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11-03-2025

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Job Summary

Support business units to be audit ready and improve compliance of NERC requirements across applicable functions and registrations.

Support Business Unit compliance teams. Adapt to serve BU’s depending on their compliance organizational maturity. Perform Audit Readiness directly as needed.

Be a trustworthy advisor by maintaining expertise in the NERC Standards

Act as the single point of contact, per NERC Standard, for ENRA compliance services.

Improve and lead processes. Ability to delegate tasks and facilitate execution of others. Create process improvements across ENRA teams.

Please Note: This is an onsite full-time position, in either Columbus, Roanoke, or Tulsa.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

Requires SME capability for several Audit Readiness Services. Ability to train others on Audit Readiness Services shown below.

Potential Compliance Incident Investigation

+ Identify root cause and establish facts of incident

+ Identify impact and risk

+ Draft language for regulator review

Mitigation Plan Support

+ Draft language for regulator review

+ Develop milestones, including preventive efforts and

+ Track progress of approved plan and review evidence of completion

Standard Implementation

+ Work with impacted business unit leadership to create and execute an implementation plan for new and revised standards

RSAW Development and Review

+ Support business unit compliance teams to review and/or develop narrative of compliance

Gap Analysis and Controls

+ Assess and provide feedback to compliance SMEs on the ability of BU processes to fulfill compliance requirements

+ Identify failure points relating to compliance requirements

+ Identify process improvements and/or controls as needed to reduce the risk of failure points

+ Execute the second level of controls as needed

Evidence Pull Sheet Support

+ Support BU compliance experts to define evidence of compliance

+ Support instructions to pull and review evidence on demand

RFI Response

+ Collect SME responses to regulator RFIs

What We're Looking For:

Education:

+ Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, communications, computer science, business, or other related field of study; or an Associate's degree in one of the aforementioned fields of study and two (2) years of relevant work experience;

Experience:

+ In addition to any experience required above, seven (7) years of experience in electric utility or similarly regulated industry.

Other Must Haves:

+ Expertise on a family of NERC Standards.

+ SME understanding of BES definition and NERC applicability

+ Ability to manage highest risk and/or most organizationally complex standards.

+ Understand relationship between NERC Standards, Regional Entities, and RTO's

+ Proven ability to drive consensus between business units.

+ Hands on experience with Business Unit systems and processes preferred

American Electric Power (On-Site)

$96K- $146K / Year

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Compensation Data

Compensation Grade:

SP20-009

Compensation Range:

$112,869.00-146,730.50 USD

The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) 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 of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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