Project Manager I - Engineering
$108,000–$162,000 year
HybridMedford, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Manage engineering projects from initiation through completion, leading planning, resourcing, staffing, supply, and subcontract management for DOT 195 pipeline and PSM NGL fractionation and storage projects. Ensure results meet technical quality, reliability, schedule, and cost requirements while monitoring performance to recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments, or resource additions. Develop project schedules, cost plans, and risk analyses using Monte Carlo simulation; create scope definition documents and manage formal change procedures. Lead internal and external resources, including vendors and contractors, to deliver safe, reliable solutions with limited direct oversight. Hybrid role based in Medford, Oklahoma; Bushton, Kansas; or Hutchinson, Kansas, Monday through Thursday in-office with remote work Friday and up to 20% travel.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or closely related field
- Five or more years of experience in engineering, operations and/or project management
- Experience at the PM I level
- Knowledge of engineering and operations of processing facilities, pipeline and related facility design, construction, operation, and maintenance projects
- 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 in use and function of applications such as: Microsoft required
- 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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: read and interpret governmental regulations, codes, and standards, manuals, policies, procedures, contracts, specifications, and various reports and correspondence
- Ability to: interact, advise, negotiate, and communicate effectively
- Ability to: develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate proficient verbal communication skills appropriate to organizational standards
- Ability to: maintain online platforms for relevance and currency
- Ability to: participate in meetings and assist in meeting coordination, facilitation and documentation requirements
- Ability to: interact with direct and indirect reports, corporate personnel, public officials, contractors, customers, and civic organizations
- Ability to: demonstrate and develop relationship skills
- Ability to: apply practical methods for influencing others with effective communication
- Ability to: evaluate projects and identify where change is needed
- Ability to: seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion
- Ability to: refocus team members if changes are needed
- Ability to: provide technical and engineering assistance to other departments, management, governmental and regulatory agencies, company attorneys, industry groups, and others
- Ability to: provide inputs and critically review results of Monte Carlo simulation for risk analysis
- Ability to: develop a business case for scope of work
- Ability 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: generate program objectives, critical success factors and ensure projects align to these
- Ability to: write scope definition documents and develop scope change management procedures, including formal MOC
- Ability to: write standard scope definition documents for a typical project using similar documentation from a previous project
- Ability to: develop project control, interface and scope change management procedures, including a formal Management of Change (MOC) procedure
- Ability to: support development of optimal project solutions that maximize the economic value added of the project over the life of the project within budgetary and resource constraints
- Ability to: create a cost plan considering cost estimating, budgeting and cost control & reporting using prior projects as a basis
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: assess cost impact of scope changes
- Ability to: support 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
- Ability to: develop interface and stakeholder management plans utilizing information from a similar project
- 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: describe and apply for a typical project schedule control procedures
- Ability to: validate contractor's re-baselined schedules based on agreed criteria
- Ability to: follow techniques to build and improve upon team performance and results
- Ability to: set challenging objectives based on assigned responsibilities, measuring progress against set targets
- Ability to: persevere through problems and obstacles, demonstrating accountability of performance and outcomes
- Ability to: lead project team by creating a clear project vision
- Ability to: obtain 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
- Ability to: follow and enhance communication skills
- Ability to: demonstrate effective communication and interpretation factors in the development of basic interpersonal relationships
- Ability to: collect, review, and disseminate 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
- Ability to: perform a project risk analysis
- Ability to: account for how Monte Carlo simulation assists in risk analysis
- Ability to: provide inputs and critically review results
- Ability to: develop a business case for scope of work
- Ability 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: generate program objectives, critical success factors and ensure projects align to these
- Ability to: write scope definition documents and develop scope change management procedures, including formal MOC
- Ability to: write standard scope definition documents for a typical project using similar documentation from a previous project
- Ability to: develop project control, interface and scope change management procedures, including a formal Management of Change (MOC) procedure
- Ability to: support development of optimal project solutions that maximize the economic value added of the project over the life of the project within budgetary and resource constraints
- Ability to: create a cost plan considering cost estimating, budgeting and cost control & reporting using prior projects as a basis
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: assess cost impact of scope changes
- Ability to: support 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
- Ability to: develop interface and stakeholder management plans utilizing information from a similar project
- 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: describe and apply for a typical project schedule control procedures
- Ability to: validate contractor's re-baselined schedules based on agreed criteria
- Ability to: follow techniques to build and improve upon team performance and results
- Ability to: set challenging objectives based on assigned responsibilities, measuring progress against set targets
- Ability to: persevere through problems and obstacles, demonstrating accountability of performance and outcomes
- Ability to: lead project team by creating a clear project vision
- Ability to: obtain 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
- Ability to: follow and enhance communication skills
- Ability to: demonstrate proficient verbal communication skills appropriate to organizational standards
- Ability to: maintain online platforms for relevance and currency
- Ability to: participate in meetings and assist in meeting coordination, facilitation and documentation requirements
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: demonstrate and develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate effective communication and interpretation factors in the development of basic interpersonal relationships
- Ability to: apply practical methods for influencing others with effective communication
- Ability to: evaluate projects and identify where change is needed
- Ability to: seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion and refocus team members if changes are needed
- Ability to: 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
- 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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: read and interpret governmental regulations, codes, and standards, manuals, policies, procedures, contracts, specifications, and various reports and correspondence
- Ability to: interact, advise, negotiate, and communicate effectively
- Ability to: develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate proficient verbal communication skills appropriate to organizational standards
- Ability to: maintain online platforms for relevance and currency
- Ability to: participate in meetings and assist in meeting coordination, facilitation and documentation requirements
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: demonstrate and develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate effective communication and interpretation factors in the development of basic interpersonal relationships
- Ability to: apply practical methods for influencing others with effective communication
- Ability to: evaluate projects and identify where change is needed
- Ability to: seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion and refocus team members if changes are needed
- Ability to: 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
- 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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: read and interpret governmental regulations, codes, and standards, manuals, policies, procedures, contracts, specifications, and various reports and correspondence
- Ability to: interact, advise, negotiate, and communicate effectively
- Ability to: develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate proficient verbal communication skills appropriate to organizational standards
- Ability to: maintain online platforms for relevance and currency
- Ability to: participate in meetings and assist in meeting coordination, facilitation and documentation requirements
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: demonstrate and develop relationship skills
- Ability to: demonstrate effective communication and interpretation factors in the development of basic interpersonal relationships
- Ability to: apply practical methods for influencing others with effective communication
- Ability to: evaluate projects and identify where change is needed
- Ability to: seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches for project completion and refocus team members if changes are needed
- Ability to: 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
- 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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
- Ability to: 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
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