WECC/NERC Compliance Specialist – Hetch Hetchy Water & Power (Moccasin) – SFPUC (5602) (Exempt)

Company Description

• Application Opening: May 2, 2025
• Application Filing Deadline: July 8, 2025 (applicant deadline has been extended from June 13, 2025 in order to broaden the candidate pool)
• Recruitment ID:  155811
• Hours: M-F 7:00am-3:30pm; Hybrid work schedule authorized.

• APPOINTMENT TYPE: Exempt- This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

  THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN MOCCASIN, CA, OR OAKDALE, CA
  IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS APPROXIMATELY 140 MILES EAST OF SAN FRANCISCO.
  
  WHO ARE WE?
  San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
  Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

  Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

  Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

  We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

  We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

  To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

  The Hetch Hetchy Operating Division is responsible for collecting and transmitting 80% of the drinking water consumed by the SFPUC’s 2.8 million water customers. The Division is also responsible for the hydroelectric generation and transmission to the SFPUC’s wholesale electric customers. Hetch Hetchy Water & Power (HHWP) is responsible for a diverse set of water and power assets such as four powerhouses (400MW), eight generating units, six substations/switchyards, 170 miles of transmission lines, 215 miles of pipeline, and over 150 miles of roads and surrounding land. 

Job Description

Project: WECC/NERC Programmatic Overhaul Project        

WECC/NERC Compliance Specialist

This position will manage Hetch Hetchy Water and Power’s WECC/NERC compliance programs. The workload required to stay in compliance with NERC and WECC has increased over the years. As such, additional resources are required to handle the increased workload. This is critical regulatory work. Specifically, this position will be used to support regulatory related tasks on high voltage assets including transmission lines, breakers, switches, transformers, and generators.

Essential Functions:

1. Monitors operations to ensure compliance with policy directives, laws, regulations, and contractual constraints.

2. Develops analytical and predictive models; conducts technical and economic feasibility evaluations of proposed capital projects; incorporates results of analyses into cost/benefit assessments; conducts a wide variety of analytical studies related to assessment of operational effectiveness, financial and market risk, price sensitivity, and other complex studies as assigned.

3. Develops and implements seasonal, monthly and multi-year operating, financial and capital plans. Develops and maintains Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules; reviews and analyzes Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) schedules for variances and trends; maintains and makes recommendation for improvements to the cost control system to track spending relative to project budgets and schedules; and maintains a cost estimate database by providing project cost estimates and reviewing actual construction costs relative to engineers' estimates.

4. Directly negotiates large seasonal and yearly contracts, rates and service terms; provides negotiation support on division-wide multi-year contracts; establishes rate policies and negotiating parameters for short-term purchase and sale transactions and agreements.

5. Identifies operational constraints and develops, evaluates or recommends policies and procedures to improve operations, mitigate risks, increase revenues and decrease costs.

6. Develops training programs to imp