Director, NERC, FERC, and TSA Compliance

Requisition ID # 165526 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Gen Counsel, Ethics, Risk & Compliance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Enterprise Governance and Shared Compliance (EG&SC) group within the General Counsel, and Ethics, Risk, and Compliance (GC ERC) department provides leadership, strategic direction, and critical oversight of cross-cutting governance and compliance matters, including overseeing and expanding existing enterprise programs for compliance with FERC, NERC, TSA, and privacy requirements. One aspect of this function is to lead and support coordination, governance, and implementation of critical shared (e.g., cross-functional) compliance requirements and adherence with standardized enterprise and operational compliance risk mitigations. The group also provides enterprise-wide governance over Information and Records Management (IRG) requirements.

Position Summary

This position oversees PG&E's compliance with standards, rules and policies issued by the Company’s regulators, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This leader will be responsible for ensuring that the Company appropriately understands, documents and executes its operations that meet both the letter and spirit of regulator mandates. The successful candidate will have a strong process orientation, a deep understanding of how to establish and maintain compliance obligations, including for electric transmission operations, and have an open and authentic style conducive to creating and overseeing teams, whether or not in their direct chain of command. The successful candidate will also be comfortable meeting with regulators and other external parties on matters of operational compliance. They also will build bridges with other organizations internal to the business, such as legal, risk, generation and information technology so that the Company’s compliance is end-to-end across the enterprise. This leader regularly will meet with officers and senior leadership in the various lines of business to communicate issues, coordinate actions and recommend/direct improvements.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work headquarters in Oakland. 

Reporting Relationship

The Director, FERC, NERC, and TSA Compliance, reports to the Sr. Director and Managing Counsel, Enterprise Governance and Shared Compliance.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction for multiple departments and/or cross functional teams and program initiatives to ensure both the spirit and intent of all FERC, NERC, and TSA standards and procedures are consistently met or exceeded for every aspect of PG&E’s operations.
• Serves as the accountable enterprise process owner related to oversight and coordination of enterprise compliance with FERC requirements.
• Serves as the accountable enterprise process owner related to all aspects of NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection and Operations & Planning standards.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and thought leader and applies extensive expertise related to NERC standards and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with NERC, WECC, and TSA requirements for all aspects of PG&E’s operations.
• Manages department budget.
• Provides leadership and support in development of business planning and strategy for program design.
• Identifies the developmental needs of leaders, and coaches and mentors’ leaders to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Develops department long-term direction, operating plans, budgets and performance metrics.
• Sets department goals in support of established objectives.
• Develops, oversees, and implements policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards to support business operating plans and goals.
• Develops, maintains and tracks all record keeping systems to ensure they are traceable, verifiable and complete.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset
•    Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
•    Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry
•    Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization. 
•    Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership
•    A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
•    Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires
•    Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
•    Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance
•    Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
•    Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion
•    Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible
•    Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
•    Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in Compliance
•    Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.
•    Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a high level of customer service
•    Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $174,000
Bay Area Maximum: $296,000

Background Qualifications

Minimum

•    Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
•    10 years job related experience in regulatory and operational compliance.

Desired

•    Bachelor’s in engineering, electrical, mechanical or civil.
•    Law degree and job-related legal experience. 
•    Job related experience in electric operations and generation.
•    Deep experience and demonstrated success in process design, control and controls testing. 
•    Understanding of Federal regulatory requirements, such as by FERC, NERC, WECC, TSA, and California Independent System Operator (CAISO).