NERC Compliance Associate

Talen Energy•Byesville, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Guernsey Power Station (GPS) is a $1.6 billion 1,875 MW 3x1x1 GE 7HA.02 combined cycle electric generating facility commissioned in 2023 and located in Guernsey County, OH. The primary responsibility of the position is to provide analytical support and coordination for the NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) CIP Reliability Compliance Program. In addition, the position will serve as a backup to the plant DCS (Distributed Control System) Engineer. The Manager will work closely with facility staff, corporate NERC resources, and external regulators to maintain and improve the NERC compliance posture of Guernsey Power Station. This includes technical system support, control system security, internal audits, training, and continuous improvement of compliance programs.

Requirements

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or Business Administration, or one year of NERC CIP Reliability Standard knowledge and experience strongly desired.
Knowledge of firewalls, switches, routers, servers, and Windows.
Familiarity with networks, change management, anti-malware, configuration baselines, patching, or other security practices.
Strong understanding of networks, change management, anti-malware, configuration baselines, patching, or other security practices
Strong Administrative and computer experience
Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, patch management systems, and endpoint protection tools.
Working knowledge of change management, configuration baseline, and incident response.

Nice To Haves

Practical experience in power plant operations and maintenance is desired.

Responsibilities

Coordinates all aspects of the Plant Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards
NERC CIP Compliance which Includes maintaining NERC procedures and logs and other required documentation.
Keep all site NERC procedures to the current NERC CIP Standards
Maintain all NERC CIP defined equipment to ensure they are kept up to date with all the latest cyber security updates
Conducts audits of plant systems to ensure compliance, which will include CIP policies, procedures, practices, checklists, worklists, internal controls, process flows, training material and other material as needed to support compliant, effective, and efficient business operations
Assess evidence of compliance gathered by subject matter experts to determine its applicability and completeness for demonstrating compliance to NERC standards.
Identify and investigate potential anomalies and/or non-compliances and escalate to management, as necessary; perform root cause analyses and develop corrective actions to mitigate the potential reoccurrence of near-misses and/or non-compliances.
Assist in the preparation of self-reports.
Support roll-out of training at the plant to support NERC compliance activities.
Support and assist in all efforts to prepare, draft, and coordinate materials responsive to regulatory questionnaires, and other Requests for Information.
Assist the plant DCS engineer with the maintenance of the Plant’s DCS system as well as the numerous PLC (Programmable Logic Control) systems that are running site wide. This will include assisting operations and maintenance by troubleshooting logic issues, making logic changes due to process changes or improvements, and making graphics changes.