Senior Regulatory Analyst

Hercules Offshore; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hercules Offshore is seeking a Senior Regulatory Analyst to ensure regulatory compliance for offshore operations and projects in Houston, Texas. The candidate will work closely with engineering, sustainability, safety, and project management teams, defining deliverables, assessing compliance risks, and performing audits to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.

This position requires an engineering degree and experience with offshore regulatory standards, making it crucial for maintaining operational licenses and preventing non-compliance issues.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required.
• Experience in offshore platform regulations essential.
• Advanced English proficiency is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Define scope and deadlines for compliance deliverables.
• Support engineering and operations teams in compliance efforts.
• Consolidate engineering documentation related to compliance.
• Guide inspections and audits of offshore facilities.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Technical documentation

Offshore operations knowledge

Audit support

Advanced English

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

The Senior Regulatory Analyst will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance for offshore operations and projects, defining deliverable scopes and deadlines, and supporting engineering, sustainability, safety, project management, and operations teams. This position will coordinate regulatory requirements, consolidate technical documentation, assess compliance risks, support audits and inspections, and implement action plans to address findings. The role contributes directly to maintaining operational licenses, preventing non‑compliance, avoiding fines or interdictions and ensuring alignment with internal schedules, budgets and applicable requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define the scope and deadlines for deliverables that sustain compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, observing production schedules and budgets
• Support the definition of responsibilities and resources to achieve regulatory compliance efficiently, observing the organization charts and budgets
• Incorporate lessons learned to Hercules Offshore, set action plans to prevent or address audit findings, notifications, and conditions to operate imposed by the Authorities
• Collaborate with engineering, sustainability, safety, project management, and operations to ensure awareness of regulatory requirements, build compliance, and fulfill Hercules Offshore schedules.
• Ensure that compliance-related tasks are executed efficiently, facilitating licenses and approvals, as well as preventing fines and interdictions
• Consolidate engineering document lists, including all tech safety studies that are required to grant and sustain licenses and approvals needed to operate
• Assess the content of engineering, tech safety, and other management system documents to provide proper support and guidance to achieve compliance.
• Follow up on specific discussions and execution wherever assigned to ensure proper incorporation of regulatory compliance requirements and related risk
• Support activities to implement Hercules Offshore strategy and scope for internal regulatory compliance self‑assessment, inspections, and audits to prevent project schedule delays, interdictions and fines
• Track, manage, and ensure proper closure and documentation of regulatory‑related action items.
• Perform and/or guide inspections and audits of Hercules Offshore facilities to assess and ensure proper compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements
• Organize and coordinate internal preparations for regulatory audits
• Flag to the Regulatory and Institutional Affairs Manager always when a potential critical non-conformance is identified or delays in regulatory compliance may delay schedules or not follow the original budgets
• Support all other regulatory-related activities when required

Requirements

Education

Engineering degree

Experience

• Experience with regulatory requirements applied to offshore platforms.
• Experience fulfilling requirements for ANP shipyard audits.
• Experience responding to ANP conditions to operate
• Knowledge of Class, Flag, and Navy requirements

Knowledge

• Good understanding and knowledge of Offshore systems
• Familiar with engineering/industry standards such as API, ASME, ASTM, NACE etc
• Advanced English