S&E Regulatory and Compliance Manager

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

June 1, 2026

Business Unit:

Upstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The S&E Regulatory and Compliance Manager plays a pivotal leadership role in shaping and overseeing Shell Brasil’s regulatory strategy across upstream operations. This position is critical to ensuring compliance across an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, while proactively identifying risks, influencing external frameworks, and enabling business delivery.

Accountabilities:

Regulatory Strategy & Governance

• Define and drive Shell Brasil’s regulatory compliance strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate standards and Brazilian requirements.

• Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on regulatory trends and emerging risks (e.g., GHG regulation, CO₂ emissions, well abandonment, produced water discharge).

• Strengthen Shell’s positioning as a trusted and proactive industry player in Brazil.

Regulatory Compliance & Assurance

• Oversee compliance with key regulatory frameworks including:

  • ANP (including SGSO)

  • IBAMA environmental requirements

  • CNEN

  • Ministry of Labor (NRs, eSocial)

  • Climate and GHG-related regulations

• Lead regulatory assurance activities, including:

  • Audit planning and coordination (internal and external)

  • Integration of lessons learned

  • Continuous improvement of compliance systems

• Ensure robust governance of KPIs and reporting frameworks.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and develop a high-performing regulatory and compliance team

• Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Manage multidisciplinary interfaces across S&E, Legal, Operations, Projects, and external partners.

Stakeholder Engagement & External Representation

• Act as the primary interface with key regulators and stakeholders:

  • ANP, CNEN, IBAMA, Ministry of Labor

• Represent Shell in regulatory forums, industry associations, and working groups, contributing to the development of new standards and regulatory instruments.

• Build and maintain strong relationships to support Shell’s societal license to operate.

Regulatory Risk Management & Market Intelligence

• Monitor and assess emerging regulatory risks and opportunities, including:

  • Thematic audits

  • Licensing constraints and delays

  • Regulatory changes impacting production continuity

• Conduct regulatory intelligence and benchmarking against industry peers.

• Support compliance strategies across all upstream portfolios, including new business opportunities.

Business Integration

• Ensure effective integration of regulatory requirements into:

  • Operated and non-operated assets

  • Exploration activities

  • New developments and projects

• Support decision-making through clear, risk-based regulatory insights.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Law, International Relations, or related fields

• 10+ years of experience in regulatory affairs, compliance, or operations within oil & gas

• Proven experience with ANP/SGSO audits and regulatory frameworks in Brazil

• Strong understanding of:

  • Brazilian regulatory landscape (ANP, IBAMA, CNEN, Ministry of Labor)

  • Climate and GHG governance frameworks

• Demonstrated experience in leading multidisciplinary teams

• Strong strategic thinking and risk assessment capability

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including with regulators

• Ability to operate at senior leadership level, providing clear and actionable insights

• High level of accountability, resilience, and decision-making under complexity

• Strong communication skills across diverse cultural and organizational contexts

• Portuguese & English (Fluent)

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shell’s strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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