Company Highlight: Williams Construction
04/05/2019
Established in 1953, Williams Construction is a third-generation, family-owned company with an appetite for complex construction projects. Williams moved to MAIP in 1976 to be closer to their clients, and have since expanded their space three times in addition to an office remodel in 2018. With an employee-combined construction experience of almost 600 years, they are able to offer exceptional depth of knowledge and an extraordinary range of skills and expertise to alleviate the complexity and stress of the project for the client.
Williams Construction believes the key to their 65 years of continued success lies in consistently maintaining their core focus of improving the lives of their clients, employees, their families and the community throughout their years of being in business. They pride themselves in their ability to adapt to an ever-changing construction market and environment while maintaining an exceptional contractor-client relationship throughout the entire construction process.
Williams always holds high safety and quality standards as a top priority. Combining these standards with a highly-skilled and responsive workforce, they excel with technical, high-risk and tight-deadline projects. They continue to seek highly challenging, critical construction and industrial maintenance projects in many industries such as aerospace, petrochemical, power generation, pulp/paper, food processing, fertilizer, and manufacturing.
With a 90% repeat customer rate and a proven track record of safety and quality, Williams sets itself apart from the competition. In the past 3 years, they have completed over 910,000 on the job safety hours with all of their jobs being completed ahead of or on schedule.
Williams has completed many projects for clients in the Industrial Park including the GRDA Carbon Injection System Installation, Cabot Coal Bin Replacement and GRDA Coal Dumper Replacement. To date, Williams has successfully completed four coal dumper replacement projects. The team at Williams has found a niche in completing critical coal dumper projects. They are able to utilize the expertise of their project managers, safety team and highly skilled field team to ensure that the jobs are done correctly, safely and timely.
As a local, family-owned business, Williams places a high priority on local philanthropy. For over 12 years, they have been participating with both Pryor CARD (Community Action Resource & Development) Head Start locations by providing a Christmas gift from Santa for each of the children in the program. They also support the Indian Nations Boy Scouts of America, Lions Club and Rotary Club along with Rogers State University.
Williams continues to prove themselves dedicated to the community through their service to these local programs. Their commitment to their values, employees and the Tulsa community for the past 65 years sets Williams apart and makes them a cornerstone of Mid America Industrial Park.
Williams’ President, Mike McGehee said, “The present strategy of Williams Construction is one for future growth while continuing to maintain our high safety and quality standards. Our customer focus will continue to be industrial and maintenance opportunities primarily within a 75-mile radius of Pryor, which makes our location in the MAIP truly an asset. Along with our appetite for tough and complex projects, we are a reliable, highly skilled and financially stable company that will continue to provide specialized and critical construction and maintenance services for many years to come.”
MidAmerica enjoys the partnership with Williams as well. MidAmerica General Manager, Larry Williams said, “Williams Construction Company has been the general contractor on multiple MidAmerica construction projects, including our administrative office building back in 1993. We continually receive compliments from visitors about the quality workmanship Williams’ put into the finished project. We find that to be true with every project Williams tackles. Williams employees, from top to bottom, are highly valued members of the MidAmerica Industrial Park family. Anytime there is volunteer work to be done in our community, you just have to look around and you will find a team of Williams staff members hard at work.”