Description
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance
Ur-Energy | Casper, Wyoming | Full-time
About Ur-Energy
Ur-Energy is the largest and fastest-growing ISR uranium mining company in the United States. It owns and operates the Lost Creek ISR uranium facility in south-central Wyoming, and the Shirley Basin ISR operation in central Wyoming. We're helping secure a domestic supply of nuclear fuel, and we're looking for a regulatory leader to help us grow.
The Role
We're hiring a Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance to lead our permitting strategy, our regulatory affairs function, and our reclamation programs across exploration, development, and operations. You'll report to the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. In this role you'll secure, maintain, and defend the federal, state, and local licenses we need to operate. You'll also oversee groundwater restoration, decommissioning, and land reclamation. Your work will keep project timelines on track, reduce long-term environmental liability, and protect our license to operate.
What You'll Do
- Help develop and carry out multi-year permitting and licensing roadmaps for ISR and conventional uranium operations, aligned with corporate growth and capital plans
- Prepare and submit permit applications, environmental impact assessments, and technical reports to state and federal agencies
- Own the environmental and permitting basis (assumptions, data, analyses, and mitigation commitments) and keep it consistent across all submittals
- Make sure permitting products are complete, defensible, and traceable to engineering and site characterization data
- Track proposed federal and state rules and policies affecting uranium recovery and the nuclear fuel supply chain, and draft formal comments on them
- Lead agency engagement strategy and support senior leadership in high-visibility regulatory meetings
- Lead long-term reclamation and decommissioning plans, including groundwater restoration
- Advise executive leadership on regulatory risk, permitting schedules, reclamation liability, and policy changes
- Work with Geology, Engineering, Health Physics, Operations, and Legal to keep operations aligned with license conditions
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressive experience in environmental or nuclear regulatory affairs, with significant experience in uranium recovery, mining, or the nuclear fuel cycle
- Direct experience with NRC licensing and Agreement State programs, including a working knowledge of the Atomic Energy Act
- Experience with EPA Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class III permitting and aquifer exemptions
- A track record of leading multi-year permitting programs for capital-intensive projects, including budget and staff oversight
- Experience representing an organization with regulators, legislators, and industry associations
- Strong writing and presentation skills, including the ability to explain technical material to non-technical audiences
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-changing environment
Preferred
- Advanced degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related discipline
- Uranium industry experience
- Permitting experience with both ISR and conventional uranium mining and milling
Work Environment
This role includes office work and site visits. Field conditions include outdoor weather and moving equipment, and occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs.
Ur-Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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