Project
The Woodfibre LNG Project is located approximately 7 km west-southwest of Squamish, British Columbia. It involves the construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the previous Woodfibre pulp mill site, which would have a storage capacity of 250,000 m3 and would produce approximately 2.1 million tons per year of LNG.
Woodfibre Management Ltd. is a privately held Canadian company based in Vancouver and a subsidiary of Pacific Energy Corporation Limited.
Position
The Senior Regulatory Manager is an integral part of Woodfibre LNG’s dynamic team. In this role, you will be an integral part of WLNG’s dynamic Project Team responsible for developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and supporting the team in permitting processes including the implementation of the Squamish Nation Environmental Assessment Agreement. The successful candidate will report directly to the Project Director to advance the Project through design and construction into operation post-Environmental Assessment.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful applicant will:
- Manage the stakeholder engagement and indigenous relations interface to provide technical information in support of Project permitting and regulatory affairs.
- Engage with stakeholders to articulate technical details as it relates to salient Project components and processes.
- Support achieving Project schedule milestones through a robust and technically grounded engagement strategy.
- Manage responses for all technical Information Requests from Regulators, Stakeholders, and Indigenous groups.
- Advance and execute a comprehensive framework to manage technical information related to Project permitting.
- Collaborate with team members on respective overlapping domains to ensure common objectives are established and achieved.
- Manage information exchange between key internal and external team members as it relates to Project permitting and regulatory deliverables.
- Create regulatory and permitting process synergies through collaboration with stakeholders and Indigenous Groups on technical Project details.
- Maintain accountability with internal and external team members on key deliverables to drive a performance-based culture.
- Support the development and implementation of a compliance management system to track and demonstrate compliance with the Project’s regulatory and environmental commitments and conditions.
- Develop, maintain, and meet schedules and budgets for regulatory activities.
- Support the team responding to local media, government, Indigenous and NGO groups and implementing actions towards the Company’s sustainability goals.
- Provide leadership through a personal commitment to influence overall safety behavior and a culture of environmental compliance; demonstrates compliance with company HSE policies and guidelines.
Requirements
Required Experience:
- Degree in social sciences, environmental studies, natural resource management, geography, or related field of study and over 15 years applicable experience. Suitable experience may also be considered in lieu of a degree.
- At least 12 years’ experience including work on large natural resource or infrastructure projects in Western Canada, including British Columbia, with experience managing a range of regulatory and permitting processes.
- Proven track record in obtaining approvals including permits or management plans for major projects across multiple levels of government.
- Experience conducting consultation with Indigenous Groups and demonstrated cultural agility.
- Experience embedding environmental design requirements into engineering design and construction execution plans.
- Experience with permitting processes, land / resource management and natural resource operations including working with Federal, Provincial and Municipal regulatory agencies applicable to the Project e.g., BC Oil and Gas Commission and EAO.
- Strong knowledge of Indigenous Peoples history, protocols, values, and governance and working with Indigenous Peoples in Canada, preferably BC.
Assets:
- Experience working in the oil and gas sector or in developing large marine infrastructure projects in British Columbia
- Experience in an environmental role for a project owner/operator
Additional Requirements:
- Experience working with large multi-disciplinary teams, contractors in a multicultural environment is an asset.
- Communication/interpersonal skills to be able to interact with front line worker