Senior Compliance & Risk Consultant - Location Flexible

About the role

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering--including electrical standards and process safety, electrical design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning--are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our team is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers. The Market and Federal Compliance team is part of the Compliance Excellence department within Electric Engineering Compliance, where our vision is that together we create a compliance culture in Electric Engineering and Operations that supports and exceeds safety, reliability, customer, and regulator expectations. The Market and Federal Compliance team provides functional area compliance oversight, support and monitoring for processes, procedures and controls intended to ensure compliance with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regulatory requirements, standards, tariffs, and agreements. These compliance areas include: FERC Wholesale Distribution Tariff (WDT) FERC Transmission Owner Tariff (TO) FERC T-Line Licensing (T-Line) California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) CAISO Transmission Control Agreement (TCA) and related CAISO Business Process Manuals and CAISO Maintenance Procedures CAISO Annual Maintenance Review (AMR) Guidance Document ISO 55001

Responsibilities

The Electric Senior Compliance and Risk Consultant serves as a trusted advisor to engineering, planning, operations, and interconnection organizations by ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, tariffs, policies, and internal controls. This role works closely with technical subject matter experts involved in transmission and wholesale interconnection projects to understand engineering studies, system impacts, project modifications, and operational decisions, and translates those activities into compliance requirements, risk assessments, monitoring activities, and corrective actions. Finally, the Electric Senior Compliance and Risk Consultant will serve as a subject matter expert and often first point of contact for questions about compliance, non-compliance, remediation, and risk mitigation. Provides expertise to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding development, implementation, and monitoring of controls and mitigation plans. Supports company response to regulatory data requests, investigations, audits, and other inquiries. Reviews changes to requirements/standards to company guidance documents. Reviews technical regulatory tariffs and provides interpretation to Functional Areas. Evaluate utility energy service activities with Functional Areas including engineering, operations, service planning, contract management, and regulatory compliance. Supports root cause analysis exercises and investigations. May participate in risk management forums at the enterprise level.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 5 years of relevant experience
• Desired qualifications: Engineering background, work focus on electrical or utility
• 2 years' experience managing compliance/risk programs or controls
• Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP)
• Cert