Security & Investigations Advisor

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand, to help our customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses, and to be ready to respond during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

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We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we build an even cleaner B.C.

BC Hydro has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Security and Investigation Advisor to join our team and assist with the delivery of the enterprise-wide physical security program, consisting of such things as risk and vulnerability assessments, security operations, compliance, investigations, and security systems. The role will focus on supporting the North Coast Transmission Line (NCTL) project. The role resides in the Security and Emergency Management team reporting to the Security Services Manager.

Fundamentally, this role assists in coordinating the physical security risk for BC Hydro by providing risk-based security solutions and controls that not only protect our facilities, people, and operations, but also North America’s Bulk Electric System.

This dynamic role monitors, directs, and reports on all aspects of BC Hydro’s physical security operations including planning and response, compliance, systems, investigations, and policy / procedure adherence.

As the Security and Investigations Advisor for the northern region, you will work closely with others on the team to monitor and report on evolving security risks and adjust security plans and operations accordingly. You will conduct sensitive and confidential security and compliance-based investigations. The position will establish strong working relationships with internal business units, at all levels of the organization, with contractors, and with external law enforcement, intelligence, and partner agencies.

Familiarity with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection standards is an asset. The role requires strong communication skills to be a change agent for and promote a culture of good security and compliance.

The Security and Investigation Advisor will administer, implement, and maintain security programs, processes and procedures that reduce physical security risk, ensure Mandatory Reliability Standard compliance, and limit liability and exposure to impacts to our people, assets and operations, finances, and reputation. Candidates should demonstrate effective collaboration and leadership abilities to achieve objectives. The position involves elements of BC Hydro’s enterprise physical security plan including, but not limited to risk management, security operations including alarm monitoring and response, physical access management, compliance, working with contract security, first nations partners and investigations.

The role will be forward-thinking recommending improvement opportunities wherever possible – strong business and relationship acumen is an asset.

Your overall goal is to provide security-related expertise and strategic thinking to safeguard BC Hydro and to support the North Coast Transmission Line project.

• Conduct investigations of a highly confidential nature involving employees and/or contractors in relation to high profile physical and employee security incidents.
• Respond to high profile physical and employee security incidents, as required.
• May direct and conduct security surveys and ensure adherence to standard procedures.
• Ensures the protection of security sensitive information and plans and, where thefts are confirmed, provides evidence to support criminal complaints and civil litigation.
• Develops…