at Evergy (formerly Westar Energy*) in Wichita, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Summary of Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
This position supports Evergy’s strategic initiatives through development, oversight, and continuous improvement of NERC compliance practices. This includes remaining up to date on current operational projects, and their impacted compliance initiatives by working closely with vendors, engineers, operators, technicians, management, information technology resources, and internal stakeholder groups.
This position works closely with the Substation and Relay Operation groups to coordinate and evaluate maintenance and testing results through the life cycle of transmission, substation, and generation protection and control systems affecting the Bulk Electric System (BES). Furthermore, this position will provide backup support for T&D NERC CIP compliance in accordance with Evergy’s NERC CIP cyber policies and procedures.
• Provides and promotes an effective culture of reliability compliance and other regulatory requirements.
• Develops work procedures and training plans related to NERC compliance. Assists operational personnel with communication and execution of training.
• Effective coordination and evidence collection of NERC compliance requirements performed by Evergy Substation and Relay department.
• Development, maintenance, and continuous improvements of NERC compliance business practices and documentation.
• Track and perform evaluations/investigations of Sequence of Events Recording (SERs), Fault Recordings (FRs), Digital Fault Recordings (DFRs), Dynamic Disturbance Recording (DDRs).
• Builds and manages corrective action plans to track and mitigate unresolved maintenance issues.
• Utilizes computerized tools (Powerbase, Maximo, Microsoft Office Suite, etc.) to manage work.
• Coordinate with FERC/NERC Compliance team in preparing evidence for internal and external NERC audits and other ad hoc compliance initiatives conducted throughout the year.
• Interface with internal and external audit staff to ensure appropriate and accurate responses to NERC compliance queries are satisfied in a timely fashion.
• Other duties as assigned. This individual is expected to perform as a backup for other departmental functions.
