Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
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.
As a Manager Operations, you will lead a team of operations employees and are responsible for the operations and safety of everyone within your area. You will ensure all employees are adequately trained to identify hazards and safely carry out duties, while delivering reliable business results. The ability to demonstrate safety leadership and nurture positive relationships with customers and the community are keys to success!
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Day in the Life
In this role, you will lead the operations and maintenance of Williams’ largest installation of horsepower and power distribution equipment. You will oversee or support a diverse team of skilled professionals, including shift operators, I&E technicians, technical specialists, and mechanics, to ensure the delivery of highly reliable power. As part of the local leadership team, you will be the main point of contact for internal and external support, customer interactions, and commercial communications for the New Albany Generation sites. You will champion enterprise collaboration, leveraging Williams’ extensive resources to drive operational excellence at the sites under your care.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Ensures all work performed is in accordance with established policies and procedures; conducts annual review of operating procedures and assists in developing new procedures as needed; leads risk and incident management programs
- Leads workforce planning and career development for team members
- Develops/coordinates budgets, plan and forecasts; conducts regular cost analysis
- Cascades relevant safety-related communications to the local operations team members, including outage plans, noteworthy near misses, root cause analysis findings and lessons learned
- Promotes and proposes optimization efforts to capitalize on efficient and safe use of physical facilities
- Maintains a consistent and regular presence at work sites to supervise and audit critical safety procedures and provides immediate and regular feedback
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: High school diploma/GED and a minimum of ten (10) years' experience in processing plants, gathering, NGL/petrochemical and transmission pipelines, or other related experience
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application and PC skills
- Must possess valid State Driver’s License and clean driving record
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Why Choose Williams?
We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire. With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!
- Competitive compensation
- Annual incentive program
- Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
- Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
- 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
- Wellness Program with annual rewards
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Robust employee learning and development
- High internal mobility (we promote from within)
- Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
- Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
- Domestic partner benefits
- Educational reimbursement
- Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
- Employee resource groups
- Employee assistance programs
- Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
- Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes
Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit https://www.williams.com/careers/total-rewards/.
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Competency Requirements:
Communicates effectively, Courage (3 - Meets Expectations), Customer focus (3 - Meets Expectations), Decision quality (3 - Meets Expectations), Drives results (3 - Meets Expectations), Ensures accountability (3 - Meets Expectations), Instills trust (3 - Meets Expectations), Manages complexity (3 - Meets Expectations), Nimble learning (3 - Meets Expectations), Persuades (3 - Meets Expectations), Plans and aligns (3 - Meets Expectations), Self-development (3 - Meets Expectations)
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel.
We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future.
Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
