# Williams International **Type:** venture **Status:** Draft **Confidence:** Medium **Tier:** B **Focus:** small gas turbine engines, business jet propulsion, cruise missile propulsion, precision manufacturing, engine MRO **Roles:** hardware-engineering, software-engineering, manufacturing-operations **Stage:** Established; privately held since 1955; Ogden, UT site operating since 1978 and expanding **Ownership:** private **Primary Location:** Pontiac, MI **Utah Location:** Ogden, UT **Region:** Ogden **Map Location:** 3450 Sam Williams Drive, Ogden, UT 84401 **Coordinates:** 41.201, -112.010 **Location Precision:** exact **Location Source:** https://enviro.epa.gov/triexplorer/release_fac_profile?TRI=84403WLLMS3450S&TRILIB=TRIQ1 **Careers:** https://www.williams-int.com/careers/ **Website:** https://www.williams-int.com/ **Domain:** aerospace-defense, materials-mfg **Updated:** 2026-08-11 **Needs-reviewed:** 2026-08-11 **Pull:** *A 900+ employee Ogden gas-turbine engine plant planning roughly $1B in Utah capital investment and 300+ new high-wage jobs.* **Relates:** cites [Official Website: Williams International](williams-international-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/williams-international-official-website.md · https://www.williams-int.com/ ## Summary Williams International is a privately held, vertically integrated manufacturer of small gas turbine engines founded in Michigan by Dr. Sam B. Williams. Its Ogden, Utah plant has operated for decades and is undergoing an expansion. The captured official company source confirms the business and location but not the state-reported headcount, floor area, jobs, investment, or incentive terms; those figures require captured state and city records. Williams International is not a startup: it is a 70-year-old, founder-descended private manufacturer with an established, decades-old product line. Its roughly 900-employee Ogden site, state-flagged nine-figure-to-billion-dollar Utah expansion, and current hiring make it a durable aerospace anchor in a city that gets comparatively little attention next to the Wasatch Front's Salt Lake- and Hill-centered defense cluster. ## Impact Williams' product line spans military cruise-missile engines and commercial fanjets used in light business aircraft. Production totals and fleet-hour claims from a state economic-development citation are not retained here because that record does not yet have a captured source page. The Ogden expansion is a concrete, publicly cited bet on Utah rather than a speculative one. State and city materials describe incentives intended to keep the expansion in Utah rather than competing states, but the capital schedule and employment commitments need captured source pages. The honest bound on this impact: this is durable precision manufacturing and sustaining engineering for an established product family, not frontier propulsion R&D in progress. ## Utah Context Williams International sits in Ogden's Weber County aerospace-manufacturing corridor, a few miles from [Hill Air Force Base](hill-air-force-base.md)'s Ogden Air Logistics Complex, though available public sourcing does not establish Williams as a Hill prime contractor — the two are best understood as separate anchors of the same regional aerospace-manufacturing labor market rather than as a supply-chain pair. It is a much smaller and more narrowly focused manufacturer than [Northrop Grumman's Promontory facility](northrop-grumman-promontory.md) (solid rocket motors, roughly 5,000+ employees) but plays a comparable role for Ogden that Promontory plays for Box Elder County: a decades-old, single-site aerospace employer that does not require relocating to a coastal aerospace hub. [47G](47g-utah-aerospace-and-defense-association.md), the statewide aerospace/defense association, is the natural ecosystem connector for a manufacturer at this scale. ## What They Need Now Williams' public materials point to durable role families rather than a churning list of current openings. The company maintains standing, location-specific recruiting pages for CNC machinist and precision-manufacturing/production roles at its Ogden site specifically. On the engineering side, Williams runs an Engineering Rotational Program for new graduates across mechanical design, analysis, controls, software, manufacturing engineering, and engine test. The reported facility expansion also implies ongoing demand for facilities, project, and quality engineering, though the company does not itemize these publicly. ## Who Could Help Useful helpers include Ogden-area workforce-training partners (the state and city incentive package earmarks dedicated job-creation and job-training funding), Utah Department of Workforce Services placement staff, Weber County and Ogden City economic-development offices already engaged on the expansion, and veteran-hiring pipelines — Williams is separately recognized by both the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency and the Utah