NERC Compliance Manager – Generation

About us: Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission and has another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $54 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

We currently have an opportunity for a Compliance Manager to support the LS Power group of Generation Assets in multiple markets nationwide. In this role, you will help develop, implement, shape, guide, and lead the fleet-wide reliability compliance program for both NERC and each assets associated RTO/ISO, with support from subject matter experts, other members of the compliance team, including the Chief Compliance Officer, and consultants as required. You will work with each asset’s operations and maintenance (O&M) team and 3 rd party NERC CIP team to document compliance policies and procedures and maintain associated evidence. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable NERC standards and RTO/ISO requirements including Generation Owner, Generation Operator, and Critical Infrastructure Protection standards for LS Power’s generation assets in ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SERC, ISONE, NYISO, WECC, CAISO and additional RTO/ISOs as the company continues to expand.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Support the development and maintenance of a corporate-wide NERC compliance program across LS Power’s Generation assets located within numerous NERC Regions.
• Oversee control of all documents related to generation compliance evidence including policies and procedures, reports, spreadsheets, work logs, and so on.
• Establish and maintain relationships with Key Stakeholders including NERC regional compliance enforcement authorities, each generation asset’s RTO/ISO, NERC compliance vendors, LS Power asset managers, plant O&M staff, and LS Power and industry peers.
• Support the company compliance program for generation assets within all NERC regions and ensure compliance with all NERC, RTO/ISO, and FERC periodic reporting requirements.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable NERC Reliability Standards, regional RTO/ISO requirements, and NERC Rules of Procedure including those related to registration, certification, and compliance.
• Support regulatory compliance documentation updates, development of evidence packages, and complete departmental reviews as needed.
• Support, guide, and oversee internal and external compliance monitoring activities to include audits, spot checks, self-certifications, gap assessments.
• Assist in the development of training materials in various aspects of the compliance program, including standards specific training, NERC Alerts, and mock audit interviews.
• Prepare filings, policies, procedures and other documentation in support of the compliance functions. Lead compliance meetings.
• Administer and maintain compliance monitoring and tracking spreadsheets, updates to ERO portal accounts and NERC Alert users, and updates to other systems as needed Develop and maintain department metrics as needed.
• Monitor development of new/updated NERC Standards and other regulatory requirements; oversee compliance readiness.
• Attend NERC regional entity and RTO/ISO meetings, conferences, and webinars as applicable.
• Oversee any self-report and violation mitigation efforts in a swift and effective manner.
• Work closely with internal and external IT/OT vendor(s) and EMS departments to ensure Cyber & CIP compliance.
• Work closely with NERC compliance vendors and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) personnel to ensure compliance.
• Assist with asset acquisition and sales activities to include due diligence, responding to and initiating requests for information (RFIs), entity registrations and related activities.

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

• Hold a Bachelor and/or Masters of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Law, or other relevant degree preferred.
• Have a minimum of 7+ years direct experience in a similar role.
• Have experience developing and/or maintaining regulatory compliance oversight program(s) to include interface with regulators and internal stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Have previous experience and/or knowledge with NERC Standards including Generation Owner, Generation Operator, and Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
• Have prior audit experiences with NERC Regional Entities.
• Have experience and/or knowledge with RTO / ISO reliability compliance obligations.
• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, organizational skills, and problem solving skills.
• Can set priorities, follow-through, and respond to changes in a dynamic environment.
• Are able to multitask and effectively manage time and meet deadlines.
• Have strong negotiation, persuasion, and listening skills.
• Are able to understand and communicate with a diverse audience across all levels of the organization.
• Have the ability to write and review reports, business correspondence, policies and procedures involving complex and technical information.
• Have strong competencies in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Outlook).
• Are able to respond to issues outside of normal working hours and flexibility to travel as required.
• Knowledge and understanding of utility business principles, and utility operations & maintenance will be an advantage.
• Ideally, you would also have…
• NERC Compliance experience and/or knowledge with ISONE, NYISO, and ERCOT.
• Cyber security knowledge and experience.