Project Manager I - Engineering

ONEOK • Tulsa, OK

1d • Onsite

About The Position

ONEOK is a Fortune 500 company with over 100 years in business, operating as a leading midstream service provider. The company prioritizes safety, sustainable operations, environmental responsibility, and its employees. This role is for a Project Manager I - Engineering, requiring prior project management experience, ideally leading DOT 192/195 regulated pipeline or facility projects with significant budgets. The position involves ensuring project deadlines are met, providing progress updates, managing contracts and purchase orders, and fostering a high-performing team culture with economic discipline. The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, monitoring, and managing engineering projects from initiation to completion, ensuring technical quality, reliability, schedule, and cost requirements are met. This includes managing internal and external resources, communicating with stakeholders, and blending interpersonal and technical skills.

Requirements

• Prior project management experience leading at least one DOT 192/195 regulated pipeline or facility project with a budget exceeding $20 million.
• Successfully managed multiple projects with budgets over $50 million (ideal).
• Ensuring project milestones and deadlines are consistently met.
• Providing regular and transparent progress updates.
• Communicating issues or delays as they arise.
• Establishing and managing all project contracts and purchase orders.
• Ensuring work is executed in strict accordance with agreement terms.
• Building strong, high-performing teams with clearly defined expectations and decision rights.
• Fostering a project culture that encourages economic discipline and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Consistently communicating predictable financial and schedule health.
• Proactively mitigating financial risk throughout the project lifecycle.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or closely related field.
• Five or more years of experience in engineering, operations and/or project management.
• Experience and knowledge of engineering and operations of processing facilities, pipeline and related facility design, construction, operation, and maintenance projects; measurement, regulation, and control facilities; gas‑conditioning, processing, and compressor facilities; pressure vessels and process equipment; controls and monitoring systems.
• Experience with all phases of fundamental project management including scoping, estimating, specification, scheduling, contracting and procurement, construction, commissioning and startup, budgeting, financial analyses, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience achieving goals and developing employee/team strengths, exhibiting a positive example and influence.
• Experience with project management productivity tools and software.
• Experience in coordinating teams from various workgroups, managing relationships with internal and external participants and eliciting cooperation.
• Experience developing information and making presentations to groups and individuals.
• Experience researching, composing, preparing, and administering contracts, engineering studies, policies, procedures, reports, and technical correspondence.
• Experience reading and interpreting governmental regulations, codes, and standards, manuals, policies, procedures, contracts, specifications, and various reports and correspondence.
• Experience interacting, advising, negotiating, and communicating effectively.
• Experience in use and function of applications such as Microsoft.
• Ability to effectively interface with internal and external business partners at all levels, including management, with excellent written and oral interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to describe the major stages of the onshore and offshore project lifecycles. Explain how to initiate and organize a project and develop a business case.
• Ability to describe the major stages, individual stages and the ability to influence at different points of the onshore project management lifecycle.
• Ability to state the purposes and principles of program management. Define the difference between Program Management and Project Management.
• Ability to identify the basic objectives and elements of a Project Execution Plan.
• Ability to describe key activities, deliverables and required resources for each of the pre-sanction phases of project development.
• Ability to identify the engineering scope elements, scope control activities, value improving practices (VIPs) and project definition maturity criteria.
• Ability to identify the basic procurement and contracting functions and major activities associated with each. Explain the interrelationship between project management & procurement/contracting.
• Ability to identify the basic objectives and elements of onshore & offshore project fabrication/ construction, transportation, installation and hookup management plan.
• Ability to describe the key differences between and critical success factors for mechanical completion, pre-commissioning and commissioning.
• Ability to state basic project decommissioning requirements in terms of statutory/regulatory compliance and operational constraints.
• Ability to identify the basic objectives and elements of project organization plan.
• Ability to describe the basic objectives and elements of planning for project Health, Safety and the Environment.
• Ability to identify the basic objectives and elements of a information management plan.
• Ability to identify the basic elements and objectives of project risk management and risk analysis.
• Ability to describe the key aspects of interface and stakeholder management.
• Ability to describe the project quality policy and major project quality activities required for a successful outcome.
• Ability to identify the scope control process, including a project's objectives, scope elements and constraints.
• Ability to identify the tools used and basic objectives and elements of a project schedule, including the use of work breakdown structure (WBS) to ensure consistency.
• Ability to identify the basic objectives and elements of project cost planning.
• Ability to describe key activities that must be completed to ensure funding is available when needed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ability to monitor operations and situations to ensure compliance with safety policies and procedures.
• Ability to research, compose, reconcile, and prepare reports, invoices, studies and correspondence.
• Ability to read and interpret construction specifications, engineering plans, regulatory documents, job orders, permits, contracts/bid summaries, legal documents, survey reports, maps, safety manuals, industry publications.
• Ability to delegate work assignments and manage projects.

Nice To Haves

• PROCORE preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage project activities, including plant and process facility design, pipeline design, construction, operation and maintenance projects, measurement, regulation and control facilities, gas treating and compressor facilities, product storage, pumping, loading and handling facilities, SCADA, DCS and PLC control systems, and processing equipment.
• Collect, review, and disseminate information related to engineering services, scope definition, estimating, scheduling, design, bid instructions, bidding, procurement, construction, record keeping, right-of-way, and environmental activities.
• Perform project risk analysis, including accounting for Monte Carlo simulation and critically reviewing results.
• Develop a business case for the scope of work, determine project development phase, and perform gap analysis on deliverables.
• Describe principles of program management and how sub-set projects fit into the overall program.
• Write scope definition documents and develop scope change management procedures, including formal MOC.
• Support development of optimal project solutions that maximize economic value within constraints.
• Create a cost plan considering cost estimating, budgeting, and cost control & reporting.
• Assess the cost impact of scope changes.
• Support complex project activities across various engineering and construction domains.
• Develop interface and stakeholder management plans.
• Develop a project schedule showing the critical path and describe/apply project schedule control procedures.
• Validate contractor's re-baselined schedules.
• Follow techniques to build and improve team performance, set challenging objectives, and persevere through obstacles.
• Lead project teams by creating a clear vision, obtaining necessary resources (hiring employees, contractors, vendors, purchasing equipment), and allocating decision-making authority.
• Follow and enhance communication skills, maintain online platforms, and participate in meetings.
• Interact with direct and indirect reports, corporate personnel, public officials, contractors, customers, and civic organizations.
• Demonstrate and develop relationship skills, influencing others with effective communication.
• Evaluate projects and identify areas for change, seeking innovative approaches and refocusing teams.
• Provide technical and engineering assistance to other departments, management, governmental and regulatory agencies, company attorneys, industry groups, and others.

Benefits

• ONEOK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• ONEOK is committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees