Critical Infrastructure Protection Specialist

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during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

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solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

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

- One of BC Hydro’s key business priorities is to take steps 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 with its obligations to support the reliability of the bulk electric system. The
approximately 120 adopted Standards cover topics such as real-time operations, long term
transmission system planning, protection system maintenance programs and critical infrastructure
protection.
- BC Hydro is continuing to strengthen its capacity to build, implement and sustain a robust

internal compliance program that significantly impacts many areas of the company and has
established new roles spanning multiple business areas to support this effort.
- This role is in the Reliability Compliance Department which provides oversight for MRS

compliance across BC Hydro. Oversight includes strengthening a culture of compliance,
minimizing the occurrence of violations and ensuring BC Hydro meets its legal obligations. This
role provides CIP expertise, follows industry developments and conducts benchmarking with other
utilities on compliance best practices, supports the organization with implementing CIP practices,
performs assurance activities and reports the outcomes to management, set requirements on
incident reporting/investigation frameworks, cause analysis, and evidence collection, mitigation
planning and continuous improvements, and supports regulatory processes as required.
Specific responsibilities include:

- Manage and provide support to internal stakeholders for the successful implementation and

sustainment of compliance with MRS
- Maintain expertise and knowledge with MRS broadly and CIP specifically, by building strong

relations with WECC, other utilities, and other interest groups
- Manage all BC Hydro communications with WECC on CIP compliance matters
- Identify potential upcoming changes to standards and coordinate BC Hydro involvement in

potential changes (drafting, commenting, voting)- Prepare BC Hydro’s final Assessment Report filings of new/revised standards by reviewing and

incorporating assessments from all BCUC MRS Program registered entities- Identify CIP Program improvements including governance, compliance monitoring processes/

procedures and assisting with implementation plans- Support the business with assessing risks and implementing internal controls related to CIP and

lead compliance assurance activities regarding business groups compliance status- Utilize technical knowledge along with controls experience to review the quality and adequacy of

compliance narratives and evidence, and strength and quality of internal controls. Identify
- opportunities to improve practices and tools- Provide coaching, guidance, and education to the CIP Program Office and business units as a

CIP technical expert on the interpretation of standards, WECC’s audit approach, including
- developing training materials, regular communications and governance direction- Provide guidance on non-compliance investigations, make non-compliance determinations,

prepare and file self-reports to WECC, and assist with developing mitigation plans- Review and assess the adequacy of developed CIP mitigation plans and associated completion

packages for filing with WECC. Develop and provide tracking information on a timely basis to
- decision-makers. Perform trend analysis to support or challenge reporting- Support and provide direction for other MRS Program accountabilities including annual BCUC

Assessment Reports for MRS adoption, Canada Energy Regulator reporting, On Site Audits, etc.**Qualifications**:
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- University degree or experience in relevant discipline or equivalent combination of education and

experience.- Ability to obtain security clearance for a Security Sensitive Position classification
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant cyber security and/or associated reliability compliance/audit
- to cyber security experience may be given preference.- Registered Professional Engineer or security relevant ce