Assurance Specialist

Location:

Calgary, AB, CA, T2P 1G1

Requisition
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid
Department: OEMS & Assurance Dept

Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a dynamic energy transportation and midstream provider, serving customers for more than 65 years. We own pipelines that transport hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas products produced primarily in Western Canada, gathering and processing facilities, and an oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics business. Our operations along the hydrocarbon value chain allow us to offer a full spectrum of midstream and marketing services to our customers in the energy industry.

We are an organization that cares not only about results, but how those results are achieved. Our culture is grounded in the values of Safe, Trustworthy, Respectful, Collaborative, and Entrepreneurial. Pembina provides a diverse and inclusive working environment that offers employees a positive and engaging experience where they are recognized and empowered. We value safety, believing that all incidents are preventable.

Compliance with all policies, procedures, and regulations is required, and our Life Saving Rules are basic rules of operation.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s Calgary office is actively hiring for an Assurance Specialist to join the team. This position reports to the Manager, OEMS & Assurance, within the Safety Department of Pembina’s Operations division. The Assurance Specialist is a senior assurance professional responsible for the implementation, oversight, and continuous improvement of Pembina’s Assurance Program within the Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS), working closely with stakeholders across the business.

• Support Pembina’s safety culture of "Zero by Choice" and Life Saving Rules.
• Lead the implementation, oversight, and continuous improvement of assurance activities in support of Pembina’s Assurance Program.
• Shape and support the maturity journey for Assurance by developing, stewarding, and sustaining assurance standards, processes and tools to drive consistency and effectiveness across assurance activities.
• Develop risk-based annual assurance plans and schedules, defining audit scope aligned with OEMS objectives, program goals and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and coordinate the execution of assurance audits, managing resources, supervising subject matter experts and auditors, ensuring activities are executed to professional standards.
• Manage the assurance budget and steward resources effectively to support the delivery of annual assurance plans.
• Ensure assurance findings are clearly documented and corrective actions are defined, assigned, tracked and closed within governance requirements.
• Communicate assurance results, trends, and insights to relevant stakeholders and governance bodies.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to identify risk-based opportunities and drive effective corrective actions to strengthen performance.
• Participate and support an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace.

• Minimum 10+ years of experience conducting and coordinating assurance and audit activities for corporate management systems and programs, with significant internal experience.
• Extensive experience within the energy, utilities, natural resources, midstream, or transportation industries.
• Demonstrated experience conducting assurance activities across multiple regulatory environments, including CER, provincial regulators, US OSHA, PHMSA, Canadian federally regulated worksites, and IMO/Marine contexts.
• Deep expertise in management systems assurance, risk-based auditing and corrective action management.
• Relevant auditor certifications strongly preferred, such as ISO Lead Auditor, CHSMSA, Environmental Management Systems Lead Auditor, CIA, or CRMA.
• Excellent analytical, critical‑thinking, and problem‑solving skills with the ability to manage complex assurance issues and generate practical, risk‑based solutions.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to plan, coordinate, and track multiple assurance activities, manage competing priorities, and deliver work on schedule.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of…