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.

Power the Digital Age with Us

At Williams, we’re not only making energy happen, we’re transforming how it powers the future. With exciting data center projects underway, we’re expanding our team to support these high-tech facilities with reliable, clean energy. If you’re passionate about hands-on work, cutting-edge technology, and making a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Learn more about these projects at: Power Innovation | Williams Companies

What You’ll Experience

As an Operations Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing team focused on safe, compliant, and efficient operations. You’ll play a key role in developing procedures, managing risk, and driving performance across multiple sites. This position offers the opportunity to influence strategic planning, workforce development, and operational optimization.

You’ll be a visible leader in the field, regularly auditing safety procedures and providing real-time feedback to ensure our standards are upheld. Your leadership will help shape a culture of accountability, innovation, and safety.

What You’ll Do

As an Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring all work is performed in accordance with established policies and procedures

• Conducting annual reviews of operating procedures and assisting in the development of new procedures

• Leading risk and incident management programs

• Driving workforce planning and career development for team members

• Developing and coordinating budgets, plans, and forecasts, and conducting regular cost analysis

• Communicating safety-related updates to local operations teams, including outage plans, near misses, root cause findings, and lessons learned

• Promoting and proposing optimization efforts to enhance safe and efficient use of physical facilities

• Maintaining a consistent presence at work sites to supervise and audit critical safety procedures

• Providing immediate and regular feedback to team members

• Performing other duties as assigned

What You’ll Bring

Required:

• High school diploma or GED

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in processing plants, gathering, NGL/petrochemical, transmission pipelines, or related operations

• Valid State Driver’s License with a clean driving record

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills

• Commitment to safety as a top priority

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree

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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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