A Place to Grow and Make a Difference

I did not expect to spend my career in energy. I joined Boardwalk for a role that looked interesting on paper, in a part of the business most people never see, and I assumed I would learn what I could and move on. Fifteen years later I am still here, and the reason has very little to do with the job description I answered.

What kept me was the scope of the work and the people I got to do it with. Regulatory affairs sits between the engineers who build the system and the agencies and communities who depend on it being run well. On any given week that means translating a technical case into plain language, or explaining to a project team why a commitment we made three years ago still binds us. It is detailed, unglamorous work, and it matters enormously.

Boardwalk is large enough to be interesting and small enough that you are not anonymous. That combination is rarer than it sounds. When I raised my hand for work outside my remit, nobody asked me to wait my turn — they asked what I needed. I have sat in on open seasons, walked compressor stations with operations, and spent time with landowners who wanted to understand what was being built near them.

Every one of those experiences made me better at the actual job. You cannot represent a system credibly to a regulator if you have never stood next to it. The people here understand that, and they make the space for it.

The same is true of the people I have hired. The best ones arrive curious about something adjacent to their role, and the organisation tends to reward that rather than tidy it away.

Careers are built out of the problems you are trusted with. What Boardwalk has given me is a steady supply of problems worth solving, and colleagues who assume I am capable of solving them.

If you are weighing a move into this industry, my advice is simple: look past the title and ask what you will actually get to work on, and who you will get to learn from. That is what makes a place worth staying.