Mgr System Planning

About the role

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 of System Planning, you will lead a team responsible for system planning activities that support safe, reliable, and efficient pipeline operations, including capacity analysis, operational optimization, and fuel‑use minimization. You will establish and drive planning policies, processes, standards, and modeling methodologies across the operational area, while providing strategic oversight of hydraulic model assumptions, operational impact assessments, capacity evaluations, and outage studies. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Pipeline Control, Operations, and Project teams to support operational planning, system optimization, and expansion project development, ensuring sound technical decisions that enhance system performance, reliability, and long‑term business objectives. Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities

• Performs hydraulic modeling on natural gas and liquids pipeline systems using steady‑state and transient simulations to evaluate performance and identify optimization opportunities
• Works closely with internal partners to scope facilities required for expansion projects
• Collaborates with pipeline control, operations, and commercial functions to identify hydraulic impacts and help plan outages on the system
• Develops new application tools, facilitates improvements in design modeling philosophies, and provides training and support to enhance the organization's capabilities as it relates to hydraulic modeling
• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and provides technical mentoring to direct reports in their team
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of pipeline operations, system requirements, and the interstate transmission project development process
• Manages team responsible for system planning activities, including capacity analysis, optimization of near‑term load and minimization of fuel use for operations; develops and drives the policies, processes and standards for system planning across Williams
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and a minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in pipeline hydraulic modeling. Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering and fifteen (15) years’ experience in pipeline hydraulic modeling and PE license.

Qualifications

Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills. Hydraulic simulation modeling experience.

Skills

Preferred experience with Excel, VBA, PowerBi, Python, Power Automate. Preferred experience with DNV‑GL SYNERGI and SPS Gas Modeling Software.