Project Manager 2

#WeAreONEOK – Fortune 500 company. 100+ years in business. Leading midstream service provider. Safety first. Sustainable operations. Environmentally responsible. Employee focused.

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager II will lead execution of medium‑capex facility projects within the Natural Gas Gathering & Processing business, managing projects from initiation through closeout. This role requires an experienced project manager who proactively drives projects to completion, builds strong, trust‑based relationships with Operations and Commercial stakeholders, and communicates clearly and transparently. Projects typically have CAPEX in the $1M–$50M range and involve coordinating cross‑functional teams and third‑party contractors to meet safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.

You will be accountable for developing and maintaining project schedules, budgets, and milestone plans, and for ensuring milestones and deadlines are consistently met. A core responsibility is establishing and managing all project contracts and purchase orders and ensuring work is executed in strict accordance with those agreements. You must provide regular, candid progress updates, promptly surface issues or delays, and drive effective mitigation plans while managing multiple concurrent projects.
The ideal candidate brings proven facilities project experience in the Midstream or Oil & Gas sectors, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to build stakeholder trust and deliver projects on schedule and within budget. Experience managing construction, contracts, purchase orders, and third‑party vendors is required.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule: in‑office presence Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with remote work Wednesday and Friday as project workload allows.

Job Profile Summary

Directs and performs an advanced level of planning, monitoring and managing engineering projects from initiation through completion. Lead project planning, resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management. Ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost. Projects are typically intermediate growth projects. Monitor performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions. Lead internal and external resources and communicate throughout the company as well as with external vendors, contractors and customers. This role requires a blend of interpersonal management and technical skills necessary to achieve the desired project outcome.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Directs project activities demonstrating a skilled level to deliver project accomplishments inclusive of 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, processing equipment including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, coolers, etc.

• Manage the review, and dissemination of necessary information related to engineering services, scope definition, estimating, scheduling, design, preparation of bid instructions and bidding, procurement, construction, record keeping, right-of-way, and environmental activities to project team members

• Develop a risk analysis model for a typical project from a review and assessment of project risks and opportunities. Distinguish and assess the project risks and opportunities. Develop simulation models with a Monte Carlo simulation

• Integrate key disciplines into a plan for asset development for a typical project. Manage project development in compliance with project standards and procedures. Integrate a comprehensive plan for asset development. Facilitate agreement on data needed to progress the project. Distinguish key performance indexes, exclusions, constraints and assumptions necessary to prepare a project initiation document. Generate program objectives, critical success factors and ensure projects align to these. Develop project execution plan for large and/or complex projects and develop detailed project contingency plans

• Create a detailed project scope of work and execute it utilizing change management procedures and monthly progress reports. Create a detailed project scope of work that addresses key project elements and drivers. Execute and control the scope of a project using the project plans, monthly reports and control estimate. Facilitate process safety reviews associated with MOC

• Develop and manage optimal project solutions that maximize the economic value added of the project over the life of the project within budgetary and resource constraints

• Develop cost estimates and select, implement and execute cost control procedures for typical project. Account for the development of cost estimates, contract strategies, construction, quality assurance, including establishing pricing for equipment and materials, and labor productivity for engineering and construction. Assure alignment of cost estimate and overall project schedule. Develop cost estimates, probabilistic cost risk assessment, and contingency plans to create a project budget and cash flow estimate for a typical project. Validate estimates with peers; perform benchmarking. Assess cost impact of scope changes

• Manage complex project activities to include 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, processing equipment including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, coolers, etc.

• Develop and implement a stakeholder management plan for a typical project. Study Right of Way plans and assess critical reviews and easement coverage. Implement a stakeholder management plan and monitor/adjust strategies to increase influence and build key relationships

• Develop an overall project schedule by integrating schedules from individual project contractors. Use the integrated schedule to produce progress and productivity reports. Verify schedule progress, by reviewing discipline schedules. Ensure contractor compliance with schedule update criteria. Assess schedule impact of trends

• Build successful, high performing teams utilizing elements of planning and performance management. Maintain high standards of performance within a department, monitoring performance metrics against a target. Respond to obstacles to performance, taking ownership and accountability of proposed solutions. Lead project team by creating a clear project vision, obtaining necessary resources to handle projects including the hiring of employees, contractors, and vendors, and purchasing of necessary equipment as well as allocating applicable decision-making authority and responsibility to team members

• Execute the communication process. Engage in complex communication activities, and monitor organizational standards of verbal communication. Manage the policies and procedures applicable to the use of online communication platforms.

