Manager, NERC O&P Compliance

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The AES Clean Energy team is looking for an innovative and motivated individual to manage the O&P NERC Compliance team for AESs rapidly growing renewable energy portfolio. This position will report to Director of NERC Compliance and it provides the opportunity to support one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the U.S. while playing a pivotal role in ensuring that AES builds, operates, and maintains the portfolio to standards that exceed industry best-practice.

The ideal candidate will be an initiative-taker and can tackle multidisciplinary challenges in coordination with various AES teams and third parties. This role will support the growth of the AES O&P NERC Compliance team as the renewable portfolio continues to expand.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

The O&P Compliance manager will be responsible to

• Manage a team of NERC O&P compliance specialists who help support and ensure compliance with AES Clean Energy portfolio.
• Develop NERC specific training for NERC compliance specialists and Subject Matter Experts (SME).
• Participate in compliance risk assessment and develop risk-based compliance review schedule.
• Develop processes and workflows to ensure evidence required for compliance with the O&P standards is collected at appropriate time.
• Ensure NERC Compliance coordination is managed for all new projects before COD.
• Ensure management of change process is implemented appropriately.
• Ensure all documentation, evidence, and internal controls related to compliance with the NERC reliability standards, FERC, and other state or regional regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate, prepare, and maintain materials for audits, self-certifications, spot-checks, internal compliance assessments, self-reports, mitigation plans, Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets (RSAWs), and evidence documentation.
• Lead Self-reports, mitigation plans, and self-certification submittal process as needed.
• Contribute to internal control actions through risk assessments and lessons learned.
• Support Director of NERC Compliance to implement organization-wide strategies, priorities, and documentation to meet reliability compliance requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with industry associations, regional entities, and internal stakeholders to promote business goals and compliance with requirements.

Desired Skills and Expertise:

• Four Year Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in NERC compliance.
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience with NERC O&P standards and requirements.
• Experience in implementing and/or maintaining a NERC compliance program.
• Knowledge of renewable generation owner and operator-related standards, project life cycle of generation projects, protection systems, SCADA, inverter-based resources.
• Ability to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance.
• Strong verbal and written skills, technical and non-technical.
• Experience with O&P specific audit skills, protection systems, modeling, control center operations or related industry regulatory issues.
• Highly motivated, self-starter willing to take on new challenges.
• Good people management skills.

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