Why Work Here?
At ATCO, your work goes beyond identifying risks. You help strengthen how essential services are delivered every day. As a Senior Operational Auditor, you'll work closely with business leaders to evaluate operations, challenge assumptions, and drive improvements that enhance reliability, safety, and performance across our organization. This role offers broad visibility into our operations, meaningful influence on strategic initiatives, and the opportunity to contribute to a culture of continuous improvement while building your expertise alongside a collaborative and supportive team.
About the Role:
As a Senior Operational Auditor, you will lead risk-based operational audits and advisory engagements across ATCO's diverse operations. You'll evaluate operational controls, regulatory compliance, and risk management practices while providing practical recommendations that strengthen performance and support informed decision-making.
Working independently and in collaboration with business stakeholders, you will manage audits from planning through reporting, assess complex operational risks, and help shape a strong control environment across areas such as utility operations, asset integrity, maintenance and reliability, HSE, emergency preparedness, and major capital projects. This role provides the opportunity to influence operational excellence while gaining broad exposure to business strategies and initiatives across the organization.
What You Get to Do
- Lead operational audit and advisory engagements from risk assessment and planning through fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up activities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of operational controls, risk management practices, and regulatory compliance requirements across critical business functions.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen operational performance, reliability, safety, and compliance through practical, risk-based recommendations.
- Develop clear, evidence-based audit observations and communicate findings effectively to business leaders and stakeholders.
- Conduct engagements across operational areas including asset integrity, maintenance and reliability programs, HSE compliance, emergency preparedness, and major capital projects.
- Assess compliance with corporate policies and applicable regulatory requirements, including industry standards and jurisdictional regulations.
- Monitor emerging operational, regulatory, and industry risks and contribute to the development of risk-based audit plans.
- Build trusted relationships across the business while serving as a key liaison between Internal Audit and operational teams.
- Mentor and support audit team members, helping strengthen capability, consistency, and audit effectiveness.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of audit methodologies, tools, and practices that enhance the value and impact of Internal Audit.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or Science
- 5+ years of operational experience; internal audit, compliance, risk management, or regulatory experience considered an asset.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders
- Advanced understanding of risk management, internal controls, and operational governance practices
- Ability to translate complex operational and technical information into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate both immediate and long-term impacts of decisions and strategies
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
- Knowledge of utility operations, gas and electric transmission and distribution systems, and/or asset integrity frameworks is considered an asset
- P.Eng, Project Management Professional (PMP), MBA or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) are assets
What We Offer:
- A culture based on caring, integrity, agility, collaboration, and striving for excellence
- Competitive compensation
- Flex benefits
- Tuition assistance program
- Training and mentorship programs
- Charitable donation matching
We would like to thank everyone for their application; however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.
ATCO delivers inspired solutions for a better world. We are a diversified global corporation with investments in the essential services of Structures & Logistics, Utilities, Energy Infrastructure, Retail Energy, Transportation and Commercial Real Estate. Learn more about how we build communities, energize industries and deliver customer-focused solutions like no other company in the world at www.atco.com. ATCO is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Visit our website for more information.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the traditional territories and homelands on which many of our ATCO operations and facilities are located. We honour and respect the diverse history, languages, ceremonies, and culture of the Indigenous Peoples who call these areas home.
