Working at Williams

This retiring employee joined Williams the same year man landed on the moon

After 54 years, Jack Crowder is hanging up his Williams hard hat. 

Crowder, a senior operations technician at Station 160 in Reidsville, North Carolina, is retiring after five decades of service to Williams. 

Crowder said he’s had a great career at Williams, with co-workers who are like family. 

ā€œI’ve enjoyed the work,ā€ he said. ā€œEveryone here is willing and able to pitch in and help out and get the job done. It’s going to be a big change. That’s for sure.ā€ 

Williams President & CEO Alan Armstrong congratulated Crowder on a surprise call.  

ā€œThanks Jack, for spending your career with the company and making it a better place,ā€ he said. ā€œYou’ve kept things running and safe for a long time and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate it.ā€

Crowder has worked out of Station 160 for most of his 54-year career. He spent 14 years working on right-of-way projects up and down Williams’ Transco Pipeline.  ā€œI grew up on a farm and saw a chance to better myself with a job at Williams and it’s been a great career,ā€ Crowder said when celebrating his 50th anniversary four years ago. ā€œI have pretty much put my hands on everything here, more than once.ā€