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.
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 Senior Manager, Project Controls at Williams, you’ll lead a team of 60+ professionals across multiple locations, driving execution of projects. You’ll bring structure and clarity to a dynamic portfolio that spans strategic growth and tactical initiatives across all business units, including Power Innovation. This role is ideal for a highly organized, process-minded leader who thrives on aligning teams, optimizing systems, and delivering results. You’ll modernize how we work, foster cross-functional collaboration, and ensure transparency and accountability in every phase of project delivery.
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 60+ person project controls organization across multiple locations to support programs and projects across the enterprise
- Aligns with business leaders and key stakeholders to translate drivers and priorities into team objectives and outcomes
- Oversees multiple Project Controls leaders and their teams to deliver performance and resolve critical issues
- Standardizes processes, tools and procedures and partners with PSS peers to improve execution and advance digital transformation in PEX
- Delivers portfolio controls across scope, schedule, cost and risk including baselines, forecasting, Earned Value (EV), change control and risk registers
- Builds talent by recruiting, training, coaching and planning workforce and career development for direct employees
- Manages functional budgets and forecasts and monitors performance against plan
- Other duties as assigned
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, technical or business field from an accredited institution OR ten (10) years or more of industry experience in project controls or related functions with leadership experience
- Preferred: Ten (10) years or more of industry experience in project controls field, with leadership experience
Other Requirements
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
- Demonstrates aptitude and ability to embrace technology and applications to drive operational efficiency and streamline processes
- Preferred: PMP or AACE certification
- Preferred: Advanced knowledge of the full Project Life Cycle, including formal change control and stage‑gate practices
- Preferred: Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and risk analysis tools supporting Monte Carlo simulations and critical path planning
- Preferred: Strong financial acumen in capital cost management, forecasting and reporting
- Preferred: Experience with SAP or other ERP systems and Power BI for portfolio reporting and analytics
Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.
Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!
Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!
Why Choose Williams?
We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire. With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!
- Competitive compensation
- Annual incentive program
- Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
- Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
- 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
- Wellness Program with annual rewards
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Robust employee learning and development
- High internal mobility (we promote from within)
- Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
- Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
- Domestic partner benefits
- Educational reimbursement
- Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
- Employee resource groups
- Employee assistance programs
- Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
- Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes
Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.
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 https://www.williams.com/careers/total-rewards/.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Adaptive Planning, Change Management, Controls Compliance, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Innovation Culture, Internal Compliance, Internal Control Compliance, People Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Strategic ThinkingCompetency Requirements:
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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.
