Director, Regulatory Assurance

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

We are seeking qualified applicants for the position:

Director, Regulatory Assurance

Located:

Houston

Summary

General Description Duties & Responsibilities

• Development, implementation, and maintaining the Regulatory Compliance Assurance Program for LNG facility assets.  
• Serve as the subject matter expert in Regulatory areas concerning LNG export facilities; Specifically for PHMSA, FERC, and USCG requirements.   
• Leads the regulatory compliance assurance program necessary for Federal, State, and Local audits.  
• Performs internal compliance assurance activities in coordination with applicable stakeholders in preparation of routine Federal, State, and Local audits or inspections  
• Lead and participate in Federal, State, and Local Regulatory Agency site audits and inspections for LNG Projects.  
• Reviews external state and federal agency audit findings and provides recommendations to internal procedures and/or compliance manuals.  
• Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability or risks and provides reports to Supervisor and other LNG business stakeholders.  
• Lead in evaluation of Federal Register updates and facilitating the updating of processes, procedures and training to maintain compliance.   
• Work with Operations SME’s to address areas of improvement identified from field assessments and/or changes to Venture Global processes and procedures.  
• Lead in supporting the development and implementation of internal regulatory inspection and audit program.  
• Maintains working knowledge of regulatory requirements, company procedures and documents to satisfy those requirements.  
• Assists with communicating and implementing improvements to programs and documentation to ensure compliance with regulations  
• Support engineering design reviews of Implementation Plans (IP’s), IA Question sets, and Data Requests from various Regulators for compliance validation of Company Permits and Applicable Laws.    
• Support in safety related incident management issues on behalf of the Regulatory Department 
• Support review of MOC’s  for compliance validation.  
• Support in executing external regulatory reporting obligations.   
• Support Operations procedure reviews and ensuring procedure updates are maintained in accordance with applicable law.   
• Analyze Compliance data mining to determine necessary training or program modifications required for Compliance Management.  
• Support the Company’s functional groups in planning, process and control management.  
• Coordinates with LNG Project and Operations personnel, engineering and other stakeholders to share lessons learned, experiences, and knowledge to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.  

Qualifications

Required experience

• Associates degree is preferred or equivalent experience. 
• 10 years in Regulatory management or similar industry.  A minimum of 2 years of experience in LNG and Gas Transmission Compliance.  
• Must maintain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card in good standing status.
• Extensive experience managing regulatory dialogue in the US and working closely with US regulatory agencies, especially FERC and PHMSA.  
• Corporate or consulting experience in designing and implementing compliance programs preferred.  

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Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.