Reliability Assurance Specialist

1 month ago

Burnaby, Canada BC Hydro Full time

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:

- One of BC Hydro’s key business priorities is to ensure compliance with the North American

Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Mandatory Reliability Standards (MRS). MRS have been
adopted by the BC Utilities Commission to achieve, sustain and demonstrate compliance to
support the reliability of the bulk electric system.
- To manage MRS, BC Hydro has established a Reliability Standards Assurance (RSA) Business

Unit to provide MRS leadership, compliance and strategic expertise to advance a sustainable
compliance program. This role in RSA will report to the O&P Assurance Manager and is focused
on the assurance of the approximately 90 adopted Operations and Planning (O&P) Standards
including topics such as facility ratings, protection & control programs, system operation and
system planning. The Reliability Compliance Specialist will lead the assurance program planning,
implementation and reporting, monitor and engage in the MRS program development in the US
and Canada and engage with industry stakeholders
Specific responsibilities for this role include:

- Leads development of MRS assurance program to have a consistent approach to assurance

engagements including strategy sessions with Assurance teams and completing process and
program documentation.
- Plans, develops and manages an MRS assurance engagement strategy and a 3-year risk-based

plan for the O&P Standards using on compliance history, risk and control maturity, and business
monitoring implementation.
- Leads the delivery of assurance engagements by defining and obtaining resources; scheduling

assurance engagements; monitoring progress, communicating results and documenting the
assurance findings.
- Develop and utilize technical knowledge to conduct assurance activities which may include

auditing the standards implementation, reviewing the quality and adequacy of compliance
narratives and evidence, testing the strength and quality of internal controls as well as identifying
opportunities to improve practices and tools.
- Prepares, presents and discusses assurance engagement results with managers, directors and

executives. Negotiate and document the business groups management action plans to address
findings from the engagement results.
- Monitors and evaluates pertinent Canadian and US MRS initiatives, regulations, and / or rulings;
participate in related conferences and seminars, builds relationships and maintain membership
with relevant industry professional associations and organizations, and recommend best
practices.
- Develops and maintains expertise and knowledge with the O&P Standards, by a combination of

self-study, peer reviews and relevant industry engagement.
- Provides technical leadership for compliance guidance; communicates and advises stakeholders

across all levels of the organization on MRS and compliance expectations and compliance
monitoring and enforcement policies.
- Leads and supports O&P MRS non-compliance investigations, assists with developing mitigation

plans and monitors and finalizes completion
- Performs other activities of a comparable type as required.

**Qualifications**:
***
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business or Public Administration, Political Science, or other

relevant field, or equivalent combination of education, skills and experience related to compliance
- assurance activities (including auditing).- A minimum of 12+ years of progressive compliance and assurance experience in a highly

regulated environment, preferably within the energy / electric utility industry. Preference will be-
- Demonstrated and proven senior level experience and ability in the following:

- auditing, risk evaluations and control testing.
- leading investigations including completing cause analysis.
- experience with NERC/WECC/MRS Programs in Canada and/or the US will be beneficial.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to communicate with target

audiences all levels within the organization; including strong presentation skills to convey complex
- technical issues to diverse audiences- Excellent relationship management, collaboration and interpersonal ski

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