NERC Standards Lead - Audit Readiness & Compliance

American Electric Power; North Carolina; On-site; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power is seeking a compliance professional to help ensure audit readiness and alignment with NERC Standards across business units. You will collaborate with BU compliance teams, tailor support by maturity level, and act as the primary ENRA compliance advisor for assigned standards.

The role involves incident investigations, mitigation planning, standard implementations, and evidence collection to support regulator reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Associate degree as described above with relevant work experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in electric utility or similarly regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Identify root cause and establish facts of incident.
• Identify impact and risk; draft language for regulator review.
• Develop mitigation activities with SMEs; draft regulator language; establish milestones and track progress.
• Create and execute implementation plans for new/revised standards to ensure readiness before effective date.
• Support BU compliance teams to review or develop compliance narratives.
• Assess BU processes against compliance requirements; identify failure points and potential controls.
• Define evidence of compliance; support RFIs and responses; collect SME inputs.
• Execute additional tasks including creating presentations, delivering training, and supporting audits.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, communications, computer science, business, or related field

Associate degree in one of the aforementioned fields and two years of relevant work experience

Job description

American Electric Power is seeking a compliance professional to help ensure audit readiness and alignment with NERC Standards across business units. You will collaborate with BU compliance teams, tailor support by maturity level, and act as the primary ENRA compliance advisor for assigned standards.

The role involves incident investigations, mitigation planning, standard implementations, and evidence collection to support regulator reviews.