Junior Regulatory Analyst / Regulatory Analyst I

As a Junior Regulatory Analyst, you're helping organizations comply with environmental, safety, and health regulations. You might be conducting facility inspections to identify compliance gaps, reviewing permits and documentation, researching regulatory requirements that apply to operations, or working with teams to develop corrective action plans. At the junior level, you're supporting compliance programs while learning the complex regulatory landscape.

The work is part investigation, part documentation, part problem-solving. You're walking through facilities with checklists, interviewing staff about procedures, reviewing records, and identifying where practices diverge from requirements. You need to understand both the regulations and how operations actually work — theory versus practice matters when assessing compliance. Much of your time goes to report writing, tracking corrective actions, and maintaining compliance documentation.

The hardest part is navigating the complexity and being the bearer of bad news. Environmental and safety regulations are vast, constantly changing, and often unclear in how they apply to specific situations. You're telling busy operations people what they cannot do or must change, which requires diplomacy alongside technical knowledge. People who thrive here are detail-oriented and genuinely motivated by protecting workers and communities — they find satisfaction in preventing violations before they happen.