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Manager, Environment and Regulatory - CGL

TC Energy

Calgary

Hybrid

CAD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

TC Energy is seeking a Manager for their Environment and Regulatory team in Calgary. This role involves leading regulatory activities for Coastal GasLink projects and ensuring compliance with environmental standards. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience and a strong background in regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience in environmental and regulatory permitting.
  • Formal leadership capabilities required.
  • Strong knowledge of federal and provincial laws related to Canadian gas assets.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Environment and Regulatory team for Coastal GasLink projects.
  • Ensure compliance with environmental and regulatory requirements.
  • Build and maintain relationships with regulatory authorities.

Skills

Leadership
Analytical skills
Negotiation
Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Determined. Imaginative. Curious. If these are some of the ways you describe yourself — we want to learn more about you! At TC Energy, we are Energy Problem Solvers — passionate about transitioning North America to cleaner energy while meeting the energy demands of today and tomorrow. If that sounds like a challenge you want to help tackle, we want you to join our team!

The Opportunity

Our Regulatory Team is looking to add an #EnergyProblemSolver in Calgary to manage our Coastal GasLink (CGL) Environment and Regulatory team for our Canada Gas Business unit.

We are seeking a Manager, Environment and Regulatory – CGL to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Environment, Land and Regulatory – CGL. This position will lead the team responsible for environment and regulatory activities on CGL. We will count on your leadership, expertise and ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, to ensure environment and regulatory requirements are being met. As part of the CGL Team, the Environment and Regulatory team supports the development, implementation and construction of all CGL projects by maintaining environmental support for construction, environmental and regulatory planning and permitting and by managing risks in these key areas.

The successful candidate will lead a highly skilled team who regularly communicate with regulatory authorities and agencies regarding incidents, inspections, audits and emergencies. They will support with interpretation of current and proposed regulations, legislations, guidelines, and standards. The team also manages third-party environmental consultants, provides technical environmental advice and completes environmental and regulatory risk assessments. The position requires the ability to establish and maintain relationships across the business and externally, enhance credibility and trust, and influence and manage at multiple levels of the organization.

The Environment and Regulatory team maintain the primary relationships with regulators, as well as working with a variety of stakeholders and rightsholders. The ability to negotiate with and influence senior stakeholders across multiple departments, regulators, government bodies and third parties is critical to the success of this role.

What you’ll do

  • Responsible for Environment and Regulatory activities for all projects associated with CGL

  • Provide senior technical oversight and technical review to ensure consistency in the planning and execution of environmental assessments and support for federal, provincial and local regulatory permitting

  • Lead and provide integrated strategic direction to the Environment and Regulatory Team and coordinate with other CGL departments

  • Support environmental and regulatory advisors in recruiting and managing third-party consultants, including review of Request for Proposals, bids, consultants' work scope, budget, and schedule

  • Ensure consistent direction is provided to external contractors, and business partners by environmental and regulatory advisors to ensure overall corporate and project objectives are consistently met

  • Provide regular reporting and participation in strategic planning for the project

  • Maintain relationships with Coastal GasLink’s primary regulators the BCER and the BC Environmental Assessment Office.

  • Accountable to work with the teams within CGL to proactively manage budgets and costs of providing Environment and Regulatory services

  • Maintain a resourcing strategy to meet the needs of the project in Environment and Regulatory and ensure consistency with CGL expectations

  • Lead in the identification and execution of risk management strategies and corrective actions to ensure compliance with commitments and relevant regulatory requirements are met

  • Support regulatory agency audits, face-to-face meetings with auditors, preparation of corrective action plans to audit findings and status reports to management

  • Organize regular team meetings with environmental and regulatory advisors to identify issues and support resolution

  • Identify emerging common technical environmental and regulatory issues and risks and present potential solutions to the senior manager

  • Organizes broad lessons learned and apply solutions to environmental and regulatory policies and procedures

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field

  • Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience in industry with the majority in a role related to environmental and regulatory permitting and compliance including significant field experience

  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including holding a formal leadership position

  • Strong understanding of Federal and Provincial Laws, Regulations, Guidelines and Practices applicable to Canadian Gas Assets (CER, EAO and BCER)

  • Strong knowledge of pipeline and facilities construction methods and associated federal, provincial, Indigenous and stakeholder interests

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ability to make decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity to interpret policy

  • Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving abilities in risk identification, communication, prioritization and management

  • Analytical skills and proven ability to extract and synthesize data from multiple sources

  • Ability to work within formal and informal organizational networks as well as demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization

This position requires candidates to:

  • Travel to other company locations for temporary assignments, meetings or training

  • Stay overnight away from home base (estimated up 10% of work schedule)

  • Be on-site to support field preparation and regulatory engagement when required

  • Have and maintain a valid driver's license and provide a driver's abstract (record) for review

To remain competitive, support our high-performance culture and allow for more flexibility in the way we work, we offer a hybrid work model and flexible dress code for our eligible office-based workforce in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. #LI-Hybrid

About our business

TC Energy is a leading energy infrastructure company in North America. We have three complementary businesses of natural gas pipelines, liquids (oil) pipelines, and power generation. Our operations span three countries, seven Canadian provinces, and 34 U.S. states.


TC Energy is an equal opportunity employer.

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Thank you for choosing TC Energy in your career search.

* Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

* Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.

* All positions require background screening. Some require criminal and/or credit checks to comply with regulations.

* TC Energy is committed to provide employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available on request during the recruitment process. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats or communication supports by contacting careers@tcenergy.com.

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