What The Role Is
Reporting to the Head of Operations Engineering, the NERC Compliance Engineer provides technical expertise in support of electrical regulatory compliance for Clearway’s fleet of Battery Energy Storage, Solar, and Wind generating facilities. This role is the primary technical liaison between the Electrical Regulatory Compliance (ERC) team and Power Systems Engineering, translating NERC Reliability Standards into engineering action and ensuring plant designs, settings, and operating practices stay in compliance. The role focuses on NERC PRC, FAC, and MOD standards related to plant design and performance, and requires enough fluency with power system modeling concepts to coordinate effectively with Engineering — without performing modeling directly. The position requires a minimum of five years of experience in the power generation, transmission, or distribution sectors and is based in Scottsdale, AZ.
What You'll Be Doing
Technical Liaison Between ERC and Engineering
Serve as the primary technical liaison between the Electrical Regulatory Compliance (ERC) team and Power Systems Engineering, managing regulatory requirements with audit-ready compliance evidence.
Partner with plant operations, asset management, and project engineering to ensure NERC compliance obligations are built into plant design, commissioning, and ongoing operations.
Represent Operations Engineering in cross-functional compliance meetings, internal audits, and NERC Regional Entity engagements.
Escalate compliance risks or engineering gaps identified during reviews to ERC and Operations Engineering leadership in a timely manner.
NERC Standards Compliance Management
Manage the technical compliance lifecycle — monitoring, evaluation, and evidence management — for the NERC PRC, FAC, and MOD Reliability Standards related to plant design and performance, including standards specific to Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) such as solar, wind, and battery energy storage:
PRC-019 – Coordination of Generating Unit or Plant Capabilities, Voltage Regulating Controls, and Protection
PRC-027 – Coordination of Protective Systems for Performance During Faults
PRC-028 – Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting Requirements for Inverter-Based Resources
PRC-029 – Frequency and Voltage Ride-Through Requirements for Inverter-Based Resources (successor to PRC-024)
PRC-030 – Unexpected Inverter-Based Resource Event Mitigation
PRC-002 – Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting
FAC-008 – Facility Ratings
MOD-025 – Verification and Data Reporting of Generator Real and Reactive Power Capability
MOD-026 – Verification of Models and Data for Plant Volt/Var Control Functions
MOD-027 – Verification of Models and Data for Active Power/Frequency Control Functions
MOD-032 – Data for Power System Modeling and Analysis
PRC-004 (Protection System Misoperation Identification and Correction) and PRC-005 (Protection System, Automatic Reclosing, and Sudden Pressure Relaying Maintenance) are managed by the Electrical Regulatory Compliance (ERC) team, Medium & High Voltage (MV&HV) Engineering, and Plant staff, and are outside the scope of this role.
Engineering Evaluations & Technical Support
Provide NERC technical evaluations and engineering reviews required for generating sites to achieve and maintain standards compliance.
Knowledge of power system models and modeling outputs (e.g., PSS/E, PSLF, PSCAD) produced by Power Systems Engineering that are used to evaluate protection settings, ride-through performance, and plant capability against NERC requirements; this role coordinates on modeling results but does not perform modeling directly.
Coordinate with Engineering and Plant staff to monitor Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) ride-through performance and support post-disturbance event mitigation activities required under PRC-029 and PRC-030.
ISO / TOP Engagement & Regulatory Support
Provide technical support and management of power engineering requirements from Independent System Operators (ISOs) and…