Salary
💰 $155,761 - $202,491 per year
About the role
- Lead a strategic team responsible for identifying, tracking, and communicating emerging regulatory and reliability issues across the organization
- Ensure alignment with AEP’s positions on key industry matters and foster proactive engagement with regulatory bodies, including NERC
- Collaborate closely with internal business units, Federal Affairs, and compliance teams to influence policy development and ensure effective implementation of reliability standards
- Lead identification and tracking of emerging NERC/FERC issues and communicate impacts to all relevant Business Units
- Represent AEP at NERC to help shape and influence reliability standards and policy direction
- Secure and manage AEP representation on key industry committees and working groups
- Summarize and distribute key takeaways from industry meetings to internal stakeholders
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with Business Units, Reliability and Compliance Performance Assessment, and the Standards and Audit Support teams on standard development and implementation
- Gather and consolidate Business Unit feedback during standards commenting periods
- Monitor changes in Public Utility Commission regulations and communicate potential compliance impacts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Compliance, Risk Management, Engineering or related field)
- Minimum ten years of experience in progressively responsible positions in the utility sector or similarly regulated industry
- Proven experience in compliance, audit management, or risk assessment
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- Familiarity with industry standards and regulatory requirements
- Committed to 50% travel for this role