Manager - Gas Compliance

Company: Connecticut Natural Gas an Avangrid Company

Department: Gas Operations

Job Title: Manager - Gas Compliance

Location: East Hartford CT, Orange CT

Work Model: Office

The salary range for this position is dependent upon experience, ranging from $125,766.40 to $157,208.00.

Job Summary

The Manager of Gas Compliance is responsible for ensuring compliance across Operations, Engineering, Design, and Delivery functions within the CT and MA Avangrid Gas Companies. This role involves close collaboration with business units and serves as the primary contact for Regulatory Agencies, bridging internal communication with Regulatory, Legal, and Compliance staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Assign and coordinate timely and accurate responses to regulatory requests.

• Establish communication channels with stakeholders, including Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance staff.

• Develop and deploy proactive self-assessments to identify compliance risks.

• Report and advise on proposed changes to Federal or State regulations.

• Act as liaison during regulatory audits, field visits, and inspections.

• Lead regular proactive meetings with Regulatory Agencies.

• Coordinate updates and reporting to leadership on potential impacts to the Gas Business.

• Guide the Compliance team in partnership with Gas Operations, Engineering, and Design & Delivery teams to identify risk areas, impacts, mitigation strategies, and effective approaches.

• Monitor and escalate risks to Senior Leadership.

• Oversee the definition, documentation, and assessment of control effectiveness.

• Identify new and changed compliance obligations, evaluate their impact, and implement necessary changes.

• Participate in incident investigations in partnership with business, Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance staff.

• Follow up on corrective action plans from the Enhanced QA/QC department.

• Establish reports to provide updates to leadership.

• Quantify potential risks and provide recommendations for improvements through analysis of technical, operational, and financial data.

• Implement an information governance program that aligns with the organization’s risk management strategy.

• Utilize regulatory compliance and data analytics tools/software to enhance performance and reporting.

Required Qualifications

• Skills and Requirements

  • Ability to lead teams and work in a team environment

  • Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations

  • Ability to assist and develop employees.

  • Ability to work in cross functional environmental

  • Understanding of Natural Gas Industry

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Public presentation skills and ability to summarize concepts presented accordingly

  • Results oriented

• Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years total professional experience or Associate’s degree and 10+ years total experience

  • Experience with reporting and tracking deadlines when working across different departments

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Mobility Information

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions.  This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee’s management.

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