Project Manager I - Engineering

ONEOK•Tulsa, OK

About The Position

ONEOK is seeking a Project Manager I to plan, monitor, and manage engineering projects from initiation through completion, with support from more experienced resources. The role provides leadership in delivering pipeline and facility projects while ensuring technical quality, reliability, schedule, cost, and alignment with operational standards and strategic goals. Projects are typically small growth or maintenance capital projects, and the position leads internal and external resources and communicates with company personnel, vendors, contractors, and customers. The role covers project activities involving plant and process facilities, pipelines, measurement, regulation and control facilities, gas treating and compressor facilities, product storage and handling, control systems, and processing equipment. The Project Manager develops and maintains scope, cost, schedule, risk, interface, stakeholder, and change-management plans; supports procurement, contracting, construction, commissioning, and startup; and helps optimize project solutions within budget and resource constraints. The position also supports other departments and provides technical and engineering assistance on project and operational matters. Candidates must have prior project management experience leading at least one DOT 192/195-regulated pipeline or facility project with a budget exceeding $50 million. Managing multiple projects with budgets over $100 million is identified as ideal. The position requires a bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related field, and PM I-level experience is typically attained with five or more years of experience in engineering, operations, and/or project management. Travel to other locations is required. The employee may be assigned a company vehicle based on assigned tasks, requiring the applicable driver's license.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related field.
Five or more years of experience in engineering, operations, and/or project management is typical for the Project Manager I level.
Prior project management experience leading at least one DOT 192/195-regulated pipeline or facility project with a budget exceeding $50 million.
Experience and knowledge of engineering and operations involving processing facilities; pipeline and related facility design, construction, operation, and maintenance; measurement, regulation, and control facilities; gas-conditioning, processing, and compressor facilities; pressure vessels and process equipment; and controls and monitoring systems.
Experience across project management phases, including scoping, estimating, specifications, scheduling, contracting and procurement, construction, commissioning and startup, budgeting, financial analysis, and regulatory compliance.
Experience achieving goals, developing employee and team strengths, and positively influencing employee and project success.
Experience using project management productivity tools and software.
Experience coordinating teams across workgroups, managing internal and external relationships, and eliciting cooperation from resources.
Experience developing information and presenting to groups and individuals.
Experience researching, composing, preparing, and administering contracts, engineering studies, policies, procedures, reports, and technical correspondence.
Experience reading and interpreting regulations, codes, standards, manuals, policies, procedures, contracts, specifications, reports, and correspondence.
Experience interacting, advising, negotiating, and communicating effectively.
Microsoft applications proficiency is required.
Ability to interface effectively with internal and external business partners at all levels, including management, with excellent written and oral interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to explain project and program management principles and project lifecycles; initiate and organize projects; and develop a business case.
Ability to identify project execution, organization, information management, risk management, quality, health, safety, and environmental plan objectives and elements.
Ability to identify project scope elements, scope-control activities, value-improving practices, project definition maturity criteria, and scope-control processes.
Ability to identify procurement and contracting functions and explain their relationship to project management.
Ability to identify key activities, deliverables, and resources for pre-sanction project-development phases, and to describe project fabrication, construction, transportation, installation, hookup, commissioning, and decommissioning requirements.
Ability to identify objectives and elements of project schedules and cost plans, including work breakdown structures, and describe how funding is ensured 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 and bid summaries, legal documents, survey reports, maps, safety manuals, and industry publications.
Ability to delegate work assignments and manage projects.

Nice To Haves

Successfully managed multiple projects with budgets over $100 million.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Experience with PROCORE.

Responsibilities

Manage engineering project activities, including facility and pipeline design, construction, operation, and maintenance, as well as measurement, regulation, control, processing, storage, and handling facilities and equipment.
Collect, review, and disseminate project information related to engineering services, scope definition, estimating, scheduling, design, bidding, procurement, construction, records, right-of-way, and environmental activities.
Perform project risk analysis, provide inputs, and critically review results, including consideration of Monte Carlo simulation.
Develop project business cases, assess project development phases, perform gap analyses for phase deliverables, and align component projects with program objectives and critical success factors.
Prepare scope definition documents and develop project control, interface, and scope change management procedures, including formal Management of Change (MOC) procedures.
Support development of project solutions that maximize economic value over the project lifecycle while respecting budgetary and resource constraints.
Develop cost plans, estimates, budgets, and cost-control and reporting approaches; assess the cost impact of scope changes and consider contracts, construction, quality assurance, equipment and material pricing, and labor productivity.
Develop interface and stakeholder management plans.
Develop project schedules that show the critical path, apply schedule-control procedures, and validate contractors' re-baselined schedules against agreed criteria.
Build team performance, set challenging objectives, measure progress, address obstacles, and maintain accountability for performance and outcomes.
Lead project teams by establishing a clear vision, securing resources, hiring employees and engaging contractors and vendors as needed, purchasing equipment, and allocating decision-making authority and responsibilities.
Communicate with direct and indirect reports, corporate personnel, public officials, contractors, customers, and civic organizations; participate in meetings and assist with coordination, facilitation, and documentation.
Identify when project changes are needed, seek innovative approaches, and refocus team members as appropriate.
Provide technical and engineering assistance to departments, management, governmental and regulatory agencies, company attorneys, industry groups, and others on project and operational matters, policies, procedures, contracts, materials, and regulations.