Description
WSP USA is currently seeking a Senior Pipeline Construction Manager to support its Earth & Environment Applied Solutions team. The preferred location for this position is Houston, Texas.
The Senior Pipeline Construction Manager will provide senior construction leadership, technical guidance, and field execution support for pipeline and associated facilities projects throughout the United States. The role involves supporting projects across the full EPCM lifecycle, including feasibility studies, routing and siting, estimating, constructability, execution planning, procurement, contractor selection, field mobilization, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide senior construction management and advisory support for pipeline, facilities, mining, energy, and industrial infrastructure projects.
- Lead or support construction execution planning from early project development through commissioning and closeout.
- Develop construction execution plans, field staffing strategies, logistics plans, contracting approaches, work packages, schedules, cost estimates, and project-specific procedures.
- Support pipeline routing and siting studies, including evaluation of right-of-way conditions, access, terrain, constructability, environmental constraints, major crossings, temporary facilities, laydown areas, and permanent station locations.
- Provide constructability input during feasibility, FEED, and detailed design, helping engineering teams translate technical requirements into practical and executable construction plans.
- Lead or oversee construction of oil and gas, slurry, concentrate, tailings, water, and return-water pipeline systems, including associated pump stations, compressor stations, terminals, tanks, metering facilities, and supporting civil infrastructure.
- Provide technical leadership for specialized construction activities, including horizontal directional drilling, tunneling and microtunneling, major road and water crossings, hydrostatic testing, pipeline rehabilitation, welding, coating, nondestructive examination, and integrity-related work.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 12 years of progressive construction, engineering, inspection, field-services, or project management experience supporting pipeline, facilities, mining, energy, or industrial infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex pipeline construction in a construction manager, field-services manager, project manager, construction director, engineering manager, or comparable senior role.
- Experience across multiple phases of the EPC/EPCM lifecycle.
- Strong working knowledge of pipeline construction methods, equipment spreads, field engineering, routing and siting, right-of-way development, logistics, inspection, quality management, and contractor oversight.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with both conventional oil and gas pipelines and mining-related slurry, concentrate, tailings, desalinated-water, or return-water systems.
- Experience with large-diameter, high-pressure, long-distance, or severe-service pipeline systems.
- Experience supporting projects in remote regions, severe climates, difficult terrain, or logistically constrained locations.
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to work in office, field, and active construction-site environments.
- Ability to walk extended distances over uneven terrain, climb stairs and small ladders, and safely access active pipeline, industrial, and mining work areas.
- Ability to wear required personal protective equipment and work outdoors under varying weather and environmental conditions.