Dir Regulatory Compliance

PPL Corporation•Allentown, PA

26d

About The Position

Provides enterprise-wide strategic direction, governance, and leadership for FERC and NERC compliance across PPL utilities in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, including generation facilities and gas TSA compliance. Represents PPL’s interests and influences national and regional standards and policy through FERC, NERC, applicable Regional Entities, EEI, PJM, NATF, and other industry groups. The role is directly accountable for the performance, effectiveness, and continuous improvement of the company’s FERC, NERC, generation, and gas TSA compliance programs. The position leads the enterprise FERC and NERC Compliance organization and program, ensuring regulatory submissions are complete and timely, programs and documentation are audit-quality, and audits and related compliance activities are coordinated effectively. It develops enterprise procedures, controls, evidence standards, metrics, reporting, compliance plans, organizational capabilities, and resource strategies; oversees corrective actions and remediation; and builds a high-performing team. The role also directs engagement with regulators and industry forums to assess and influence emerging policy, standards, and implementation guidance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in the electric utility, generation, gas, or energy industry, including responsibility for regulatory compliance, risk, audit, legal, operations, or a related control function.
10+ years of demonstrated expertise applying FERC and NERC requirements to critical business processes and leading compliance programs across multiple business units, jurisdictions, or registered entities.

Nice To Haves

Ability to lead leaders and technical teams, establish enterprise governance, and influence outcomes across business units and executive stakeholders.
Executive-level leadership, judgment, influencing, and collaboration skills, including capability in risk-based decision-making, performance oversight, talent development, and organizational governance.
Ability to set enterprise priorities and lead multiple high-impact regulatory, audit, remediation, and operational initiatives concurrently across multiple jurisdictions and business lines.
Experience overseeing compliance across multiple jurisdictions, registered entities, utilities, generation facilities, or energy business lines.
Experience communicating material compliance risks, audit results, and corrective-action status to executive leadership and governance bodies.

Responsibilities

Direct the enterprise FERC and NERC Compliance organization supporting the company’s Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island utilities, including generation facilities and gas TSA compliance.
Ensure complete and timely regulatory submissions, audit-quality programs and documentation, and effective coordination of internal and external audits, spot checks, self-certifications, investigations, and other compliance activities.
Lead an enterprise-wide NERC compliance program to ensure applicable utility and generation organizations meet NERC Reliability Standards, Regional Entity requirements, and associated requirements shared with regional transmission organizations and other industry entities.
Lead development and governance of business-specific procedures, controls, and evidence standards to ensure consistent compliance with applicable FERC and NERC requirements across utilities and covered operations.
Establish an enterprise compliance culture and effective partnerships among compliance staff, utility and generation leaders, gas stakeholders, Legal, Internal Audit, Corporate Compliance, IT, Security, and other control functions.
Develop and monitor enterprise metrics, risk indicators, and executive reporting; direct corrective actions and sustainable remediation when necessary.
Serve as the central enterprise leader for compliance strategy, governance, training, and continuous improvement across regulated utilities, generation facilities, and applicable gas activities.
Partner with Corporate Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, IT, Corporate Security, Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Gas, and Operations to develop and implement effective, efficient, and consistent compliance programs.
Lead development and implementation of enterprise strategies, programs, procedures, processes, controls, and business tools to meet applicable FERC and NERC requirements.
Oversee identification of reporting and evidence requirements for FERC-approved standards and other covered obligations, ensure appropriate submissions, and communicate emerging risks, issues, and compliance status to utility, generation, gas, and corporate leadership.
Lead and monitor required FERC posting, reporting, and related compliance activities; direct compliance staff and programs to meet enterprise objectives, regulatory commitments, and business priorities.
Lead the company’s response and strategy for the evolving FERC and NERC regulatory environment by directing participation in FERC, NERC, Regional Entity, and industry forums.
Ensure appropriate engagement to assess and influence emerging policy, standards development, balloting, interpretations, and implementation guidance.
Coordinate company participation on NERC, Regional Entity, and industry committees, bringing enterprise perspectives into standards and policy development.
Represent the company’s strategic position by serving on, or directing participation in, industry and regulatory committees and building relationships with regulators, Regional Entities, reliability organizations, and peer utilities.
Develop enterprise compliance plans, organizational capabilities, resource strategies, budgets, and priorities.
Build and develop a high-performing team with the capacity and expertise to support multiple jurisdictions, utility operations, generation facilities, and gas TSA obligations.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Comply with all policies and standards.