Senior Energy Regulatory Advisor

WSP Global Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. seeks a Senior Energy Regulatory Advisor to guide utilities and energy developers through the evolving regulatory landscape in the United States.

The role focuses on strategic regulatory guidance, market analysis, and client engagements across electric, gas, and renewable sectors. The position is remote, supporting clients nationwide, and requires deep energy regulatory knowledge, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple advisory projects from conception to

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in electric utility regulation or related field.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% across the United States.
• Strong knowledge of FERC regulations, NERC standards, and RTO/ISO processes.
• Experience supporting utilities, generation owners/operators, or energy regulators.
• Experience participating in ISO/RTO stakeholder processes, tariff development, market design initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on regulatory requirements, policy developments, and market design changes affecting energy infrastructure and operations.
• Develop regulatory strategies supporting generation, transmission, distribution, storage, renewables, and emerging technologies.
• Analyze wholesale electricity markets, capacity markets, and other market constructs.
• Lead client presentations, workshops, and executive briefings; mentor junior consultants.

Skills

Regulatory expertise

Policy analysis

Client relationship management

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Public Policy, Energy Systems, Business, Political Science, Law

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

This OpportunityWSP is seeking a Senior Energy Regulatory Advisor to focus on supporting utilities, generation & transmission developers, transmission owners, renewable energy companies, independent power producers, and other energy sector clients navigating the increasingly complex regulatory environment. Successful candidates will be responsible for providing strategic regulatory guidance and market expertise to clients across the electric power, natural gas, renewable energy, and energy infrastructure sectors. This role serves as a trusted advisor on federal, regional, state, and local regulatory matters, helping clients navigate market rules, compliance obligations, policy developments, rate proceedings, transmission initiatives, and emerging energy challenges. This is a remote position supporting clients and projects across the U.S. This is a highly visible, internal and external client‑facing role requiring exceptional communication skills, strong energy regulatory depth, and the ability to manage complex advisory engagements from early concept through execution.

Your Impact

Regulatory Strategy & Advisory

• Advise clients on regulatory requirements, policy developments, and market design changes affecting energy infrastructure and operations.
• Interpret and assess impacts of proceedings before regulatory bodies, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), Independent System Operators (ISOs), Environmental and energy agencies.
• Develop regulatory strategies supporting generation, transmission, distribution, storage, renewable energy, and emerging technologies.
• Monitor and communicate regulatory developments that may affect client investments, operations, and market participation.

Market and Policy Analysis

• Analyze wholesale electricity markets, capacity markets, ancillary service markets, and transmission planning processes.
• Evaluate implications of market rule changes, reliability requirements, and resource adequacy frameworks.
• Assess impacts of federal and state energy policies on project economics and market opportunities.
• Prepare regulatory assessments supporting mergers, acquisitions, project development, and investment decisions.

Client Relationship Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for key client accounts.
• Identify opportunities to expand consulting engagements through proactive client support.
• Lead client presentations, workshops, and executive briefings.
• Build and maintain relationships with regulators, utilities, market operators, trade associations, and industry stakeholders.

Business Development

• Support proposal development and client pursuits.
• Contribute thought leadership articles, white papers, conference presentations, and webinars.
• Identify emerging industry trends and develop new consulting service offerings.
• Mentor junior consultants and support practice growth initiatives.

Why This Role Matters

The Senior Energy Regulatory Advisor serves as a strategic bridge between regulatory requirements, operations realities, and business objectives while helping our clients maintain compliance, mitigate risk, participate effectively in energy markets, and influence policy decisions that shape the future of energy industry.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Public Policy, Energy Systems, Business, Political Science, Law, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and industry experience.
• 12+ years of experience in electric utility regulation, compliance, energy markets, reliability, transmission operations, policy development, or a related field.
• Travel to client sites, industry conferences, stakeholder meetings, regulatory proceedings, and compliance events throughout the United States as needed. Travel 30% of time.
• Demonstrated knowledge of:
  • FERC regulations, orders, open access transmission tariffs, interconnection procedures, transmission planning processes, and compliance requirements
  • NERC Reliability Standards
  • Regional entity compliance programs
  • RTO/ISO market structures and stakeholder processes
  • State utility regulation and public utility commissions
• Experience supporting utilities, generation owners/operators, transmission owners/operators, generation developers, transmission developers, independent power producers, energy marketers, or other regulated energy organizations.
• Experience participating in ISO/RTO stakeholder processes, tariff development, market design initiatives, or regulatory working groups.
• Understanding of wholesale energy markets, transmission planning, generator interconnection, large load interconnection, transmission services, reliability frameworks, market operations, and grid integration activities across North American markets.
• Experience preparing regulatory analyses, compliance assessments, technical reports, policy recommendations, or regulatory filings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's level Degree in Engineering, Public Policy, Economics, Business Administration, Energy Systems, or a related discipline.
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) or experience supporting regulatory legal proceedings.
• Professional certifications such as:
  • NERC Compliance Certification
  • Professional Engineer Registration / Engineer in Training (EIT)
  • PMP
  • Engineering Risk Professional (ERP)
  • Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC)
• Direct experience with one or more of the following:
  • FERC proceedings and filings
  • NERC audits and enforcement activities
  • RTO/ISO stakeholder committees
  • State commission regulatory processes
  • Market design and tariff development
  • Grid modernization initiatives
  • Energy storage and renewable integration policy
• Experience developing regulatory strategy for emerging technologies and energy transition initiatives.
• Experience working for or directly supporting FERC, NERC, a Regional Entity, ISO/RTO, state commission, or utility regulatory organization is preferred. While electric is focus of this position, knowledge with gas, water or other utilities is beneficial.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

• Expected Salary (all locations): $153,400 - $283,600

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

• Expected Salary (Colorado only): $153,400 - $236,300

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.