Patriot Partnership for veteran recruiting and retention. ## Open Questions - Williams' own website does not connect its current business to its documented military/cruise-missile engine history anywhere found on the current site; that connection here rests on Utah/Ogden government economic-development documents, Wikipedia, and a Michigan environmental-permit inspection record rather than the company's current self-description — a stronger source would be a company-published military-programs page, if one exists but was not found. - Neither the company nor available government sourcing states what fraction of the roughly 900 current Ogden employees (or the 316 planned new positions) are engineering versus production/skilled-trades roles. - News coverage of the expansion (ABC4, February 2025) states that "the timeline of the company's expansion, and when jobs might open for applications, is not immediately clear" — public sourcing on expansion pacing may now be dated given the incentive was finalized in early-to-mid 2025. - Is the Ogden site a full design-to-production facility, as one third-party business-profile aggregator claims, or primarily manufacturing/final-assembly with design centered at the Michigan headquarters? Williams' own site does not break this out by location. - Ownership structure beyond "privately owned" is not independently confirmed here — the company is run by chairman/president/CEO Gregg G. Williams, but this page does not assert a specific founder-family-ownership claim without stronger sourcing. - Confirm current status of the EDTIF-/TIF-funded electrical-infrastructure upgrade, which both the state and city describe as a gating item for the expansion to proceed. ## Evidence - [Official Website: Williams International](williams-international-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/williams-international-official-website.md · https://www.williams-int.com/ - [Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity: Williams International Expands Operations in Weber County](https://business.utah.gov/tax-credits/williams-international-expands-operations-in-weber-county/) · https://business.utah.gov/tax-credits/williams-international-expands-operations-in-weber-county/ - [Ogden City RDA: Williams International Participation & Incentive Agreement presentation, Feb. 2025](https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32483/WS04-20250211_Williams_Incentive) · https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32483/WS04-20250211_Williams_Incentive - [Ogden City RDA: Airport CRA / Williams Intl. Participation and Incentive Agreement, full board memo](https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32702/03-11-25-RDA-Airport-CRA-Williams-Intl-PIA) · https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32702/03-11-25-RDA-Airport-CRA-Williams-Intl-PIA - [Ogden City Council meeting minutes, March 11, 2025 (Williams International incentive resolution)](https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33689/03-11-25-RDA) · https://www.ogdencity.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33689/03-11-25-RDA - [Ogden City newsflash: Williams International Expands in Ogden, Adding 300 High-Wage Jobs and $1 Billion in Investments](http://www.ogdencity.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/880) · http://www.ogdencity.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/880 - [U.S. EPA TRI Explorer facility profile: Williams International Co LLC, Ogden](https://enviro.epa.gov/triexplorer/release_fac_profile?TRI=84403WLLMS3450S&TRILIB=TRIQ1) · https://enviro.epa.gov/triexplorer/release_fac_profile?TRI=84403WLLMS3450S&TRILIB=TRIQ1 — federal facility record giving the Ogden site's address and coordinates. - [Wikipedia: Williams International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_International) · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_International — independent corroboration of founding history and the military-engine product line; supporting evidence, not sufficient alone. - [Wikipedia: Williams F107](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_F107) · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_F107 — cruise-missile turbofan program detail (AGM-86 ALCM, BGM-109 Tomahawk lineage). ## See Also - [Hill Air Force Base](hill-air-force-base.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/hill-air-force-base.md — the other large Ogden-area aerospace-defense anchor, government rather than private. - [Northrop Grumman — Promontory Facility](northrop-grumman-promontory.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/northrop-grumman-promontory.md — a much larger northern-Utah aerospace-defense manufacturer; useful scale comparison. - [47G - Utah Aerospace & Defense Association](47g-utah-aerospace-and-defense-association.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/47g-utah-aerospace-and-defense-association.md — statewide ecosystem body for aerospace/defense manufacturers.