Asset Integrity Project Manager II

About the role

This Project Manager role leads the planning, coordination, and execution of inline inspections (ILI) for a Fortune 500 midstream service provider. The position coordinates inspection vendors, operations, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure compliance and timely evaluation of pipelines, manages project budgets and schedules, and drives integrity decisions that support safe, reliable, and efficient pipeline operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management and oversight for integrity-related projects using local, contract, or in-house resources as necessary.
• Identify, track, manage, and resolve project issues to mitigate risk.
• Manage the most complex and highest-visibility pipeline integrity assessment and remediation projects.
• Plan and coordinate pipeline integrity projects; prepare job/project plans, RFSs and AFEs, budgets and forecasts, process invoices, track costs, procure materials, schedule project support personnel, schedule ILI vendors, conduct pre-jobs, and schedule project work in conjunction with pipeline product movements.
• Manage overall work plans and provide forecasts to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Implement asset assessment and remediation processes under the Integrity Management Program (IMP) and other integrity programs.
• Review pipeline segment data to assess integrity threats and select appropriate assessment methods and schedules.
• Execute integrity assessments in a timely manner per baseline or continual assessment schedules (including single or multiple in-line inspections or hydrostatic pressure tests).
• Evaluate preliminary and final in-line inspection data and prepare dig lists for anomaly evaluation.
• Evaluate External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA) data and prepare dig lists for anomaly evaluation.
• Utilize risk assessment and data integration processes to further evaluate anomalies.
• Communicate assessment results to the Integrity Management Team as necessary.
• Integrate available information as required by the IMP data integration process.
• Develop and complete detailed statistical analysis related to assessment data and key performance indicators.
• Develop appropriate action plans and continual assessment schedules based on integrity assessments and data integration.
• Validate and document the results of integrity assessments.
• Manage and/or support construction and anomaly investigation and repair projects.
• Provide accurate and timely information to appropriate databases to support risk, data integration, and program improvement processes.
• Complete reviews and prepare documentation to meet regulatory RFIs; may communicate directly with federal and state regulators.
• Prepare for and participate in IMP procedure review and development.
• Prepare for and participate in PHMSA and state regulatory inspections.
• Mentor Pipeline Integrity Project Coordinators and support development activities as established by Integrity Managers and Supervisors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, a related field, or equivalent combination of formal education and job-related experience.
• 8+ years of work experience in Pipeline Integrity, including experience in project management.
• Experience using office equipment such as computers and applicable software.
• Ability to read and interpret vendor reports, spreadsheets, and integrity management raw data.
• Ability to compose and prepare executive summaries and other materials including IMP procedures, bid packages, dig sheets, and AFEs.
• Technical knowledge of pipeline operations, construction, maintenance, welding, pipeline anomaly assessment methods, pipeline repair methods, and internal inspection data interpretation.
• Knowledge of federal codes and regulations governing pipelines.
• Extensive knowledge of pipeline maintenance, repair, and welding/non-destructive examination practices.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of risk analysis, in-line inspection, data analysis, and hydrostatic testing.
• Ability to apply math and algebraic formulas.
• Ability to communicate the status of projects, project schedules, and inspection results with the IMP data integration team and management.
• Ability to create and conduct presentations related to assessment and remediation and anomaly distribution and change during data integration meetings.
• Ability to operate tools and equipment required.
• Ability to consistently use and apply advanced principles, theories, concepts, and techniques in area of expertise.
• Ability to organize, examine, and analyze information to provide resolution to complex problems where analysis requires evaluation of variable factors.

Physical Demands

Sedentary work with exertion of up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible force frequently; involves sitting most of the time but may include walking or standing for brief periods. Specific activities include standing (occasionally), walking (frequently), sitting (constantly), lifting (occasionally), carrying (occasionally), pushing (occasionally), pulling (occasionally), climbing ladders or stairs (occasionally), balancing (occasionally), stooping (occasionally), kneeling (occasionally), crouching (occasionally), crawling (occasionally), reaching (constantly), handling (constantly), fingering (constantly), feeling (constantly), talking (frequently), hearing (frequently), tasting/smelling (occasionally), near vision (constantly), far vision (frequently), depth perception (frequently), and color vision (constantly).

Work Environment

Employee is subject to inside and outside environmental conditions. Well-lighted, climate-controlled areas (frequently) and outdoor weather conditions (occasionally). Exposure to dust, fumes, or gases (occasionally). Frequent repetitive motion (constantly). Regular use of CRT/computer monitors (constantly).

Travel

Travel within office surroundings and to outdoor job sites; driving may be required based on assigned tasks, including use of a company vehicle.

Pay

Expected salary range: $101,000 – $151,000.