About this role
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.
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 a Reliability Engineer at Williams, you’ll work in a dynamic, high-tech environment supporting the safe, efficient, and dependable operation of a newly built natural gas-fired power plant providing reliable power for advanced data center operations. You’ll help establish reliability strategies, maintenance programs, equipment performance standards, and continuous improvement practices from the ground up. Working across engineering, operations, maintenance, and technology teams, you’ll identify performance risks, solve complex problems, and turn operational data into meaningful improvements.
- Meaningful impact: You’ll help improve equipment and facility performance, reduce operational risk, and strengthen long-term reliability
- Data-driven problem-solving: You’ll use PI System applications, modeling, reporting, SQL, and other analytical tools to identify anomalies and uncover improvement opportunities
- Cross-functional collaboration: You’ll partner with technical and operational teams to develop solutions, support compliance, and build practical improvement plans
- Technical leadership: You’ll serve as a subject matter expert, lead large-scope assignments, and share insights through clear, effective presentations
- Continuous improvement: You’ll be encouraged to challenge existing processes, anticipate customer needs, and improve products, services, and ways of working
- Safety-focused culture: You’ll champion procedures, standards, and decisions that keep safety at the center of our work
What You’ll Do
As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll apply broad engineering experience, sound judgment, and specialized technical knowledge to improve facility performance and support both day-to-day operations and long-term business needs.
- Lead complex engineering assignments and technical or economic evaluations for new and existing facilities, using innovation and independent judgment
- Serve as a subject matter expert for Process Information (PI) System applications, analytical tools, computer modeling, and performance reporting
- Use SQL and relational databases to organize and analyze operational data, identify anomalies, and uncover reliability and compliance improvements
- Interpret business and operational challenges, anticipate customer needs, and recommend practical improvements to products, processes, or services
- Collaborate across teams to support compliance, develop improvement plans, address training needs, and champion safety standards
- Manage costs, schedules, resources, and technical deliverables for large-scope projects and initiatives
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations and communicate recommendations to a variety of audiences
- Provide technical guidance, support continuous improvement, and oversee the work of others when needed
What You’ll Bring
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field from an ABET-accredited college or university, or a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology in a relevant field with a Professional Engineer (P.E.) license
- A minimum of eight years of multifaceted engineering experience in the natural gas or petrochemical industry
- Working knowledge of gas plant operations and the ability to apply engineering expertise across more than one subject area
- Experience using Process Information (PI) System applications, computer modeling, reporting tools, SQL, and relational databases to support analysis and decision-making
- Preferred: Experience with Power BI and project management
- Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Strong Microsoft Office and general PC skills
- A proactive, customer-focused mindset with the ability to work independently, collaborate across teams, and lead when needed
- A demonstrated commitment to safety, compliance, and continuous improvement
We welcome candidates with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. If you don’t meet every qualification, this role may be filled at a level that aligns with your skills and growth potential.
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Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
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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.