Manager, South Facility Integrity; STX

Position: Manager, South Facility Integrity (STX)
Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world’s energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Manager, South Texas (STX) Facility Integrity with in-depth knowledge of and experience with Facility Integrity Management Programs in the Oil & Gas Industry to join our team!

Role

Summary:

The Manager, STX Facility Integrity is accountable for inspection planning, field execution, findings management, budget performance, and team leadership across the South Texas facility integrity program. The manager directs employees and contractors, maintains a risk-based multi-year inspection plan, and works with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Projects to convert inspection findings into prioritized, executable work.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the inspection program. Develop and maintain annual and multi-year inspection plans for applicable piping, pressure equipment, and other covered assets. Set priorities based on risk, equipment condition, operating needs, regulatory requirements, and available resources.

Manage inspectors and contractors. Lead team of employees and contractors. Assign work, balance workload, establish clear expectations, verify qualifications, and hold the team accountable for safe, timely, and technically sound execution.

Oversee inspection execution and quality. Coordinate scopes, schedules, access, permits, NDE resources, and deliverables. Confirm inspection reports are complete, accurate, reviewed, and entered into the appropriate integrity systems.

Own findings and remediation planning. Ensure findings are technically reviewed, risk-ranked, and translated into practical repair, replacement, monitoring, or engineering-evaluation plans. Define recommended scope, priority, timing, estimated cost, and required interim controls.

Drive work into execution. Partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Projects to create work orders and project scopes, align outage or access needs, resolve execution barriers, and track findings through documented closeout.

Manage risk and schedule. Monitor upcoming inspections, overdue work, high-priority findings, temporary repairs, deferrals, and inspection backlogs. Escalate emerging integrity risks and recommend appropriate operating or mitigative actions.

Manage the budget. Develop annual expense and capital forecasts for inspection and remediation work. Track commitments and actual spending, update forecasts, explain variances, and identify future funding needs.

Maintain program data and reporting. Ensure inspection records, equipment data, due dates, findings, remediation status, and closeout documents are accurate and traceable. Provide concise routine reporting on schedule performance, backlog, spend, and key risks.

Support compliance and assurance. Execute the South Texas program in accordance with Company procedures, applicable regulations, and relevant API, ASME, and other industry standards. Support audits, reviews, and corrective actions within the role’s site scope.

And other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements :

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Materials Engineering or other relevant discipline required.
7+ years of progressively responsible experience in facility integrity, mechanical integrity, inspection engineering, reliability engineering, asset integrity, or related disciplines within the energy, pipeline, terminal, petrochemical, refining, or process industries. Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with Facility Integrity Management Programs is…