IT Cyber Security Compliance Consultant (CIP Specialist)

Duties :

One of the 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 135 adopted Standards cover topics such as real-time operations, long term transmission system planning, protection system maintenance programs and critical infrastructure protection.

This leading utilities client 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 Standards Assurance Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Assurance Department which provides oversight for MRS CIP compliance across the organization. Oversight includes : Strengthening a culture of compliance, minimizing the occurrence of violations and ensuring the organization meets its legal obligations.
• Providing CIP expertise, following industry developments and conducting benchmarking with other utilities on compliance best practices.
• Supporting the organization with implementing CIP practices
• Performing assurance activities and reports the outcomes to management and setting requirements on incident reporting / investigation frameworks.
• Conducting root cause analysis, and evidence collection, mitigation planning and continuous improvements, and supporting regulatory processes as required.

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Job 70762