VP Safety and Enterprise Resilience

Boardwalk Pipelines, LP Human Resources • Houston, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Boardwalk is a limited partnership operating in the midstream portion of the natural gas and natural gas liquids industry, providing transportation and storage services for our customers. Our 14,000 miles of pipeline and storage assets provide diverse market connectivity to producers and end-users who need reliable sources of natural gas for power generation, home heating or petrochemical feedstocks. We have the experience, knowledge, and flexibility to design service offerings and create system enhancements tailored to our customers’ needs throughout the 13 states in which we operate. As an organization focused on sustainability, we are committed to protecting the environment while delivering this energy source. This commitment is made to our customers, employees, and the communities in which we operate. We incorporate environmental stewardship, safety, and compliance into our day-to-day operations and seek to strengthen and support the communities we serve. Additional information about the company can be found online at www.bwpipelines.com.
We are currently looking for a Vice President of Safety & Enterprise Resilience for our Houston, TX office.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Job Purpose
Join a collaborative, high-performing Safety team focused on delivering safety and well-being of the people, operations and infrastructure at Boardwalk. The Vice President of Safety & Enterprise Resilience will drive the evolution of Boardwalk’s safety capability into a cohesive, enterprise wide model that aligns safety, security, and organizational resilience under a single strategic leadership framework aligned to operational risk and crisis management.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, Safety & Enterprise Resilience, this role provides enterprise leadership to unify safety, security, and resilience into a single, integrated capability combined with Boardwalk’s operational risk profile and crisis response strategy.
This position partners closely with the CISO for cybersecurity, OT security, threat intelligence, and incident escalation.
Summary Overview
The Vice President, Safety and Enterprise Resilience will serve as Boardwalk’s enterprise leader for protecting people, operations, and critical infrastructure across the full lifecycle of risk—prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and restart. This role leads the evolution of Boardwalk’s safety function into a fully integrated enterprise capability that unifies safety, security, and resilience under a single leadership model cohesive with operational risk and crisis response.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in safety, security, operational risk, or enterprise resilience.
• Deep expertise in industrial safety, process safety, or pipeline safety management systems.
• Experience leading crisis management or emergency response at an enterprise scale.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence executive decision making.
• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks relevant to midstream energy operations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in midstream, energy infrastructure, utilities, or other high hazard industries.
• Familiarity with API RP 1173, NIMS/ICS, and enterprise security frameworks.
• Demonstrated success building or transforming enterprise risk or resilience functions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all core safety functions, including employee safety, construction safety, and process safety.
• Lead employee and occupational safety programs, including safety culture, event reporting, investigations, and learning.
• Strengthen construction safety programs in high risk, temporary work environments.
• Oversee PSMS governance and alignment with API RP 1173.
• Integrate Management of Change (MOC) into enterprise processes.
• Drive cross functional risk alignment with Operations, Project Execution, and Asset Performance teams.
• Ensure process hazard identification and learning from incidents are embedded in planning, design, and construction.
• Lead the integrated Enterprise Security function, covering physical, infrastructure, workforce, and executive security.
• Protect facilities, assets, and critical asset infrastructure through risk based security standards.
• Oversee access control, surveillance, monitoring, and law enforcement coordination.
• Lead workforce and contractor security programs, insider risk mitigation, and threat response protocols.
• Manage executive protection and travel security programs.
• Lead Boardwalk’s enterprise crisis readiness, response, and recovery capabilities.
• Own the Corporate Crisis Management framework and activation criteria.
• Direct enterprise crisis drills, exercises, and incident command training.
• Provide executive decision support during major events.
• Coordinate with external agencies during crises.
• Oversee recovery and restart security posture and post incident stabilization.
• Serve as the enterprise authority on operational risk, safety, security, and resilience.
• Partner with business units that retain direct ownership of risk response activities.
• Strengthen regulatory credibility and stakeholder confidence.
• Position Boardwalk as a best in class midstream operator.

Benefits

• Boardwalk Pipelines, LP, maintains a drug-free workplace and will require pre-employment drug & substance abuse testing before hiring.
• Boardwalk Pipelines, LP, is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed