Associate, Mid, or Senior NERC Compliance Specialist
About the position
Dominion Energy is seeking a NERC Compliance Specialist to assist with the coordination, administration, and support of the company's NERC compliance efforts, with a focus on NERC CIP and Cyber Security standards. This role involves assessing risks, recommending strategies, and ensuring continuous audit readiness. The position offers a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking).
Responsibilities
- Confer with management regularly and recommend specific actions on various NERC compliance matters.
- Assess, identify and prioritize NERC compliance risks based on the federal, national and regional requirements.
- Recommend content and implementation strategies for Dominion Energy compliance program initiatives.
- Act as source of best practice information and keep abreast of trends and issues to design, implement, communicate, and administer NERC compliance programs.
- Provide honest, candid, and timely responses to appropriate Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and responsible management.
- Assist with an ongoing internal self-audit process to insure continuous audit readiness by the business area.
- Assist with Dominion Energy's compliance audit preparations, schedules and logistics within the business area upon notification of an official compliance audit from regulatory and reliability entities (FERC, NERC, REs).
- Develop and administer ongoing training programs to ensure successful implementation and advocacy of a NERC compliance culture within Dominion Energy.
- Interface directly with regulatory and reliability agencies (i.e. FERC, NERC, REs, etc.) on issues pertaining to reliability standards and compliance enforcement.
- Partner with compliance attorneys and other Dominion Energy registered entities to minimize legal and regulatory compliance risks.
- Prepare and present periodic reports to executives.
- Coordinate, schedule and implement an ongoing internal self-audit process to ensure continuous audit readiness by the business area.
- Execute Dominion Energy's compliance audit preparations, schedules and logistics within the business area upon notification of an official compliance audit from regulatory and reliability entities (FERC, NERC, REs).
- Responsible for successfully leading complex special projects, as assigned.
- Assisting with Regional Entity audit preparation activities and participating in audits/spot-checks
- Coordinating compliance related submittals including self-reports, mitigation plans, NERC Alert responses, and other data requests
- Analyzing, updating, and developing compliance documents and procedures
- Leveraging technical compliance expertise to support NERC stakeholders within the company
- Assisting with administration of the ERO compliance program
- Developing compliance tracking tools and training
- Identifying, developing, and implementing internal controls and human performance tools
Requirements
- 0-2 years of directly related experience (for Associate NERC Compliance Specialist)
- 2+ years of directly related experience (for NERC Compliance Specialist)
- 5-6+ years of directly related experience (for Senior NERC Compliance Specialist)
- Excellent leadership and project management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, written communication and presentation skills (including public speaking).
- Ability to research and understand customer issues.
- Respectful assertiveness, to ensure compliance requirements are met by others, while considering the spirit and letter of standards.
- Demonstrated consensus-building and team-building skills.
- Ability to be diplomatic and persuasive.
- Demonstrates ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust and confidence.
- Exceptional organization and planning skills.
- Independent decision-making expertise.
- Complete understanding of regulations and policies pertaining to the NERC Compliance Program and the ability to independently implement them in the Business Area.
- Clear understanding of the company's organizational structure.
- Ability to analyze information and make sound decisions.
- Compliance and/or Business Area Experience required
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering
- Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners
- vacation
- retirement plans including 401k contributions and matches
- paid holidays
- tuition reimbursement
- bonus eligibility
- sick leave
- disability insurance
