Regulatory & Environmental Director

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Regulatory & Environmental Director

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** Location**  **:*
* United States, The Woodlands, Texas

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** Job skills
** HSE

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** Type
* * Permanent

** Job
** 168377

** Salary**  $ 140000

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Shardae Ryu

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** Regulatory & Environmental Director*
* We currently seek a high-caliber  
** Regulatory & Environmental Director
** for a direct hire basis within our client's team of experienced professionals in The Woodlands, Texas.

At  
** TRS Staffing Solutions** , we connect top talent with leading organizations across the globe.  
** Our client
** is an award‑winning, multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm providing services in civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, corrosion control, and energy engineering. Established in 1979, the firm is recognized for delivering practical, high‑quality solutions across commercial, industrial, institutional, and public sector projects. With offices throughout the United States, our client emphasizes collaboration, technical excellence, and customized engineering solutions tailored to each project's unique requirements.

** Company Overview:*
* Our client's core assets provide services for customers in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado, and the Powder River Basin in Northeast Wyoming. Additional assets and investments are located in South Texas, Utah, and Southwest Wyoming.

They're engaged in the business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing and transporting condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil; and gathering, transporting, recycling, treating and disposing of produced water for our customers. In their capacity as a natural gas processor, they also buy and sell natural gas, NGLs, and condensate on their behalf and their customers under certain gas processing contracts.

** Job Overview:*
* The Director, Regulatory & Environmental provides senior-level leadership over a high-performing, multi-function team responsible for pipeline safety, regulatory, and environmental waste, water and remediation. This role is accountable for maturing the department to meet the demands of a growing, fast-paced organization - elevating team leadership capacity, driving proactive performance improvement, and ensuring the company remains ahead of an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

This director leads four managers and an overall team of approximately 35 professionals, with direct budget accountability for G&A spend and dotted-line oversight of operational and project expenditures, including drilling and construction permitting and remediation activities. The role requires a strategic mindset and strong business acumen, including regular participation in due diligence activities supporting acquisitions and divestitures. This position reports to the Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment and Security and is based in The Woodlands, TX.

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* Job Duties:

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* + Provides senior-level leadership across three distinct functions - Pipeline Safety, Regulatory, and Environmental - with full accountability for compliance outcomes, risk management, costs, and timelines

+ Actively develops and elevates four direct-report managers, building both technical depth and leadership capability to enable a high-performing, self-sufficient organization that allows the Director to operate at a strategic level

+ Establishes and continuously improves processes, systems, and standards that mature the function from individual-dependent outcomes to system-driven outcomes and that raise the performance bar across the team and in the field

+ Influences the company's regulatory strategy, following emerging trends and rule making activity to position our clientf ahead of increasing regulatory complexity and translates that intelligence into actionable organizational direction

+ Partners cross-functionally with Operations,…