Regulatory Specialist
Houston, Texas, United States
Competitive
Sector:
Posted: 6/2/2026
Ref: BH-337034
Location: North Slope
Schedule: 14/14 Rotation
Title: Regulatory Specialist
Key Accountabilities
• Provides regulatory planning, permitting and compliance support.
• Participates in team project execution to ensure that all tasks related to environmental review/permitting at the local, state, and federal levels are integrated into current project planning efforts, implemented, secured and in compliance.
• Ensures compliance with internal environmental and regulatory procedures (compliance assurance, operations excellence).
• Develops environmental contracting, regulatory, and permitting strategies.
• Maintains and enhance federal, state, and local agency relationships with specific emphasis on environmental review, permitting processes, environmental stewardship, surface management, as well as land access.
• Coordinates the collection of and analyzing regulatory metrics.
Required and Preferred Skills and Experience
• Senior level, typically 7 years of experience.
• Understands advanced aspects of discipline and is viewed as an expert in each field.
• Applies broad range of competencies to develop solutions to complex problems.
• Influences others to achieve objectives.
• Often provides specialized/technical/functional guidance to others within department and/or business asset.
• Self-motivated.
• Technical writing skills.
• Attention to detail
• Be familiar with local, state, and federal spill reporting requirements.
• Be familiar with local state tundra disturbance reporting requirements.
• Be familiar with local state water withdraws exceedance reporting requirements.
• Be able to oversee local subsistence representatives’ activities and deal with their concerns.
• Represent Construction Group to other groups, local/state/federal agencies, and Non-Government Organizations.
• Experience with construction projects (ice roads and pads, pipeline, facility installation)
• Be able to cooperatively interface with other company Field Environmental Coordinators, local/state/federal compliance employees,
• Track and comply with numerous permit stipulations and keep all appropriate employees apprised of compliance status.
• Provide training to contract personnel as needed.
• NSTC w/H2S.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Be familiar with state and federal waste regulations and management requirements
• Experience with permitting process for state and federal agencies and implementing those conditions for field compliance
• General environmental compliance activities (spill & tundra damage reporting, waste management, etc.)
Preferred:
• Previous North Slope experience
• Be familiar with procedures, assets, and compliance
• Bachelor's Degree (preferred in Science/ Environmental Studies).
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
Schedule: 14/14 Rotation
Title: Regulatory Specialist
Key Accountabilities
• Provides regulatory planning, permitting and compliance support.
• Participates in team project execution to ensure that all tasks related to environmental review/permitting at the local, state, and federal levels are integrated into current project planning efforts, implemented, secured and in compliance.
• Ensures compliance with internal environmental and regulatory procedures (compliance assurance, operations excellence).
• Develops environmental contracting, regulatory, and permitting strategies.
• Maintains and enhance federal, state, and local agency relationships with specific emphasis on environmental review, permitting processes, environmental stewardship, surface management, as well as land access.
• Coordinates the collection of and analyzing regulatory metrics.
Required and Preferred Skills and Experience
• Senior level, typically 7 years of experience.
• Understands advanced aspects of discipline and is viewed as an expert in each field.
• Applies broad range of competencies to develop solutions to complex problems.
• Influences others to achieve objectives.
• Often provides specialized/technical/functional guidance to others within department and/or business asset.
• Self-motivated.
• Technical writing skills.
• Attention to detail
• Be familiar with local, state, and federal spill reporting requirements.
• Be familiar with local state tundra disturbance reporting requirements.
• Be familiar with local state water withdraws exceedance reporting requirements.
• Be able to oversee local subsistence representatives’ activities and deal with their concerns.
• Represent Construction Group to other groups, local/state/federal agencies, and Non-Government Organizations.
• Experience with construction projects (ice roads and pads, pipeline, facility installation)
• Be able to cooperatively interface with other company Field Environmental Coordinators, local/state/federal compliance employees,
• Track and comply with numerous permit stipulations and keep all appropriate employees apprised of compliance status.
• Provide training to contract personnel as needed.
• NSTC w/H2S.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Be familiar with state and federal waste regulations and management requirements
• Experience with permitting process for state and federal agencies and implementing those conditions for field compliance
• General environmental compliance activities (spill & tundra damage reporting, waste management, etc.)
Preferred:
• Previous North Slope experience
• Be familiar with procedures, assets, and compliance
• Bachelor's Degree (preferred in Science/ Environmental Studies).
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
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