Electric NERC Compliance Consultant, Expert - Flexible Location

About the role

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provides expertise to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding development, implementation, and monitoring of controls and mitigation plans.
• May lead company response to regulatory data requests, investigations, audits, and other inquiries.
• Regularly updates leadership on changes to requirements/standards, metrics, program effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement.
• Leads root cause analysis exercises.
• May participate in risk management forums at the enterprise level.
• May act as team lead but does not have any direct reports.
• Supports ongoing mitigation plans filed with the Regional Entity (Western Electric Coordinating Council [WECC]); partners with Electric Engineering business units on the development of mitigation plans; develops compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate.
• Promotes and supports the development of new internal controls.
• Supports annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation; supports development of compliance narratives and RSAW documentation.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on NERC compliance and works closely with the Enterprise NERC Compliance Office to guide mitigation planning, shape risk-based decisions, align cross-functional partners, and influence policy and regulatory strategy across WECC, FERC and CAISO.
• Supports investigations into compliance issues with NERC—specifically focusing on O&P standard family; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
• Supports WECC/FERC audits; provides input into FERC/NERC policy as it pertains to development of new and/or revised NERC Reliability Standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, economics, business administration, or a job-related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Primarily office environment with extensive use of computers and numerous phone calls, conference calls, and in-person meetings.
• Travel requirements vary depending on assigned area of business.