Cybersecurity Project Manager

AppleOne Employment Services; Hammond (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services is seeking a Compliance Program Manager to support NIPSCO regulatory compliance and operational readiness for a new Control Center, including certification, commissioning, and asset onboarding.

You will coordinate across Cybersecurity, OT, Physical Security, and Facilities to ensure regulatory requirements are addressed, documented, tested, and validated before go-live.

Qualifications

• Experience interpreting regulatory requirements and translating them into actionable deliverables and controls.
• Strong documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with NERC CIP and NERC 693 standards is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support NIPSCO's regulatory compliance and operational readiness initiatives for new Control Center certification and commissioning.
• Coordinate regulatory activities to achieve compliance readiness before live operation, turnover, and audits.
• Coordinate workstreams across Cybersecurity, OT, Physical Security, Communications & Control, Facilities, and Compliance.
• Serve as the primary coordination point between project stakeholders and compliance SMEs to ensure requirements are addressed, tested, and validated before commissioning.
• Lead NERC CIP and NERC 693 compliance activities for the new Control Center, including planning, milestones, risk management, and readiness.
• Coordinate certification and commissioning for BES Cyber Systems, ESP, PSP, EACMS, PACS, PCA.
• Ensure compliance requirements are integrated into design, build, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Develop and manage compliance readiness plans, evidence repositories, audit packages, and transition documentation.
• Facilitate compliance reviews and validation of controls for CIP-002 through CIP-013 and applicable NERC 693 Standards.

Skills

Complex compliance projects

Project planning

Priority management

Cybersecurity coordination

Education

PMP certification

Tools

Archer

Job description

• Experience managing complex compliance or infrastructure projects involving multiple business functions.
• Strong project planning, schedule management, issue management, and executive reporting capabilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across technical, operational, cybersecurity, and compliance teams.

Control Center and Asset Commissioning Experience

• Experience supporting Control Center construction, migration, certification, or operational readiness initiatives.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity and utility operational environments.

Compliance Documentation and Evidence Management

• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into actionable project deliverables and controls.
• Strong documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

NERC Compliance Expertise

• Knowledge of NERC CIP Reliability Standards and NERC 693 requirements.
• Utility transmission or electric operations experience
• PMP certification
• Archer Experience
• Experience with Critical Infrastructure Protection programs
• Experience commissioning BES Cyber Systems, substations, generation assets, transmission assets, or operational technology (OT) environments.

Responsibilities

This role will support NIPSCO's regulatory compliance and operational readiness initiatives associated with the certification and commissioning of a new Control Center, establishment of a new Physical Security Perimeter (PSP), and onboarding of new Bulk Electric System (BES) Cyber Systems and assets into production operations.

The Compliance Program Manager will coordinate all NERC CIP and NERC 693 regulatory activities required to achieve compliance readiness prior to facility go live, operational turnover, and audit scrutiny.

This includes managing compliance workstreams across various groups including but not limited to; Cybersecurity, Operational Technology, Physical Security, Communication & Control, Facilities, and Compliance teams.

The individual will serve as the primary point of coordination between project stakeholders and compliance subject matter experts to ensure all regulatory requirements are addressed, documented, tested, and validated before commissioning.

Typical responsibilities may include:

• Lead NERC CIP and NERC 693 compliance activities for a new Control Center implementation, including project planning, milestone tracking, risk management, and regulatory readiness.
• Coordinate certification and commissioning activities for new BES Cyber Systems, Electronic Security Perimeters (ESP), Physical Security Perimeters (PSP), Electronic Access Control and Monitoring Systems (EACMS), Physical Access Control Systems (PACS), and Protected Cyber Assets (PCA).
• Ensure compliance requirements are incorporated into design, build, testing, commissioning, and operational turnover activities.
• Develop and manage compliance readiness plans, evidence repositories, audit packages, and transition documentation.
• Facilitate compliance reviews and validation of controls associated with CIP-002 through CIP-013 and applicable NERC 693 Reliability Standards.
• Partner with stakeholders to validate implementation of required controls.
• Track and manage compliance risks, action items, deficiencies, and project dependencies.
• Ensure all required compliance evidence is developed, retained, and organized in accordance with NERC record retention requirements.
• Facilitate operational turnover and sustainment planning to ensure compliance ownership transitions successfully to ongoing operations teams.