Project Manager

Project Manager

 

Location: Houston, TX

 

Summary:

The Project Manager will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of energy infrastructure projects supporting a portfolio centered around on-site energy applications. This position will take ownership of project scope, schedule, budget, critical-path activities, and overall execution while coordinating the internal and external resources necessary to deliver projects successfully.

 

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, highly organized project manager who brings a strong sense of urgency and accountability to project execution. This individual will thrive in a fast-moving, growing organization where priorities can evolve quickly and successful project delivery requires initiative, adaptability, disciplined follow-through, and effective coordination across multiple stakeholders.

 

Job Duties:

Project Management & Execution

• Manage projects from planning through execution with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and overall project performance.
• Develop, maintain, and actively manage project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and critical-path activities.
• Establish clear project execution plans, priorities, resource requirements, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Monitor project progress against established plans and proactively address issues that could impact schedule, cost, scope, or delivery.
• Track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasts, and other key cost information throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain clear visibility into project status, risks, constraints, upcoming milestones, and required decisions.
• Drive project activities with a strong sense of urgency and ensure deliverables, decisions, and action items remain on track.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously while responding effectively to changing commercial and operational requirements.
• Maintain accurate and organized project documentation, schedules, cost information, action items, and progress reporting.

Engineering & Resource Coordination

• Coordinate the internal and external resources required to successfully execute assigned projects.
• Work closely with engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and construction teams to translate project requirements into executable plans.
• Identify engineering and technical resources required throughout project execution, including disciplines such as layout and drafting, fire protection, process hazard analysis, piping, and electrical integration.
• Coordinate external engineering firms, vendors, contractors, and technical specialists to ensure deliverables meet project requirements and schedules.
• Leverage internal subject matter experts and operational resources to incorporate technical expertise and institutional knowledge into project execution.
• Maintain accountability across project contributors by establishing clear deliverables, owners, and completion dates.

Client & Vendor Management

• Serve as a key point of coordination between project stakeholders, including clients, vendors, contractors, engineering resources, and internal teams.
• Lead and participate in project meetings, document decisions and action items, establish ownership, and follow through to completion.
• Maintain effective communication with clients and vendors regarding project requirements, schedules, deliverables, interfaces, and execution priorities.
• Coordinate resolution of project issues and remove obstacles that could impact schedule or successful delivery.
• Build productive working relationships across technical, commercial, operational, and field teams.

Field & Construction Support

• Coordinate with construction and field personnel throughout project execution.
• Support field activities through periodic site visits to monitor progress, facilitate coordination, identify constraints, and help resolve execution issues.
• Coordinate interfaces between supplied energy infrastructure and client facilities, equipment, and associated systems.
• Ensure field execution remains aligned with established project scope, schedule, budget, and priorities.
• Provide project leadership and coordination between office-based teams and field resources to maintain continuity throughout execution.

 

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Engineering, Industrial Management, Construction Management, Operations Management, or related technical disciplines are preferred.
• Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, or other engineering backgrounds are desirable.
• PMP certification is not required.

Experience/Skills:

• 3–5+ years of project management or closely related project execution experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, costs, critical paths, deliverables, and overall progress.
• Experience supporting energy, oil & gas, power generation, industrial, or similar capital project environments preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, procurement, construction, vendor, and operational resources.
• Strong understanding of project planning, scheduling, cost tracking, progress measurement, risk identification, and action-item management.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and consistent follow-through.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and changing requirements.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, initiative, and urgency. Results-driven with proactive problem-solving skillsets.
• Ability to anticipate project needs, recognize potential constraints, and proactively drive issues toward resolution.
• Ability to understand technical project requirements, identify appropriate resources, ask effective questions, and facilitate timely decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with clients, vendors, contractors, engineers, operations personnel, procurement teams, commercial teams, and construction resources.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment that requires adaptability, resourcefulness, and a practical approach to problem solving.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites as required.

 

Physical requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

About Teal Energi:

Teal Energi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, Teal Energi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure. Teal Energi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.