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 18, 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. .

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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