Regional and FERC Attorney

The WPSC necessarily participates in various regional energy efforts to plan construct and operate the generation and transmission system in the Western Interconnection. These efforts generally address issues that are ultimately determined or heavily influenced by FERC and other federal agencies. These regional matters have direct effects on the quantity and type of generation constructed in the future including how existing generation resources are dispatched their frequency and duration of operation and who will pay for the generation and transmission. These FERC-adjacent regional matters just as with direct FERC proceedings can have a profound effect on Wyoming ratepayers Wyomings energy future and consequently the states economy in general. This position bolsters Wyomings ability to effectively participate in these matters working closely with the WPSC Regional Analyst and the Commissioners to ensure Wyomings interests are protected and advanced in these matters.

• Paid annual and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Retirement with employer contributions
• Deferred Compensation Plan with employer contributions
• Health insurance with an employer contribution toward premiums
• Insurance options for health dental life vision ambulance and short and long-term disability
• Longevity pay

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• Monitors analyzes and advises the WPSC to develop strategy and related documents pertaining to rulemaking adjudicative proceedings and emerging issues related to FERC regulation of the bulk power system.
• Represents WPSC interests and manages complex matters in FERC proceedings handles complex factual legal and procedural FERC-related cases/issues.
• Acts as a policy and legal advisor for federal regulation to the WPSC; produces comments legal documents briefs motions and other pleadings or documents.
• Conducts legal research; appearing before FERC in proceedings to present WPSC interests and positions pertinent to the State of Wyoming and its ratepayers related to items such as transmission planning and cost allocation large load interconnection and other aspects of the bulk power system.
• Works with the WPSC Regional Policy Advisor and the Commissioners to ensure representation of Wyomings interests in these matters conducting innovative legal analysis devising strategy lending FERC expertise and providing professional and strategic legal advice to the WPSC in federal regulatory matters.
• Participates in Regional Transmission Organization and Independent System Operator activities including a variety of boards committees and ad hoc organizations developing positions and documents consistent with the interests of Wyoming utility customers and state policy.
• Works with the Regional Economic Analyst and Commissioners on regional issues compiling legal research combined with complex analysis of issues comments filings etc.
• Participates in regional energy issues and other matters ultimately determined by FERC such as regional transmission issues including efforts to establish one or more Regional Transmission Organizations or Independent System Operators in the Western Interconnection regional coordination of transmission and generation planning wholesale energy market structure development as well as system reliability and system resource adequacy evaluation and planning.

PREFERENCES:


Preference will be given to applicants with experience in regional transmission organizations and FERC matters.


KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience with independent case handling responsibility.
• Knowledge of state and federal utility laws rules and regulations and court decisions.
• Intellectual and emotional maturity.
• Ability to successfully manage teams of experts drawn from a variety of professions.
• Knowledge of electric industry operations issues.
• Knowledge of accounting engineering and economics issues in utility regulation and the ability to perform under stress and compressed deadlines.
• Exemplary personal and professional integrity and business ethics.
• Ability to function autonomously.
• Strong logical legal mind with the ability to apply abstract concepts of law to make timely well-reasoned and appropriate decisions to solve problems.
• Ability to work efficiently under time pressures and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Adaptable to changing environments.
• Sound judgment.
• Strong leadership managerial and interpersonal skills including the ability to engender trust respect and confidence.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Knowledge of state and federal laws.
• Knowledge of the interaction between state and federal laws and agencies
  Litigation skill set.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Legal presentation skills.

• Typically the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work.
• Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.

• FLSA: Exempt

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