ES NERC Senior Consultant - Operations & Planning

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Position Summary The Energy Supply (ES) NERC Senior Consultant – Operations & Planning is responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction, and project management for regulatory compliance programs impacting the Energy Supply organization. This role serves as a key compliance liaison and advisor on NERC Reliability Standards, federal and state regulatory requirements, and internal compliance obligations. The position partners across Energy Supply and corporate functions to ensure effective compliance governance, implementation of regulatory requirements, continuous process improvement, and audit readiness.

The Senior Consultant will lead compliance initiatives, coordinate regulatory program implementation, support standards development activities, and drive integration of compliance requirements into business operations. This position plays a critical role in maintaining Energy Supply's culture of compliance while supporting operational excellence and reliability objectives.

Essential Responsibilities-Direction of the overall Energy Supply Compliance Plan. This will include all federal, state, applicable regulatory bodies (e.g. NERC, WECC, MISO, SPP etc.) and contractual compliance filing and data responsibilities for Energy Supply. This will entail project direction responsibility to establish and implement the plan across the organization.

-Development and maintenance of policies and procedures to facilitate compliance with applicable requirements. Review and maintenance of required documentation and supporting materials. Oversight of internal processes to ensure compliance and associated reporting.

-Direction of the NERC reliability standards program and coordination of the overall audit process for the regulators for Energy Supply. This effort will entail some project direction to establish and implement the updated NERC policies process across the organization.

-Coordination of Energy Supply positions on standards development process at NERC and RTOs. Liaison to other internal business units and external work groups.

-Key liaison with the Compliance Governance process as it relates to overall company compliance standard implementation (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley).

-Other duties as necessary including:

Compliance Control Standard and Roadmap reviews

Processing Potential Non-Compliance New Standard Implementation New Facility Compliance Project Management Internal Controls Audit ResponsibilitiesNERC Alerts and Data Requests Training Industry  Participation Continuous Improvement Projects

Minimum Requirements Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Business Administration…