• Organize routine or scheduled meetings, chairing critical meetings where necessary. Facilitate the requirements for multi-day meetings. Interact with direct and indirect reports, corporate personnel, public officials, contractors, customers, and civic organizations on issues including general engineering activities, employee issues, public projects, and project scheduling

• Verify and support relationship building at all levels. Conduct networking and social initiatives to foster the growth of interpersonal relationships. Utilize alternative methods to enhance relationships within complex settings. Influence others using planned, creative approaches that appeal to particular needs

• Evaluate projects and identify where change is needed. Seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion and refocus team members if changes are needed

• Provide technical and engineering assistance to other departments, management, governmental and regulatory agencies, company attorneys, industry groups, and others on matters related to projects and operations, policies, procedures, contracts, material selection, and governmental/regulatory rules, regulations, and activities

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Petroleum engineering oand the following job related experience preferred

Work Experience

• Experience at this level is typically attained with seven 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 advanced 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 that leads to employee and project successes

• 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 from all resources

• 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 required and PROCORE preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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: determine how to establish which phase a project is in. Perform a definition maturity gap analysis. Develop a business case from a go-by. Edit/ modify a scope of work

• Ability to: determine how to determine which phase of development a project is in and perform a gap analysis on the number, type and level of definition needed for phase deliverables

• Ability to: describe the principles of program management and clarify how potential sub-set projects fit into the overall program

• Ability to: maintain a project execution plan for a project using similar documentation from a previous project

• Ability to: prepare sections of a scope of work for the pre-sanction phases of a medium size project. Facilitate preparation of your discipline deliverables

• Ability to: update standard scope definitions. Utilize project scope control procedures. Participate in evaluation of a project's definition maturity. Assist in selecting VIPs for a typical project

• Ability to: create procurement and contracting strategy plans utilizing documentation from a similar project. Address key activities for each function

• Ability to: develop a fabrication/ construction, transportation, installation and hookup management plan for a typical project using similar documentation from a previous project

• Ability to: develop several sections of a commissioning and startup plan for a medium sized project and a scopes of work for a small, facility projects

• Ability to: prepare a decommissioning plan for a project utilizing information from a similar project

• Ability to: rewrite templates and prior organization staffing plans for a project using similar documentation from a previous project

• Ability to: rewrite standard project HSE Management documents for a typical project using similar documentation from a previous project

• Ability to: develop an information management plan for a typical project using similar documentation from a previous project

• Ability to: rewrite an existing project risk register for a new project. Perform a project risk analysis

• Ability to: implement a stakeholder management plan and monitor/adjust strategies to build key relationships. Implement an interface management plan for a typical onshore or offshore project

• Ability to: describe project quality management practices. Account for how projects address quality management issues in their plans. Account for to the development of quality Plans and the application of Quality Control & Assurance

• Ability to: rewrite the scope definition documents and develop scope change management procedures, including formal MOC

• Ability to: develop a project schedule that shows the critical path using similar documentation from a previous project schedule of similar scope and type

• Ability to: create a cost plan considering cost estimating, budgeting and cost control & reporting using prior projects as a basis. Allocate resource costs to cost breakdown structure (CBS) and work breakdown structure (WBS)

• Ability to: describe the process of project capitalization

• 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: supervise and/or delegate work assignments

Licenses and Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred

Strength Factor Rating - Physical Demands/Requirements

• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Strength Factor Description - Physical Demands/Requirements

• Standing: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a work station without moving about (Occasionally)

• Walking: Moving about on foot (Frequently)

• Sitting: Remaining in a seated position (Constantly)

• Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) (Occasionally)

• Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in the hands or arms, or on the shoulder (Occasionally)

• Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (Occasionally)

• Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking) (Occasionally)

• Climbing: Ladders, Stairs (Occasionally)

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling (Occasionally)

• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist (Occasionally)

• Kneeling: Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees (Occasionally)

• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine (Occasionally)

• Crawling: Moving about on the hands and arms in any direction (Occasionally)

• Reaching: Extending hands and arms in any direction (Constantly)

• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with the hand or hands (Manual Dexterity) (Constantly)

• Fingering: Picking, pinching or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (Finger Dexterity) (Constantly)

• Feeling: Perceiving such attributes of objects/materials as size, shape, temperature, texture, movement or pulsation by receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips (Constantly)

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas/information by means of the spoken word (Frequently)

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sound by the ear (Frequently)

• Tasting/Smelling: (Occasionally)

• Near Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less (Constantly)

• Far Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 feet for more (Frequently)

• Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are (Frequently)

• Vision: Color - The ability to identify and distinguish colors (Constantly)

Working Conditions/Environment

• Employee is subject to inside environmental conditions

Working Conditions

• Well lighted, climate controlled areas (Constantly)

• Frequent repetitive motion (Constantly)

• CRT (Computer Monitor(s)) (Constantly)

Travel

• Travel to other locations required

Driving

• Based on assigned tasks, employee may be assigned a company vehicle requiring the applicable driver's license

ONEOK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, national origin, gender identity, disability, military/veteran status, genetic information or any other categories protected by applicable law.

The job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of ONEOK.

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. To request an accommodation email [email protected] or call 1-855-663-6547​. #LI-HYBRID

Expected Salary Range

$130,000.00 - $196,000.00