Infrastructure Project Manager - Only W2

CBTS; Hammond (IN); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CBTS in Hammond, IN seeks a Compliance Program Manager to lead regulatory readiness and commissioning for a new Control Center. You will coordinate CIP/NERC 693 activities across Cyber, OT, Physical Security, and Facilities teams, ensuring evidence and controls are properly developed and maintained.

You will drive certification, testing, and turnover activities, manage risks and timelines, and partner with stakeholders to ensure regulatory requirements are addressed before go-live and audits.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex compliance or infrastructure projects involving multiple business functions.
• Knowledge of regulatory standards and audits is essential.
• Strong ability to plan, track milestones, and report to leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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 BES Cyber Systems, ESP, PSP, EACMS, PACS, and 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 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.

Skills

Project management

Regulatory compliance

NERC CIP

NERC 693

OT cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Risk management

Executive reporting

Job description

Location: Hammond, IN 46320 - Hybrid Onsite

Pay Rate: $55-65/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C

Qualifications:

Complete and clear Personnel Risk Assessment & Completion of NERC CIP training modules.

Program and Project Management

• 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
• 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.