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+ Application Opening: October 27, 2025

+ Application Filing Deadline: October 31, 2025

+ Recruitment: RTF0160629-01147477

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) (https://youtu.be/inc4CF4VKFE)

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Project: WECC/NERC Programmatic Overhaul Project

Essential Functions:

1. Assists with monitoring compliance operations and reviewing official documents to ensure compliance with policy directives, regulations, laws, and contracts. Specifically with respect to contracts: Assists with drafting and editing contract Task Orders and assists with the creation of a Compliance Request for Proposal (RFP). Also assists in the compliance proposal review process ensuring that submitted proposals are responsive.

2. Directly conducts simple analyses and studies related to WECC/NERC Compliance; contract performance; operating performance; and other studies as assigned. Provides assistance in more complex studies and analyses.

3. Assist with various areas of compliance using control frameworks such as COSO, ISO 31000, or NIST’s CSF to document and ensure the efficacy of internal controls via gap analysis, identifying controls that need modification to ensure improved reliability and compliance.

4. Assists with Operations & Planning (O&P) NERC Reliability Standards Requirements Monitoring and Tracking. Utilizes HHWP’s Protection System Maintenance Summary (PSMS) to aid in PRC-005 component tracking and analysis. Also uses multiple spreadsheets to track modelling and protection system study requirements.

5. Maintains detailed operating records and is responsible for Compliance Evidence Archiving in eDOCS. Also responsible for ensuring that Reliability Standard required logs (e.g. PRC-027) have been updated and archived by the appropriate SMEs.

6. Responsible for ensuring that HHWP receives communications from NERC and WECC using the ALIGN system and uploading data, records and information into ALIGN as required. A short list of compliance items downloaded and uploaded directly into ALIGN include: self-reports, self-logging, mitigation plans, mitigation plan milestones, correspondence, responding to Requests for Information, Periodic Data Submittals (PDS), Data Requests, and generating reports as required. Also uses WECC’s Secure Evidence Locker (SEL) to upload sensitive or confidential information. Finally, also administers Compliance Team members access to ALIGN—adding and removing team member’s access as required.

7. Assists in development of analytical and predictive models; analyzes and presents data. Responsible for organizing and running two meetings: 1) Monthly NERC Compliance Status Meeting; and 2) HHWP NERC Monthly Update Meeting. Part of this responsibility includes taking notes and tracking issues raised during these meetings to completion and reminding responsible SMEs of any associated due dates and required documents.

8. Provides technical support on a wide variety of studies and projects, including: policy and procedural compliance reviews; Assists with WECC/NERC audit support and other tasks as assigned.

9. Documents HHWP’s responses for noncompliance with Reliability Standard requirements. Ensures that HHWP follows NERC/WECC violations process per NERC’s latest Rules of Procedure (ROP); NERC’s Registered Entity Self-Report and Mitigation Plan User Guide; ALIGN Self-Report and Mitigation Guide, WECC Enforcement and Mitigation; Tracks corrective action milestone deadlines and deliverables to ensure that HHWP has completed each milestone and submitted the appropriate evidence to WECC using ALIGN or the SEL.

10. Acts as HHWP’s CAISO User Access Administrator. UAAs to manage user access to CAISO applications (excluding OASIS, which is a public application). All requests for application access, removal and revocation of certificates must be submitted by HHWP's authorized UAA.

11. Acts as HHWP’s access administrator for NERC and WECC websites. All requests for application access, removal and revocation of portal access must be submitted by HHWP's authorized access administrator.

12: Class 5601 Utility Analyst performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university preferably with major course work in Law, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or other field related to the utility business.

Substitution: Qualifying experience may be substituted for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis. One year (2000 hours) of additional qualifying experience will be considered equivalent to 30 semester units/45 quarter units.

Qualifying experience includes experience in one or more of the following areas: planning, scheduling, cost estimating and resource projecting for mid to large scale projects; water supply/infrastructure management and planning; power operations planning and scheduling; analysis, interpretation and application of utility contracts and regulations in either water, power (electric and/or natural gas), telecommunications, or a wastewater/clean water program; utility market and environmental analysis and planning; power supply and transmission rates and contracts; generation, transmission or distribution planning and design; or long term utility systems planning.

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. Education verification information on verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

+ Information About the Hiring Process (https://careers.sf.gov/knowledge/process/)

+ Conviction History

+ Employee Benefits Overview  (https://careers.sf.gov/benefits/)

+ Equal Employment Opportunity (https://www.sf.gov/what-equal-employment-opportunity-and-how-file-claim)

+ Disaster Service Worker (https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers)

+ ADA Accommodation

+ Veterans Preference (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#veteranspreference)

+ Right to Work

+ Copies of Application Documents (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#copies)

+ Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from [email protected] that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

+ Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from [email protected] that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Anna Owens, at [email protected].

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.