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Our core assets provide services for customers in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado, and the Powder River Basin in Northeast Wyoming. Additional assets and investments are located in South Texas, Utah, and Southwest Wyoming.

We're engaged in the business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing and transporting condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil; and gathering, transporting, recycling, treating and disposing of produced water for our customers. In our capacity as a natural gas processor, we also buy and sell natural gas, NGLs, and condensate on our behalf and our customers under certain gas processing contracts.

Western Midstream (WES) is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, WES.

Western Midstream seeks an experienced Technical Security Advisor to join the Health, Safety, Environmental & Security organization in The Woodlands, Texas. This experienced individual contributor provides day-to-day administration, engineering support, and lifecycle management for enterprise physical security systems at The Woodlands headquarters and throughout Western Midstream assets. The Advisor serves as the technical lead for Genetec Security Center and related integrated security technologies, including access control, video surveillance, communications, alarm monitoring, and emergency notification systems.

The role partners closely with Regional Security teams, Information Technology, Operations, Engineering, and external service providers to maintain reliable, secure, scalable, and fit-for-purpose systems, while planning and managing technical security projects from scope development through implementation, commissioning, and turnover.

• Administer, configure, program, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain enterprise physical security systems, including Genetec Security Center modules such as Synergis, Omnicast, Sipelia, Dynamic Maps, and Threat Level Management.
• Provide lifecycle support for video surveillance, access control, alarm monitoring, intercom, public address, emergency communications, automated notification, and related integrated security technologies.
• Design and support high-availability security system infrastructure, including servers, databases, backups, disaster recovery, failover capabilities, network and infrastructure dependencies, power, and communications considerations.
• Manage enterprise access control, including cardholder databases, credentials, access levels, schedules, employee and contractor badge issuance, replacement badges, access changes, automated workflows, and related records in accordance with established requirements.
• Install, provision, maintain, and troubleshoot security hardware, including Axis cameras, Axis Powered by Genetec door controllers, Mercury controllers, OSDP readers, intercoms, alarm devices, and related field equipment.
• Configure, program, and test SIP-based intercom and communications systems, duress alarms, panic buttons, Dynamic Maps, event-to-action workflows, automated facility lockdowns, emergency notification systems, and related incident response procedures.
• Monitor system health, security, and performance; identify outages, recurring issues, vulnerabilities, technology gaps, and lifecycle risks; determine root causes; and coordinate corrective actions to maintain reliability and continuity.
• Serve as a technical security partner to Regional Security teams by responding to asset needs, supporting field troubleshooting, and promoting consistent system operation across regions.
• Travel to company locations as needed to diagnose equipment issues, coordinate or perform repairs, validate system functionality, and support project execution.
• Analyze existing and proposed security systems to identify technical and operational gaps and recommend practical, risk-informed solutions in coordination with Security leadership and Regional Security teams.
• Serve as the Security liaison with Information Technology for system architecture and design, enterprise networking, cybersecurity coordination, infrastructure dependencies, integrations, and complex troubleshooting.
• Develop project scopes, technical requirements, budgets, schedules, bills of material, work scopes, cost estimates, and other required documentation for technical security projects.
• Manage technical…