Electric NERC Compliance Consultant, Expert

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.

The Electric NERC Compliance Consultant, Expert core function is to support/monitor the compliance and/or risk management framework & tools that enable the organization and employees to conduct business in compliance with NERC applicable standards, laws & regulations, and/or to identify, manage, and mitigate operational risk.

The Electric NERC Compliance Consultant, expert will partner with Electric Engineering, Asset management and Planning, and Electric Operations business units and the Enterprise NERC Compliance Office to guide mitigation planning, shaping risk-based decisions, aligning cross-functional partners, and influencing policy and regulatory strategy across WECC, FERC and CAISO.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E's service territory and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days/week.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

Although we estimate the successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related tothese factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $

Bay Area Maximum: $

California Minimum: $

California Maximum: $

• Provides expertise to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding development, implementation, and monitoring of controls and mitigation plans.
• May lead company response to regulatory data requests, investigations, audits, and other inquiries.
• Regularly updates leadership on changes to requirements/standards, metrics, program effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead root cause analysis exercises.
• May participate in risk management forums at the enterprise level.
• May act as team lead but does not have any direct reports.

• Supports ongoing mitigation plans filed with the Regional Entity (Western Electric Coordinating Council [WECC]); partners with Electric Engineering business units on the development of mitigation plans; develops compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate.
• Partners with controls verification team on development and implementation of test plans, incorporating any findings into improvements in NERC compliance.
• Supports annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation; supports development of compliance narratives and RSAW documentation.
• Supports investigations into compliance issues with NERC--with a focus on O&P standard family; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
• Identifies opportunities for new internal controls; helps build additional internal controls.
• Supports WECC/FERC audits;…