NERC CIP Compliance Program Lead for Control Center

ApTask Global Workforce; Merrillville (IN); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

ApTask Global Workforce (AGW) seeks a Compliance Program Manager for a Hybrid role with a Major Utility in Merrillville, IN. The contract position focuses on NERC CIP and NERC 693 regulatory readiness, control center certification, and BES asset onboarding.

The role coordinates between project stakeholders and compliance SMEs to ensure regulatory requirements are addressed, tested, and documented before go-live, turn-over, and audits, driving successful commissioning and ongoing compliance

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.
• Experience supporting Control Center construction, migration, certification, or operational readiness initiatives.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity and utility operational environments.
• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into actionable project deliverables and controls.
• Strong documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

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 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.

Skills

Project management

NERC CIP

NERC 693

OT cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Executive reporting

PMP certification

Tools

Archer

Job description

ApTask Global Workforce (AGW) seeks a Compliance Program Manager for a Hybrid role with a Major Utility in Merrillville, IN. The contract position focuses on NERC CIP and NERC 693 regulatory readiness, control center certification, and BES asset onboarding.

The role coordinates between project stakeholders and compliance SMEs to ensure regulatory requirements are addressed, tested, and documented before go-live, turn-over, and audits, driving successful commissioning and ongoing compliance