with safety as the highest priority
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Understanding of PLC and Stage-Gate processes
- Extensive experience with power plant construction or operations
- Experience designing, constructing, and commissioning power generation systems, substations, and high-voltage electrical distribution systems
- Experience with Microsoft Project or equivalent project controls tools
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management
- Master's degree in business, project management, or engineering management
- PMP certification
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Microsoft Project Specialist certification
- Electrical Engineering degree
- Experience with EPC in power generation or data centers
What We Do
Northwest Pipeline LLC owns and operates an interstate pipeline system for the mainline transmission of natural gas.
