VP, HSE

At Western Midstream, the Vice President of HSE is responsible for overseeing the HSE and Security functions. The incumbent should be able to provide examples that demonstrate effective servant leadership and creation of highly effective teams. This should include effectively connecting the HSE&S team’s mission and goals to the broader corporation’s vision and mission; defining and implementing effective processes for organizational work and performance management; and selecting, coaching, and mentoring staff to create a highly successful organization. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership, and technical expertise to ensure that effective processes are put in place to continually improve WES’s ability to secure the safety and security of our people and facilities, our facilities are effectively maintained at an efficient cost, and we effectively execute operations in ways that protect the environment and ensure compliance with all regulations where we operate.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging best practices already present in the company to ensure consistent application across the enterprise while also bringing new practices and technology into the organization to elevate performance
• Provide clear and supportive leadership across the HSE function to foster a culture that supports best-in-class HSE performance. Ensure the HSE&S team culture includes a strong willingness to be a partner to the other functions within the organization, sharing the same intensity and accountability for achieving organizational objectives while ensuring safety, security and environmental stewardship are front and center in all actions taken by the organization.
• Ensure the organization has the talent and leadership to implement and sustain a best-in-class function and succession planning.
• Actively participate on the Engineering, Construction and Operations Leadership Team reporting to the COO, ensuring that our standards for safety, environmental stewardship and security are maintained in all strategic and tactical decisions made by the team.
• Lead the HSE&S Audit function to ensure that safety activities within the organization are performed in accordance with internal and external requirements, including Process Safety Management (PSM) standards, Management of Change (MOC) standards, and external regulatory requirements.
• Review HSE practices and procedures to identify opportunities to update for better performance and ensure implementation of the upgraded practices, as necessary.
• Works in collaboration with Operations to provide expectations for third-party contractor HSE and Operations Integrity Programs and audits to ensure compliance with these programs; ensures that all bid and contract documents reflect Western’s HSE and Operations Integrity requirements.
• Role model of WES Core Values

Pivotal Experience & Expertise

• Leadership Capabilities:
  • Experience partnering with other functional leadership teams, particularly operations-focused functions, to drive the HSE agenda in a collaborative, engaging, and highly influential manner at all levels of an organization.
  • A highly confident big thinker who can also notice small details.
• Enterprise Leadership Capabilities:
  • Equally effective engaging with the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors as they are with a field workforce.
  • Able to think and act at a strategic, enterprise-level beyond the HSE function while ensuring functional excellence at the field level.
  • A relationship-based individual that can ensure stability in their function and the broader organization.
  • Track record of working closely with, and being a strategic business partner to, organizational leadership and stakeholders to advance a mission.
• Functional Expertise:
  • A proven knowledge of HSE methodologies, practices and applicable leadership over the function either from functional or operational experience.
  • Familiar with an environment with the possibility of highly severe incidents with an understanding of a risk-based HSE approach.
• Relevant Industry Experience:
  • Midstream experience is preferred but not required.
  • Relevant energy experience with distributed facilities working in complex industrial processes is ideal but also not required.
• Transformation agent:
  • A proven leader with experience progressing culture cross functionally.
  • An individual with a history of shaping and thinking through strategic plans, their organizational implications and system initiatives.

Key Competencies

• Inspire and Influence:
  • Leads through influence and not just authority
  • Builds powerful relationships to help others find meaning and purpose in their work and inspiration through energetic engagement
• Drive for Results:
  • Coordinates execution by setting the appropriate pace, evoking ownership and accountability, streamlining the processes, and reallocating resources appropriately.
• Adaptability:
  • Builds strong interpersonal connection through authenticity and empathy while demonstrating the ability to transform themselves over time
• Resilience:
  • Takes ownership in overcoming setbacks and failure.
  • Guided by integrity and a deep sense of purpose.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Health and Safety or related field of study.
• 10 years of higher-level management experience at midstream process plants, refineries, or in comparable industry required.