Classification: Management Band B, Excluded

Office Location: Fort St John or Victoria

Salary: $119,211 - $156,045 – Permanent Full-Time, based on a 35-hour work week.

An additional 3% Location Allowance will be added to posted salary for northern location.

About the Job

The Director, Orphan Restoration (Director) provides strategic leadership in liability management, overseeing and mitigating financial and environmental risks associated with inactive oil and gas infrastructure, insolvencies, and orphan oil and gas sites. This role leads the enhancement, delivery, and continuous improvement of the BCER’s Orphan Treatment and Closure Plan.

Leading a team of professional and technical experts, the Director ensures the organization effectively identifies, tracks, and mitigates risks associated with operator insolvency, ensuring a strategic approach to restoration and mitigation of the cumulative impacts of industrial disturbances. The Director works closely with other regulators, industry practitioners, First Nations partners, and stakeholders to develop and share best-practices, enhance policies and procedures, and ensure effective reporting and decision making.

The Director collaborates with the Finance department to ensure timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting related to liabilities.

Organization Chart

Commissioner, Chief Executive Officer

Executive Vice President, Resource Management & Stewardship

Vice President, Environmental & Subsurface Resource Management

Executive Director, Orphans & Restoration

Director, Orphan Restoration

About the BC Energy Regulator:

The BC Energy Regulator (BCER) is the Province of B.C.’s life-cycle energy resources regulator. The BCER is a Crown agency with a mandate to ensure energy resource activities are undertaken in a manner that: protects public safety and the workplace,



supports reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and the transition to low-carbon energy, conserves energy resources and fosters a sound economy and social well-being.

As a cost recoverable, values driven organization, we prioritize safety, stewardship and Indigenous interests throughout the full project lifecycle – from exploration to reclamation – and support the transition to clean energy. The BCER is committed to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, honouring the Provincial commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action. Through fostering respectful and collaborative relationships with Indigenous partners and stakeholders, the BCER delivers on Government’s priorities.

The BCER has an innovative forward-thinking workplace that demonstrates our core values. Through continuous improvement and development, the BCER is agile and responsive to the rapidly changing environment in which we operate. We are diverse and inclusive, with transparency, innovation, and integrity as foundation of our respectful culture.

What We Offer

The BCER operates under a Hybrid Office Model whereby employees work from both a home office and a designated BCER office location in order to support our mandate (eligibility may vary, depending on position).

The BCER is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on the protected grounds under the Human Rights Code. The BCER is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for the removal of barriers for qualified individuals. If you need assistance or accommodation, please let us know.

We acknowledge and respect the many First Nations, each with unique cultures, languages, legal traditions and relationships to the land and water, on whose territories the British Columbia Energy Regulator's work spans.

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