American Electric Power · 6 hours ago
NERC Compliance Specialist to Principal
New Albany, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$115K/yr - $150K/yr
3+ years expAmerican Electric Power is a dedicated energy company committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. The NERC Compliance Specialist to Principal role is responsible for ensuring compliance with NERC reliability standards, collaborating with various business units, and developing processes to track and monitor compliance.
Clean EnergyEnergyEnergy ManagementFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Perform tasks required to ensure compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) reliability standards applicable to AEP. The tasks required vary widely relative to the standards measures, as such; tasks would be assigned to make best use of the successful candidate's background. These tasks would be principally related to processes and procedures developed to comply with the applicable NERC suite of standards. This includes: Validating report data against approval lists. Generating reports to save as audit evidence. Collaborating with other AEP business units to compile and validate evidence
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
Maintain systems to track and monitor compliance with the NERC reliability standards
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, including approvals
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
Qualification
Required
Education: Associate's degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field
Or High School Diploma / GED and two (2) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology
Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of experience in addition to any experience noted above
Education: Associate's degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field
Or High School Diploma / GED and two (2) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology
Experience: Minimum of six (6) years of experience in addition to any experience noted above
Education: Associate's degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field
Or High School Diploma / GED and two (2) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology
Experience: Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in addition to any experience noted above
Physical demand level is 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
Preferred
Solid understanding of the business unit / operating company systems
Experience with SCADA systems
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
American Electric Power
American Electric Power generates, transmits, and distributes electricity, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
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William Fehrman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Charles E Zebula
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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