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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.
Within the Automation group you will develop and implement condition-based maintenance programs, enhance the reliability of automation systems, and assist with equipment outages and maintenance. Your responsibilities include reviewing management of change plans, supporting project design and automation systems, developing and delivering training programs, coordinating firmware and software testing, creating implementation plans, and performing due diligence.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Engineer Staff:
As Engineer Staff - Automation, you will provide programming, troubleshooting, training and commissioning services for sophisticated automated compression and process control systems throughout the enterprise. Confidence in presentation-making and the ability to work independently and as a team leader are essential in this role. Taking initiative, anticipating customer needs and crafting innovative solutions are keys to success!
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Provides technical expertise in automation for specialty, geographic area, or operational function
- Makes decisions and solves unique and complex issues within the broader function, company and industry standard methodologies
- Applies specialized knowledge in the effective completion of major projects while supervising and controlling costs and resources associated with projects
- Prepares and delivers presentations
- Maintains a strong understanding of industry and operational requirements
- Interprets and anticipates internal and external business challenges and customer needs; improves products, processes or services and identifies solutions
- Collaborates with teams to ensure compliance, build improvement plans and meet training needs
- Serves as content lead and custodian for operations and maintenance requirements, guidelines and variance requests
- Supports technical security initiatives and hardware refreshes
- Technical specialist for additions, suspensions and deletions of approved manufacturer list for enterprise
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in relevant Engineering field from an accredited college or university, OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Technology in a relevant field with Professional Engineer (P.E.) license; A minimum of fifteen (15) years of engineering experience in the natural gas or petrochemical industry
- Preferred: PE Certification
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application and PC skills
- Sophisticated knowledge in enterprise administration, maintenance, reporting and support for AssetCentre and other enterprise automation systems and software
- Proven understanding of programmable logic control (PCI), distributed control (DCS) and human-machine interface (HMI) systems and programming protocols for operations support
Engineer Sr:
As Engineer Sr - Automation, you will provide programming, troubleshooting, training and commissioning services for sophisticated automated compression and process control systems throughout the enterprise. Confidence in presentation-making and the ability to work independently and as a team leader are crucial in this role. Taking initiative, anticipating customer needs and crafting innovative solutions are keys to success!
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Demonstrates technical expertise in automation for specialty, geographic area, or operational function
- Applies specialized knowledge in the effective completion of major projects while supervising and controlling costs and resources associated with projects
- Prepares and delivers presentations
- Maintains a strong understanding of industry and operational requirements
- Interprets and anticipates internal and external business challenges and customer needs; improves products, processes or services and identifies solutions
- Collaborates with teams to ensure compliance, build improvement plans and meet training needs
- Serves as content lead and custodian for operations and maintenance requirements, guidelines and variance requests
- Supports technical security initiatives and hardware refreshes
- Technical specialist for additions, suspensions and deletions of approved manufacturer list for enterprise
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in relevant Engineering field from an accredited college or university, OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Technology in a relevant field with Professional Engineer (P.E.) license; A minimum of eight (8) years' engineering experience in the natural gas or petrochemical industry
- Preferred: PE Certification
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application and PC skills
- Sophisticated knowledge in enterprise administration, maintenance, reporting and support for AssetCentre and other enterprise automation systems and software
- Proven understanding of programmable logic control (PCI), distributed control (DCS) and human-machine interface (HMI) systems and programming protocols for operations support
Technical Specialist Staff
As Technical Specialist Staff, you’ll serve as a subject matter specialist in your field. This role is responsible for developing and implementing operational standards and technical specifications, so attention to detail and safety are top priorities. It’s also a leadership role, required to coordinate the work of team members and leads presentations to management!
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Performs tasks that safely ensure system integrity, support pipeline operations and maintain regulatory compliance and facility equipment
- Serves as subject matter specialist and leader in a specific technical field
- Develops and implements operational and/or technical standards and specifications
- Troubleshoots/resolves sophisticated problems using existing precedents/procedures
- Provides technical/operational mentorship
- Accounts for the technical aspect of the project plan and collaborates with company partners
- Drives development and tasks associated with operations, equipment maintenance, technical standards and/or governmental requirements
- Leads team projects of major scope or unusual complexity that has an impact on profitability
- Adheres to Company policies and safety procedures
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: High school diploma/GED with equivalent experience or Associates degree and a minimum eight (8) years’ experience in oil & gas industry
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in a technical field or engineering and a minimum fifteen (15) years of progressive experience in field operations or other technical specialty field
Physical and Environment Work Requirements:
Must be willing to:
- Work in extreme temperatures, with loud noises and in enclosed spaces
- Carry or lift items up to 50 lbs and team lift loads of more than 50 lbs as needed
- Stand, walk, climb, bend, stoop, and squat, often for long periods of time
- Work at elevated levels, potentially from man lifts, ladders, scaffolding, and/or small towers, with appropriate PPE (Personal Protection Equipment)
- Use hand tools
Shift/Work Hours/Travel Requirements:
- Available to work after hours, on-call rotations, nights, weekend shifts and holidays as the need arises
- May be required to work overtime, 10-12 hour shifts and travel between Williams locations with occasional overnight stays
Other Requirements:
- Must possess valid State Driver’s License and clean driving record
- Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application and PC skills and experience in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), HMI, Allen Bradley and SCADA solutions
- Familiar with Distributed Control System (DCS) programming (Yokogawa)
Technical Specialist Sr:
As Technical Specialist Sr., - Automation, you will provide programming, troubleshooting, training and commissioning services for sophisticated automated compression and process control systems throughout the enterprise. Confidence in presentation-making and the ability to work independently and as a team leader are vital in this role. Taking initiative, anticipating customer needs and crafting innovative solutions are keys to success!
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Demonstrates technical expertise in automation for specialty, geographic area, or operational function
- Applies specialized knowledge in the efficient and effective completion of major projects while coordinating and controlling costs and resources associated with projects
- Prepares and delivers presentations
- Maintains a strong understanding of industry and operational requirements
- Interprets and anticipates internal and external business challenges and customer needs; improves products, processes or services and identifies solutions
- Collaborates with teams to ensure compliance, build improvement plans and meet training needs
- Serves as content lead and custodian for operations and maintenance requirements, guidelines and variance requests
- Supports technical security initiatives and hardware refreshes
- Supports approved manufacturer list for enterprise
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: High school diploma/GED and minimum eight (8) years of progressive experience in the natural gas or petrochemical industry
- 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
- Sophisticated knowledge in enterprise administration, maintenance, reporting and support for AssetCentre and other enterprise automation systems and software
- Solid understanding of programmable logic control, distributed control and human-machine interface systems and programming protocols for operations support
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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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Collaborates (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Communicates effectively (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Customer focus (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Drives results (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Ensures accountability (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Instills trust (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.
