Program Manager - O&G Electrical Instrumentation in Houston

Job Description

Program Manager – Oil & Gas E&I

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Houston or Odessa, TX | Regular Project Travel

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Apply if you are ready to lead the work, the business, and the client relationship - all at the same time.

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Built for High-Stakes Oil & Gas Execution

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You are field credible, commercially sharp, and decisive under pressure. You use reliable data, resolve difficult issues early, protect long-term client value, and build accountable project teams that execute safely and consistently.

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What You Will Lead

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• Multiple concurrent E&I projects across upstream, midstream, downstream, petrochemical, gas processing, terminal, and related process facilities.

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• Execution strategies for greenfield, brownfield, expansion, maintenance, turnaround, shutdown, and tie-in work.

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• Coordination across engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, startup, commissioning, client operations, subcontractors, and vendors.

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• Project health reviews and corrective action for emerging safety, design, labor, material, productivity, schedule, and commercial risk.

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• Recovery planning for distressed projects and high-impact decisions through resolution.

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Your E&I and Commercial Scope

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• Provide executive-level oversight of power distribution, substations, switchgear, MCCs, motors, grounding, heat trace, lighting, instrumentation, analyzers, controls, PLC/DCS interfaces, and communications systems.

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• Ensure constructability, work packaging, installation sequencing, testing, loop checks, calibration, checkout, energization, commissioning, and turnover are built into the execution plan.

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• Coordinate brownfield tie-ins, shutdown work, simultaneous operations, operating-area access, permit requirements, and system handover with client operations.

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• Own portfolio revenue, gross margin, cost-to-complete, cash flow, billing, collections support, forecast accuracy, contingency use, and change management.

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• Review estimates, budgets, labor curves, productivity assumptions, buyout plans, subcontract strategy, schedule of values, and commercial risk before authorization.

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• Protect the contractual position through timely notice, accurate documentation, disciplined change-order management, and clear executive reporting.

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What You Bring

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• 10+ years of direct Oil & Gas construction experience with progressive responsibility in E&I project or program leadership.

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• Experience delivering E&I work in upstream production, midstream pipelines or terminals, gas processing, refining, petrochemical, LNG, or related process facilities.

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• Proven accountability for multiple projects or a major program covering safety, schedule, cost, margin, staffing, productivity, quality, commissioning, and client performance.

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• Strong command of industrial power distribution, instrumentation, controls, classified areas, testing, loop checks, startup, commissioning, and turnover.

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• Hands-on experience planning and executing brownfield work, tie-ins, shutdowns, turnarounds, or work within operating facilities.

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• Command of budgets, forecasting, earned progress, labor productivity, scheduling, risk management, change management, and contract administration.

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• Ability to interpret contracts, drawings, specifications, one-lines, P&IDs, scopes of work, estimates, schedules, cost reports, and performance dashboards.

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• Executive communication, client management, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills.

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• Ability to work from Houston or Odessa and travel regularly to project sites and client locations.

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