NERC Compliance Specialist-Senior

Assist in ensuring compliance for Transmission Operations regarding the NERC reliability standards as applied by all Regional Reliability Organizations (RROs). Collaborate with Transmission, Generation, Commercial Operations, and Corporate in compliance matters and interface with these business units in the standards development/review process. Develop standards, ensure appropriate systems are in place to track and monitor compliance, perform daily tasks to monitor compliance, and perform quarterly/yearly reviews to demonstrate compliance. Works under minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Perform tasks required to ensure compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) reliability standards applicable to AEP, including Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Operations and Planning (O&P).
• Validate report data and generate reports to save as audit evidence.
• Collaborate with other AEP business units to compile and validate evidence.
• Monitor and support NERC CIP security patch management activities, including tracking patch evaluations, reviewing implementation status, validating required compliance evidence, and identifying potential compliance risks related to patch deployment timelines.
• Review and track configuration baseline change tickets to ensure changes are properly authorized, documented, tested, and incorporated into approved baseline configurations in accordance with NERC CIP change management requirements.
• Assist the Manager Transmission NERC Compliance to ensure that reliability standards, strategy, documentation, and associated evidence are aligned and consistent with AEP policy and strategy.
• Coordinate with other Transmission Organizations, Commercial Operations, Generation, and Corporate in compliance monitoring and tracking.
• Ensure that appropriate processes are in place to track and monitor newly developed standards.
• Capture appropriate evidence and confirm that others are capturing appropriate evidence to meet compliance requirements through internal controls.
• Guide others through the process of reviewing developing standards to enhance the monitoring and tracking of NERC reliability compliance standards and facilitate record keeping of evidence associated with said standards.
• Participate in periodic audits performed by the RTOs to assess AEP compliance with the full range of NERC reliability standards; assist in performing internal audits as required.

Requirements

NERC Compliance Specialist SG7

• Education: Associate’s degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field, or High School Diploma / GED and two years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology.
• Experience: Minimum of three years of experience in addition to any experience noted above.

NERC Compliance Specialist Senior SG8

• Education: Associate's degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field, or High School Diploma / GED and five years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology.
• Experience: Minimum of six years of experience in addition to any experience noted above.

• Demonstrate the highest standards of ethical behavior and support the Company's Corporate Compliance policy.
• Strong skills in communication, issue resolution, organization, and facilitation are essential.
• Solid understanding of the business unit / operating company systems is preferred.
• Experience with SCADA systems is preferred.

Benefits

AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.

Pay

• NERC Compliance Specialist SG7: $87,633.00 - $108,480.50
• NERC Compliance Specialist Senior SG8: $98,993.00 - $127,439.50

Schedule

This role sits on site in New Albany, Ohio.

Physical demand level is Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods.