Job Title: Program Manager - CIAC Compliance
Reports to: Manager of Distribution Planning (RG&E)
Job Summary
This position will be the subject matter expert on Contributions-in-Aid-of-Construction (CIAC) and their associated customer billing requirements in accordance with the NYSEG/RGE tariff and policies. In this role, the incumbent will proactively communicate with Field Personnel (Field Engineers, Field Planners and Engineering Supervisors) on a regular basis to ensure accurate billing procedures are adhered to develop processes around CIAC projects, complete periodic auditing and tracking, and collaborate with other NY utilities as a regulatory subject matter expert in customer billing and policies. This role leads compliance initiatives, such as audits and regulatory compliance matters such as regulatory pricing allocation procedures by performing analytical studies focusing on project actuals vs. planned costs and their associated funding classification (CAPEX, OPEX). Provide annual training to affected stakeholders (e.g., Projects, Planning, Field Engineers) on policy and pricing policies and criteria to ensure compliance with CIAC projects. Candidates that do not meet all preferred requirements are encouraged to submit applications for consideration.
Key Responsibilities
- Business Leadership: Energizing leader that promotes a culture of collaboration, efficiency, innovation, growth, and development to advance business objectives.
- Strategic and Technical Leadership: Provides leadership and facilitates collaborative decision to develop, modify and implement policy and training materials along with conducting annual training to Field Engineers on NYS Electric Tariff and NYSEG/REG Billing Policy.
- Communicate, influence, and motivate: Use of excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of management to inform and influence others, providing strategic input for business plans and decision making on regulatory and policy issues to advance business objectives. Servers as Avangrid NY regulator Subject Matter Expert (Customer Contributions, Billing, and Electrification).
- Regional Strategy & Regulatory: Provides input into the development of processes and strategies for the business unit that reflect knowledge of national, regional, and local dockets, orders and regulations. Anticipates impacts of legislative and regulatory changes to tariffs, investment rate recovery and business strategies and plans.
- Company Representation: Represent NYSEG and RG&E in national and regional forums related to regulatory knowledge of Distribution Standards, PSC 119 tariff, Operations and Engineering Design, Customer Billing, Analytics, Regulatory Pricing.
- Documentation Management: Ability to adequately document and interpret tariffs documentation, review and monitor engineering cost estimates done by others upon having a strong knowledge in Regulatory and Compliance Environment with Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and Requirements (NERC, NPCC, ISO, NY DPS, etc.)
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology, business, or related field required with at least eight (8) years of practical experience with working knowledge in utility disciplines.
- Broad range of competencies in areas such as regulatory matters, rate design, capital investment planning, and/or tariffs and policies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to lead, train, and develop others on New York State policy and regulatory matters.
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and report on complex projects with a particular focus on Contributions in Aid of Construction (CIAC) Projects, hybrid CAPEX/CIAC Projects, and the development and monitoring of cost allocation standards/practices.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to collaboratively lead teams across multiple business areas.
- Regular interactions with outside regulatory agencies (e.g., NY DPS) and internal departments is a must.
- Experience in government and/or utility affairs with an advanced understanding of revenue requirements and cost recovery mechanisms.
- Demonstrated ability to oversee, prepare, and deliver concise communications to all levels including internal Executives and Sr. Leadership as well as external Regulators, and other key stakeholders.
- Candidates with additional expertise in project/program management, distribution field design, cost estimate development are preferred.
Competencies
- Growth & Continuous Improvement
- Initiative & Change
- Focused on Results
- Customer Centric (internal and/or External)
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership (people managers/leaders)
Mobility Information
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