Job Description

PRIMARY PURPOSE

The Construction Manager is responsible for leading the safe and successful execution of capital construction projects, with a focus on oil and gas facilities, pump stations, compressor stations, and related infrastructure. This role ensures constructability in project development, oversees construction execution through mechanical completion and turnover, ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with company standards, project requirements, schedule, budget, and up to quality expectations.

This position provides field leadership to 3rd party company representatives across multiple active projects. The Construction Manager is responsible for coordinating daily construction activities, managing contractor performance, supporting quality assurance and commissioning efforts, and driving accountability for safety, cost, schedule, and execution outcomes. This role also serves as a key communication link between engineering, operations, project management, contractors, and other project stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is a proven construction leader with extensive oil and gas facility experience, a strong safety-first mindset, and the ability to manage multiple contractors and projects simultaneously. Success in this role requires excellent communication, strong field leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders while driving projects to successful completion.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Safety

• Lead field safety culture by living Tallgrass Safety Culture.
• Ensure contractor compliance.
• Participate in incident investigations.

• Conduct routine field audits.

  Construction Management

• Direct daily construction inspection activities across multiple project teams as required.
• Coordinate vendor work.
• Remove execution barriers.
• Monitor productivity via schedule reviews and field productivity audits.
• Verify manpower adequacy.
• Manage field changes.

• Ensure work follows drawings and specifications.

  Schedule Management

• Monitor project schedule.
• Identify critical path risks.
• Track contractor performance.

• Report schedule status to project leadership.

  Quality

• Ensure inspection and test plans are followed via audits.
• Monitor weld quality.
• Review turnover documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory and Tallgrass specifications.
• Verify completion of check sheets utilizing commissioning.
• Manage punch lists.

• Coordinate mechanical completion.

  Contractor Management

• Hold contractors accountable for scope, schedule, quality, and safety.
• Review staffing plans.
• Participate in progress meetings.

• Resolve field conflicts.

  Stakeholder Coordination

• Work with Engineering.
• Coordinate with Operations.
• Interface with environmental and regulatory personnel.

• Support procurement and material management.

  Desired Skills

• Strong leadership presence.
• Excellent communication.
• High accountability.
• Schedule-driven mindset.
• Conflict resolution.
• Decisive decision-making.
• Contractor management.
• Negotiation.
• Mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects.

• Strong organizational skills.

  Ideal Candidate Profile

• Someone who has successfully managed:

• $25M–$250M+ industrial capital projects.
• Multiple subcontractors simultaneously.
• Mechanical completion and turnover.
• Pipeline and compressor station construction.
• Owner-side construction execution.
• Fast-paced, schedule-critical projects.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or related field experience preferred.
• 15+ years of Construction Leadership experience.
• 7+ years of experience working with multiple projects.
• PMP or CCM certification preferred.
• Experience with natural gas pipelines
  • Compressor & Pump stations.
  • Processing facilities.
  • Brownfield Execution.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Mechanical Completion
  • Commissioning
  • Turnover
  • QA/QC
  • Construction scheduling

Preferred Qualifications

• API, ASME, or welding inspection knowledge
• Knowledge of B31.3, B31.4, B31.8, API, and OSHA requirements
• Experience with owner-side project execution
• Knowledge of commissioning activities

Certifications, Licenses & Registrations:

• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and a driving record satisfactory to the company and its insurers.

Competencies, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong team leadership skills and ability to manage crews at multiple locations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong customer focus and ability to build relationships with internal groups, customers, contractors, the public, and landowners.
• Ability to prioritize, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet established deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and other software applications.
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals).

Physical Demands:

All the physical requirements listed below are those that may be necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sitting; standing; walking or moving throughout the facility; driving; talking; seeing (specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus); hearing; feeling; bending or stooping; squatting or crouching; reaching; kneeling; pushing; pulling; ability to lift a up to 25 pounds.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time.

Working Conditions:

• Required to carry a cell phone and be available to respond during working and non-working hours.
• Required some out-of-town nights and weekend travel, as needed.
• Occasionally required to travel significant distances by vehicle.
• Varying working conditions from office settings to working outdoors in inclement weather conditions.
• Living environs may be negotiable and will be relevant to the work location.
• The successful candidate will be required to clear a drug screen and a complete background check, including a credit report for certain positions, after an offer has been extended and prior to being employed.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• Yes

Other responsibilities:

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed. This position may perform other duties as assigned.