Dir Project Controls - T&G

At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day. Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours. The Director of Project Controls leads the enterprise project controls function and provides strategic direction for project controls governance, talent, systems, and execution across the full project life cycle. In this role, you will establish consistent standards, tools, and processes while partnering with project execution, engineering, construction, operations, finance, supply chain, and other stakeholders to provide objective visibility into project performance and support timely business decisions. You will lead geographically dispersed teams, align resources with portfolio priorities, strengthen project controls capabilities, and serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex cost, schedule, risk, reporting, and execution matters. Your work will challenge you, and with our values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us. Responsibilities/Expectations: Sets the enterprise project controls strategy, governance framework, standards, and oversight practices across planning, cost, schedule, risk, change management, reporting, and document controls Provides executive visibility into portfolio and project performance through forecasting, integrated schedules, KPI reporting, variance analysis, and recovery planning to support strategic business decisions Ensures effective project controls support throughout the project lifecycle while establishing processes that drive accurate forecasting, performance measurement, cost control, and schedule management Leads and develops managers and project controls professionals across multiple business units and geographic locations, aligning organizational structure, staffing, and resources with portfolio priorities and business objectives Builds strong relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders to align project execution with strategic objectives and serve as a trusted advisor on project performance and portfolio health Serves as the escalation point for significant cost, schedule, risk, change management, and execution issues, providing guidance and recommendations to support sound decision-making Oversees project controls methodologies, systems, reporting tools, and document control processes to ensure consistency, transparency, and reliable project performance information across the portfolio Drives continuous improvement through enhanced data quality, analytics, automation, benchmarking, and adoption of project controls best practices Provides expert consultation to executive leadership in support of capital planning, portfolio management, and long-term business strategy Other duties as assigned Education/Years of Experience: Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related field from an accredited institution, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, and ten (10) years of progressive experience in project controls, project management, engineering, construction, operations, or a related capital-project discipline Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related field from an accredited institution and fifteen (15) years of experience supporting large, complex capital projects in energy, infrastructure, industrial construction,