This position will manage Hetch Hetchy Water and Power’s WECC/NERC compliance programs.

As established by the SFPUC Electric Power Reliability Compliance Program, the WECC/NERC Compliance Specialist reports to the HHWP Power Regulatory Compliance Manager. The NERC Compliance Specialist is responsible for day-to-day Program implementation and coordination roles to develop and maintain auditable compliance with NERC Reliability Standards.

Essential Duties:

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

-Develops, implements, and evaluates program elements; develops actionable plans for creating and improving processes, procedures, and compliance evidence required for successful completion of NERC/WECC compliance audits; leading on-going development of a "culture of compliance"

-Leads and coordinates communication with NERC and WECC and may represent NERC Compliance Officer as compliance decision-maker

-Oversees NERC Compliance Program business process development;

-Develops program budgets and monitors and controls program expenditures; coordinates the development of professional service agreements and administers and controls contract expenditures

-Oversees pre-audit preparations and audit logistics

-Responds to possible issues of noncompliance, making judgments and as appropriate recommending self-reports; ensuring that HHWP follows NERC/WECC violations process and maintains its protections under that process; ensuring that any corrective action deadlines and deliverables are met.

-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.

-Develops and works with training team to implement policies and programs; trans analysts, technicians, and other personnel on policies, procedures and compliance issues

-Writes a variety of documents including reports; work plans; general correspondence; operating, financial and marketing plans; program descriptions; operating procedures and policty recommendations; meeting minutes; legal and regulatory interpretations and issues; other types of written documents as needed to support the diverse work activities assigned to this class.

-Supervises Utility Analysts and other technical personnel and provides technical support and expertise for assigned specialty area.