Location of Services: Edmonds, Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Max INC Rate: $63.80/
Max T4 Rate: $52.70/

Duties:

-Facilitates meetings with defined scope, clearly communicates the intent and can follow up on identified solutions with key stakeholders until resolved.
-Identify technical and unique design and field engineering problems and escalate and engage appropriate stakeholders for collaboration discussions to fulfill NERC CIP compliance requirements and to support successful operations and/or project completion at BC Hydro.
-Sustains and monitors existing CIP compliance processes and workflows, procedures, and quality assurance practices. Ensures adherence to NERC CIP requirements, BC Hydro and industry standards, policies, practices, and procedures. This involves participating in violation investigations, sequence of events, and violation mitigation plan deliverables or internal compliance assurance activities.
-Participates and conducts annual CIP Compliance activities and deliverables (e.g. self-certification, audit, vulnerability assessment, etc.)
-Coordinates technical work activities, provides instructions, advice and technical guidance to other engineers, project, technical and administrative staff.
-Peer reviews work of other engineers or designers to ensure accuracy, achievement of required results, and adherence to NERC CIP compliance practices.
- Resolves site queries, reviewing field evidence, and issuing connection coversheets during the construction phase of projects.
-Maintains complete compliance documentation with respect to Transmission Stations NERC CIP processes, including all attestations, field records, and key documents.
-Fulfills functional role of CIP Compliance Engineer as assigned, maintains appropriate commitments to project teams, and coordinates compliance activities with multi-disciplined project team.
-Inventory and progress workflows in Compliance System (Sigma Flow 2.0)

Qualifications:

- Preferred areas of study include computer engineering, control systems, telecommunications, systems engineering, or power engineering.
- Candidates with lower qualifications may be considered and evaluated for placement in associated positions at a lower level.
- Experience in NERC CIP compliance and cybersecurity for industrial control systems (ICS) infrastructure/environment is an asset. - Strong communications (verbal and written), technical writing, interpersonal, and presentation skills are required.
- Good understanding of project and task management processes.
- Prior experience with Microsoft Excel Virtual Basic for Applications, Microsoft Access, data analytics, scripting in PowerShell or Python, and port scanning of Operation Technology devices preferred.
- Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.