Salary
💰 $104,500 - $174,100 per year
About the role
- Manage Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) Compliance Program.
- Provide compliance expertise and consultation on FERC regulations, OATT compliance, and regional transmission efforts.
- Develop and implement strategies across multiple departments to ensure compliance with new/changing regulatory requirements.
- Maintain efficient program execution using advanced project management skills and lead teams through audits, data requests, root cause analysis and mitigation action planning.
- Interface with PSE executives regarding program health and represent PSE to regulatory enforcement agencies.
- Develop/updates process, procedure and control design and associated documentation.
- Perform routine risk assessment to guide programmatic activities and priorities.
- Collaborate with internal and cross-department staff to develop and distribute appropriate reporting of compliance health/status.
- Identify areas of potential non-compliance and facilitate remediation/correction action plans with operational business owners.
- Provide technical direction, interpretation and leadership to those responsible for complying with relevant codes and regulations.
- Prepare framework for ensuring responsible employees are trained and understand PSE’s interpretation of relevant codes and regulations.
- Prepare for and manage the compliance monitoring and audit process and actively manage relationships with regulatory compliance enforcement staff.
- Monitor and track new compliance requirements and develop processes, procedures and tools to evaluate operational impacts of new regulatory requirements.
- Lead and/or participate in process improvement initiatives to enhance current compliance processes.
- Maintain knowledge of industry developments and best practices and participate in compliance enforcement seminars, initiatives and industry groups.
- Uphold safety compliance standards and promote a culture of total safety.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, legal or related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Ten (10) years of relevant experience including three (3) years of experience with compliance programs (development, evaluation and/or audit).
- Three (3) years of experience in the utility operations or energy sector.
- Knowledge and ability to apply program management principles, practices, theories and process development methods and use of problem solving approaches to solve complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills and techniques, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strong technical and process leadership without direct authority to a wide variety of staff.
- Strong project management or related experience.