Regulatory Advisor, Application and Condition Compliance, Pacific Link (Contract)

Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.  

As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system. 

With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

Location: Calgary, AB                            

Department: Pacific Link     

Reports to: Director, Regulatory 

Worker Type: Contract 

Schedule Type: Full-time 

Work Setting: In-office       

Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, motivated, and values-driven individual to join our dynamic team as a Regulatory Advisor, Application and Condition Compliance, Pacific Link (Contract). In this position, you will play a key role in supporting the implementation and ongoing administration of regulatory conditions, commitments, and approval requirements for the Pacific Link Project, helping ensure regulatory obligations are translated into clear actions, accountabilities, evidence requirements, and completion criteria across project functions. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in regulatory compliance management, condition and commitment tracking, compliance risk assessment, regulatory reporting, and cross-functional coordination within complex project environments. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with multidisciplinary teams to support the successful delivery of a major energy infrastructure project while helping maintain timely, transparent, and defensible regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory Conditions and Commitments

• Create and maintain an integrated register of regulatory conditions, commitments and related compliance obligations.
• Interpret regulatory decisions, approvals, orders, permits and correspondence to identify specific actions, accountable owners, evidence requirements and completion timelines.
• Translate regulatory obligations into compliance tasks and communicate requirements to responsible project functions.
• Confirm that condition owners understand applicable requirements, dependencies, submission dates and completion criteria.
• Monitor condition status from assignment through implementation, evidence collection, submission and regulatory close-out.

Compliance Planning and Integration

• Integrate regulatory conditions and commitments into project schedules, work plans, stage-gate requirements and execution-readiness activities.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Environment, Indigenous Relations, Land, Construction, Project Controls, Legal and other functions to align compliance activities with project milestones.
• Identify condition dependencies, sequencing requirements and potential conflicts that may affect design, procurement, construction, commissioning or operational readiness.
• Support the development and maintenance of compliance plans, procedures, workflows, templates and accountability matrices.
• Participate in project planning, readiness and assurance reviews to confirm that applicable regulatory requirements have been addressed before work proceeds.

Evidence and Regulatory Record Management

• Contribute to application drafting efforts by working with subject matter experts to align written evidence with filing requirements.
• Establish evidence requirements and acceptance criteria for regulatory conditions and commitments.
• Review supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy, consistency and alignment with the applicable regulatory obligation.
• Maintain traceable links between regulatory requirements, accountable owners, supporting evidence, submissions, correspondence and closure records.
• Coordinate the collection, quality review and retention of compliance evidence required for regulatory filings, inspections, audits and future operational reference.
• Work with Regulatory Document Control to ensure records are properly classified, filed, retained and readily retrievable.

Regulatory Reporting and Submissions

• Support regulatory filings during regulatory review, including drafting and preparation of Information Request responses and supplemental filings.
• Coordinate the preparation, review and submission of condition-compliance filings, status reports, notices, attestations and supporting documentation.
• Develop reporting calendars and submission schedules aligned with regulatory deadlines and project milestones.
• Compile multidisciplinary inputs and confirm that submissions are complete, consistent, evidence-based and appropriately reviewed.
• Track regulator responses, requests for information, follow-up actions and additional evidence requirements.
• Maintain current compliance dashboards, status summaries and reporting materials for project leadership and governance forums.

Assurance, Risk and Issue Management

• Monitor compliance performance and identify overdue actions, insufficient evidence, unclear ownership and potential non-compliance.
• Conduct periodic reviews of condition status, evidence quality and completion readiness.
• Escalate material compliance risks, missed milestones, disputed interpretations and unresolved ownership issues with clear supporting information.
• Coordinate corrective actions and monitor their completion where compliance gaps or control weaknesses are identified.
• Support preparation for regulator inspections, audits, compliance-verification activities and formal information requests.
• Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement of the project regulatory compliance processes.

Regulator and Cross-Functional Coordination

• Support engagement with the Canada Energy Regulator and other applicable authorities regarding condition interpretation, compliance submissions, information requests and closure requirements.
• Coordinate regulatory responses with technical, environmental, legal and project subject-matter experts.
• Maintain clear records of regulatory discussions, interpretations, decisions and resulting project actions.
• Promote consistent understanding and application of regulatory obligations across project teams, consultants and contractors.
• Provide practical advice to project teams on condition-compliance requirements, evidence expectations and regulatory readiness.

Qualifications and Experience

• Post-secondary education in Environmental Science, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Natural Resources, Law, Public Policy or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in regulatory compliance, regulatory affairs, environmental compliance or major-project delivery.
• Experience supporting pipeline, energy, utilities, infrastructure or other federally or provincially regulated projects is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple regulatory deadlines and changing project priorities in a fast-paced major-project environment.
• Working knowledge of regulatory assurance, inspection, audit, corrective-action and records-management practices.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and administering regulatory conditions, commitments, approvals or permit requirements.
• Experience maintaining complex compliance registers, tracking obligations and coordinating evidence-based regulatory submissions.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating inputs across technical and non-technical functions.
• Experience with Canada Energy Regulator requirements and major pipeline project compliance is considered an asset.

Working Conditions

• Willingness and ability to travel as required.
• May be required to support regulatory submissions, inspections, audits or compliance matters outside regular business hours.

We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last

Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take.  Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.

A Rewarding Opportunity

We offer:

• Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
• An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
• Competitive compensation;
• A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
• Meaningful work that makes a difference;
• An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.

We value:

• The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
• Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
• The commitment and resilience of our people;
• Collaboration and achieving success together. 

In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.

In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).

In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.

Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.

Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)

Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility.  The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day.  We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.