Reliability Assurance Specialist - Burnaby, Canada - BC Hydro
Description
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Duties:
- One of BC Hydro's key business priorities is to ensure compliance with the North American
- Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Mandatory Reliability Standards (MRS). MRS have been
- support the reliability of the bulk electric system.
- To manage MRS, BC Hydro has established a Reliability Standards Assurance (RSA) Business
- Unit to provide MRS leadership, compliance guidance and strategic expertise to advance a
- is focused on the assurance of the Operations and Planning (O&P) Standards including topics
- such as facility ratings, protection & control programs, system operation and system planning.
- The Reliability Compliance Specialist will lead the assurance program planning, implementation
- engage with industry stakeholders.
- Specific responsibilities for this role include:
- Leads development of MRS assurance program to have a consistent approach to assurance
- drafting program documentation.
- Plans, develops and manages an MRS assurance engagement strategy and a 3year riskbased
- monitoring implementation as inputs.
- Leads the delivery of assurance engagements by defining and obtaining resources; scheduling
- assurance findings.
- Develop and utilize technical knowledge to conduct assurance activities which may include
narratives and evidence, testing the strength and quality of internal controls as well as identifying
opportunities to improve practices and tools.
- Prepares, presents and discusses assurance engagement results with managers, directors and
findings from the engagement results.
- Monitors and evaluates pertinent Canadian and US MRS initiatives, regulations, and / or rulings;
with relevant industry professional associations and organizations, and recommend best practices.
- Develops and maintains expertise and knowledge with the O&P Standards, by a combination of
- Provides technical leadership for compliance guidance; communicates and advises stakeholders
monitoring and enforcement policies.
- Leads and supports O&P MRS compliance investigations, assists with developing mitigation
- Performs other activities of a comparable type as required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business or Public Administration, Political Science, or other
- assurance activities (including auditing).
- A minimum of 12+ years of progressive compliance and assurance experience in a highly
- operations, etc.).
- Demonstrated and proven senior level experience and ability in the following:
- auditing, risk evaluations and control testing.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to communicate with target
- technical issues to diverse audiences
- Excellent relationship management,
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