WGL - Sr. Pipeline Safety & Regulatory Compliance Advisor

Job Description

As a Senior Pipeline Safety & Compliance Advisor, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the safety, integrity, and regulatory compliance of Washington Gas’ natural gas systems. This is a highly visible, field-connected role where your work directly influences how we operate, inspect, and improve. You’ll be at the center of strengthening our quality and compliance programs—working alongside operations, leadership, and regulators to identify risks, validate performance, and drive meaningful improvements in the field.

• Represent Washington Gas during inspections, audits, and incident response with federal, state, and local regulators.
• Coordinate across business units—including construction, operations, engineering, safety, and environmental—to ensure regulatory readiness.
• Support compliance activities under 49
  
  CFR Part
  192.615, including emergency response planning, first responder engagement, public awareness initiatives, incident investigations, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support and enhance field audit and quality oversight activities through regular field engagement and observation, using findings to provide actionable feedback that improves construction and operational performance and reinforces accountability.
• Analyze safety, compliance, and audit data to identify risks, trends, and gaps, and partner with operations leadership to recommend and drive improvement actions.
• Develop and maintain reporting tools to track audit outcomes, compliance trends, and corrective actions, supporting a consistent, risk‑informed approach to field auditing and quality assurance.
• Participate in an after‑hours on‑call rotation to support emergency and regulatory response.

• 8+ years of experience in pipeline safety, utility operations, or regulatory compliance.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with 49
  
  CFR Parts
  191 & 192, including pipeline operations, construction, and incident investigation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders, build relationships with regulators and first responders, and represent the company externally.
• Proven success developing and implementing compliance, safety, or quality programs.
• Proven project management skills with the ability to prioritize, develop plans, and drive execution.
• Self‑motivated and resourceful, with a collaborative, team‑oriented approach.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills to support data analysis and reporting.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, safety, environmental science, compliance, or a related technical field.

The role offers a competitive salary range of $94,000 to $136,000 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. We also provide a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Join a safety‑first, people‑focused organization that values ownership, initiative, and practical problem‑solving—not just process.

We value diversity in our workforce and encourage United States military veterans and service members who meet the qualifications to apply.

For Canadian hires:
Alta Gas hires personnel on the basis of job‑related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/Alta Gas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life.

Alta Gas is a leading energy infrastructure company with a footprint in some of North America’s most strategic energy markets. Our strategy is simple: to leverage the strength of our assets and expertise along the energy value chain to connect customers with premier energy solutions—from the well sites of upstream producers to the doorsteps of homes and businesses, and to new markets around the world.