NERC Compliance Specialist-Senior

• Perform tasks required to ensure compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) reliability standards applicable to AEP. The tasks required vary widely relative to the standards measures, as such; tasks would be assigned to make best use of the successful candidate's background. These tasks would be principally related to processes and procedures developed to comply with the applicable NERC suite of standards both Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) & Operations and Planning (O&P).  

• This includes: 

• Validating report data  

• Generating reports to save as audit evidence. 

• Collaborating with other AEP business units to compile and validate evidence. 

• Monitor and support NERC CIP security patch management activities, including tracking patch evaluations, reviewing implementation status, validating required compliance evidence, and identifying potential compliance risks related to patch deployment timelines. 

• Review and track configuration baseline change tickets to ensure changes are properly authorized, documented, tested, and incorporated into approved baseline configurations in accordance with NERC CIP change management requirements. 

• Assist the Manager Transmission NERC Compliance to ensure that reliability standards, strategy, documentation, and associated evidence are aligned and consistent with AEP policy and strategy. 

• Coordinate with other Transmission Organizations, Commercial Operations, Generation and Corporate in compliance monitoring and tracking. 

• Ensure that appropriate processes are in place to track and monitor newly developed standards. 

• Capture appropriate evidence and confirm that others are capturing appropriate evidence to meet compliance requirements, through internal controls. 

• Guide others through the process of reviewing developing standards to enhance the monitoring and tracking of NERC reliability compliance standards and facilitate record keeping of evidence associated with said standards. 

• Participate in periodic audits performed by the RTOs to assess AEP compliance with the full range of NERC reliability standards; assist in performing internal audits as required. 

What we’re looking for:  

NERC Compliance Specialist SG7  

Education:  

• Associate’s degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field,  

• Or High School Diploma / GED and two (3) years of experience in compliance and/or Information Technology. 

Experience:  

• Minimum of three (3) years