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 Senior E&C Project Manager, you’ll lead moderate-to-large-scale power generation initiatives where technical complexity meets strategic impact. Your expertise in PLC/Stage-Gate processes and facility construction and operations will be the foundation for delivering solutions that optimize performance and profitability across the entire asset lifecycle. Scope includes combined-cycle and simple-cycle capacity, cogeneration and behind-the-meter generation, plant uprates and repowering, battery energy storage, and substation and generation-tie interconnection work. You will work under minimal guidance while performing complex tasks and exercise substantial latitude for making unreviewed decisions.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Leads teams to execute complex project plans, ensuring seamless coordination with internal and external partners and delivering results on time for moderate-to-large projects
- Manages all aspects of project delivery to ensure timely, cost-effective, and competitive results
- Sets up core project teams to enable collaboration and achieve objectives efficiently
- Leads and coordinates engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup functions with technical resources under the structured guidance of the Project Life Cycle for consistency and rigor
- Develops and implements detailed reports, presentations, schedules, and cost forecasts to maintain control and transparency
- Presents and executes recommendations grounded in engineering principles and operational efficiency to meet reliability targets and reduce risk
- Prepares, reviews, and approves RFPs, contractor evaluations, and selection decisions with precision and compliance; negotiates and administers agreements with consultants, contractors, and suppliers
- Understands and applies economic impact analysis to drive solutions that enhance profitability and long-term value
- Anticipates challenges, gathers critical data, evaluates opportunities, and makes decisions that deliver meaningful business impact· Designs optimum project solutions that improve economic performance over the entire asset lifecycle
- Manages long-lead equipment procurement, interconnection milestones, and commissioning and startup readiness
- Ensures compliance with applicable technical and regulatory requirements
- Other duties as assigned
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 10 years’ experience in power generation, energy, oil and gas, and/or 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 delivering thermal generation or energy storage projects through EPC or multi-prime contracting
- Familiarity with U.S. power markets, ISO/RTO interconnection processes, and air and environmental permitting
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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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 10 years of experience in power generation, energy, oil and gas, and/or engineering/project management
- Willingness to travel up to 50%
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Strong commitment to safety
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Understanding of PLC/Stage-Gate processes
- Extensive experience with facility construction or operations in the oil and gas industry
- Experience delivering thermal generation or energy storage projects through EPC or multi-prime contracting
- Familiarity with U.S. power markets and ISO/RTO interconnection processes
- Familiarity with air and environmental permitting
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management
- Master's degree in business, project management, or engineering management
- PMP certification
- Professional Engineer license
- 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.
