NERC Compliance Specialist-Senior

Job Posting End Date 08-29-2026

Assist in ensuring compliance for Transmission Operations regarding the NERC reliability standards as applied by all Regional Reliability Organizations (RROs); collaborating with Transmission, Generation, Commercial Operations, and Corporate in compliance matters; interfacing with these business units in the standards development/review process. Develop standards, ensuring 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.

• Validate report data.
• 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.

• NERC Compliance Specialist SG7
  
  Education:
  
  Associate’s degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field, or High School Diploma / GED and two (3) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology.
• NERC Compliance Specialist SG7
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum of three (3) 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 two (5) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology.
• NERC Compliance Specialist Senior SG8
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum of six (5) years of experience in addition to any experience noted above.
• Physical demand level:
  Sedentary.
• 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.

This role sits on site in New Albany, Ohio.

• NERC Compliance Specialist SG7 ($87,633.00-$)
• NERC Compliance Specialist Senior SG8 $ 98,993.00-$
• Compensation Data Compensation Grade: SP20-007 Compensation Range: $87,633.00 - $
• In addition to competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.

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