Senior Project Manager, Electricity Capital Project Delivery

natgridProd • Webster, MA

4d • $109,000 - $144,000 • Onsite

About The Position

National Grid is hiring a Senior Program Manager in its Reliability Compliance & Policy team. The team provides leadership, governance, and oversight of the company’s NERC compliance framework, connecting regulatory policy, standards development, compliance readiness, ongoing compliance, risk management, and regulatory assurance. The role bridges the development of reliability requirements and National Grid’s ability to comply with them sustainably: influencing requirements early, assessing business impacts, preparing the organization, and ensuring a controlled transition to ongoing compliance.

The position leads National Grid’s engagement in developing, evaluating, interpreting, and implementing new and revised NERC Reliability Standards and applicable NPCC requirements. It provides leadership across the standards lifecycle, from emerging reliability and security issues and early standards development through formal comments and balloting, applicability and gap assessment, readiness, implementation, and transition to ongoing compliance. The role coordinates subject matter experts across affected functions, translates changing requirements into business impacts, identifies risks, and drives timely, sustainable compliance. It also represents National Grid in industry forums and coordinates company positions on proposed standards.

The position requires occasional travel across the United States and Canada (less than 5%) and a U.S. passport. National Grid will not provide current or future visa sponsorship. Salary is $123,000–$144,000 per year in Northboro, Massachusetts, or $109,000–$128,000 per year in Syracuse, New York, commensurate with experience and location.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, risk management, cybersecurity, legal, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience in the electric utility industry, regulatory compliance, reliability, risk management, operations, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple organizations and competing priorities.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex technical and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business actions.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with technical subject matter experts and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating complex regulatory issues to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong organizational, project-management, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Occasional travel across the United States and Canada is required (less than 5%); a U.S. passport is required.
• Must be able to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NERC Reliability Standards and Rules of Procedure, NPCC requirements, and/or the NERC Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program.
• Experience with both Operations & Planning (O&P) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards.
• Experience with NERC or Regional Entity standards development, commenting, balloting, or industry committee processes.
• Experience conducting compliance readiness, gap assessments, applicability evaluations, internal control assessments, or regulatory implementation programs.
• Experience developing or reviewing RSAWs, compliance evidence, procedures, controls, or audit documentation.
• Familiarity with Governance, Risk & Compliance platforms such as Archer.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess new and revised NERC Reliability Standards, NPCC requirements, reliability guidelines, and related initiatives.
• Coordinate National Grid subject matter expert review, comments, positions, and voting recommendations to help shape requirements before they are finalized.
• Lead end-to-end readiness for new and revised Reliability Standards, including applicability and gap assessments, interpretation, implementation planning, action tracking, procedure and control development, readiness sign-off, and transition to ongoing compliance.
• Evaluate requirements for applicability, implementation impacts, compliance risks, and potential business implications; document conclusions and escalate significant issues to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead cross-functional engagement with technical subject matter experts, compliance teams, and business leaders to clarify requirements and responsibilities, resolve implementation challenges, and prepare the organization for sustainable compliance.
• Represent and coordinate National Grid participation in NERC, NPCC, EEI, NATF, and other relevant industry forums; monitor emerging reliability issues, influence standards development, and bring industry perspectives and leading practices back to National Grid.
• Oversee the standards-development and compliance-readiness portfolio, including regulatory milestones, effective dates, implementation activities, risks, dependencies, and leadership reporting.
• Continually improve the governance framework, processes, tools, and controls supporting the program.
• Provide subject matter expertise for regulatory audits and reviews involving newly implemented standards, support regulatory inquiries and Requests for Information, and apply lessons learned to future standards and readiness activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior