NERC Standard Manager Lead

Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Salary: $136,539–$177,503 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions to customers and communities.

What you will do

• Support business units in becoming audit-ready and improving compliance with NERC requirements.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and training across NERC audit readiness services.
• Investigate potential compliance incidents, identify root causes and risks, and draft language for regulator review.
• Develop and monitor mitigation plans, including milestones, preventive efforts, and completion evidence.
• Lead implementation of new and revised NERC standards with business unit leadership.
• Support RSAW development, gap analyses, controls, evidence collection, and responses to regulator RFIs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, communications, computer science, business, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in the electric utility or a similarly regulated industry.
• Hands-on experience with business unit systems and processes.
• Ability to manage complex and high-risk CIP and O&P standards and understand how NERC standards relate to regional entities and RTOs.
• Ability to drive consensus across business units and communicate compliance opportunities to executive leadership.
• Experience in NERC or similar regulatory compliance is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• NERC, PMP, PE, or similar certification or license.
• Experience with NERC standards development.
• Experience representing organizational needs with external stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment at an energy company focused on reliable service and continuous improvement.
• Sedentary work with occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling of up to 10 pounds.
• Equal employment opportunity across recruiting, compensation, training, promotion, and other employment practices.