Program Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Houston TX
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of experience supporting or managing EPC/EPFC projects.
- Experience working on medium to large, complex projects in a matrixed environment.
- Solid understanding of project controls, scheduling, cost management, and risk management.
- Strong coordination, communication, and organizational skills.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a Project Director or Senior Project Manager on high-risk or fast-paced projects.
- Prior responsibility for managing defined project scopes or work packages
- Professional certification (PMP or equivalent) preferred.
Full description
Location: Houston, TX
Department: DEPCON
The Opportunity
The Deputy Project Manager supports the Project Director in the day-to-day execution and delivery of a single, complex EPC/EPFC project. This role is responsible for helping translate the Project Director’s execution strategy into actionable plans, driving disciplined project controls, and ensuring alignment across engineering, procurement, construction, and support functions.
The Deputy PM acts as an extension of the Project Director, taking ownership of defined workstreams, interfaces, or phases of the project and serving as a key problem-solver to maintain schedule, cost, quality, safety, and contractual compliance. This position balances hands-on execution with leadership, coordination, and proactive risk management.
What you will do?Project Execution & Delivery Support
- Support the Project Director in implementing the overall project execution strategy.
- Manage day-to-day project execution activities across assigned scopes, phases, or workstreams.
- Ensure scope, schedule, cost, quality, and safety objectives are met for assigned areas.
- Track execution performance and support recovery planning for schedule or cost deviations.
- Drive timely issue resolution and elevate risks or decisions requiring executive attention.
Project Controls & Reporting
- Support oversight of project controls including cost, schedule, forecasting, and progress measurement.
- Review and validate project performance data, KPIs, and variance analyses.
- Prepare and coordinate internal and client-facing reports, dashboards, and presentations.
- Support change management processes, including scope changes, trends, and early warnings.
Risk, Safety & Quality Management
- Assist in identifying, assessing, and mitigating execution, technical, commercial, and schedule risks.
- Promote and reinforce safety leadership and compliance with site and corporate HSE standards.
- Ensure quality requirements are understood and consistently applied across execution teams.
- Participate in audits, reviews, and readiness assessments as required.
Client & Stakeholder Coordination
- Support the Project Director in managing client interfaces at the project-working and mid-management levels.
- Coordinate responses to client inquiries, action items, and routine communications.
- Participate in client meetings, progress reviews, and issue resolution discussions.