Job Description

Global Security Director job at Apache Corporation. Houston, TX.

Specific Responsibilities

Apache seeks a strategic thinker to lead Apaches physical security program globally covering the United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, Suriname, and other exploration areas. The Director of Global Security will safeguard personnel, facilities, proprietary information, and operations from physical, reputational, and regulatory risks. This position will report to the Managing Director of Corporate Services.

• Serve as the subject matter expert and senior advisor on all security matters.
• Create and maintain security strategies and policies tailored to specific operational contexts.
• Advise on relevant legislation, ensuring compliance with laws and standards.
• Oversee employee training and awareness programs.
• Develop an intelligence program that proactively identifies threats, social, or geopolitical developments.
• Prepare reports or brief senior leaders on developing risks, opportunities, or trends impacting corporate strategy, operational planning, early-warning systems, or crisis response.
• Continuously refine and validate intelligence sources to ensure accuracy, reliability, and relevance to operations. Develop team expertise in intelligence analysis, collection, and reporting.
• Lead crisis response and support business continuity planning.
• Build relationships and collaborate with internal stakeholders, peers in the industry, suppliers, and appropriate government agencies.
• Oversee executive protection, event security, and journey management.
• Oversee loss prevention and investigations.
• Manage daily security operations, including surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, and guard forces. Evaluate and implement security technologies to improve detection and response.
• Manage the security budget and supplier contracts, continually optimizing resources.
• Oversee suppliers and contractors to ensure compliance with standards.
• Lead and mentor security team, fostering performance, accountability, and development.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors Degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of security leadership experience, which may include military, law enforcement, intelligence, or federal service. Experience should include command-level roles (E8E9, O3O4, or equivalent).
• At least 35 years of corporate security leadership experience, ideally within the energy sector, with a proven track record in optimizing budgets and supplier contracts.
• Backgrounds in military special operations, federal law enforcement, or diplomatic service are highly desirable.
• Hands-on expertise in crisis response, threat analysis, and incident management.
• Strong knowledge of security regulations applicable to oil and gas (e.g., DHS/TSA, OSHA, use-of-force laws).
• Strategic thinker and self-starter who can draft, edit, and release quality reports or presentations to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Integrity and professionalism to handle sensitive matters with confidentiality, accountability, and the highest standards of ethical conduct.
• Demonstrated communications and collaboration skills with the ability to lead others.
• Business acumen and expertise with tools like Microsoft Office suite.
• Resilient and adaptable to lead effectively in fluid, high-risk operational contexts.
• Cross-cultural fluency with international experience managing multi-site security programs is desirable.
• International deployments, multilingual in Arabic, Spanish, or Dutch a plus

Travel Requirements:

• May require frequent travel to domestic and international sites for operational oversight, crisis response, and executive engagement.

Competencies

The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

• Core Competencies
  • Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
  • Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apaches business success;
  • Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
  • Culture: Willingness and ability to align ones behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.

• Leadership Competencies
  • Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
  • Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
  • Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
  • Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.

Nearly 3 billion people roughly one-third of the global population live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.

The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.

Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.

We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.

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Apache Statement on Hiring

To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.

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