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Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.

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Specialist, Enterprise Security Operations, Generation

NRG is leading a customer-driven change in the U.S. energy industry by delivering cleaner and smarter energy choices, while building on the strength of the nation’s largest and most diverse competitive power portfolio. A Fortune 500 company, we create value through reliable and efficient conventional generation while driving innovation in carbon capture technology and customer-centric energy and security solutions. Our retail lines serve almost 7 million residential and commercial customers throughout the country.

Overview:

The Specialist, Enterprise Security Operations - Generation will be essential to the Enterprise Security function of a Fortune 500 company. This position, in conjunction with the Enterprise Security Team Management, will work with primarily with our Generation Fleet Leadership in order to implement and drive strategic mitigations developed to maintiain the comprehensive security protectioons of our critical infratrusture assets. This role will perform frequent assessments, engage with our Programs team on technological improvement and inovation, leverage risk based security standards, processes to ensure implementation at site. Additionally, this position will deliver various security and metric reports reports, coordinate and deliver site level training, integrate with local authorities, perform detailed investigations and support other activities of the Enterprise Security group.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Complete compliance and metrics reports for all applicable security & crisis management requirements.
• Key stakeholder in maintaining our holistic security management system and implementing standards at all sites.
• Develop mitigations based on a reports from a comprehensive OSINT/Intelligence program.
• Assist in development of Security training material.
• Establish communication and coordinate on project plans for key program stakeholders at sites.
• Key contributor to improvement of enterprise wide risk based security standards.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice or related field is required.

• Minimum 5 years advanced security management experience (military, government, law enforcement).

• Experience in building risk based security practices and standards and successfully integrating them within the business. 
• A solid understanding of regulatory programs such as NERC-CIP, CFATS, and MTSA. 
• Experience in industrial/critical infrastructure security, preferred.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• The ability to build relationships across various levels of leadership and communicate with authorities.

• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Solid initiative and follow-through, with ability to overcome hurdles and keep projects moving despite limited resources.
• Exceptional teamwork, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams on transformational new ideas that disrupt status quo. 
• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated expertise in communicating new, out-of-the-box ideas.

Working Conditions:
This role is preferred to reside in our Houston offices with an expectation of approximately 45% travel. The primary work will be performed at our Generation fleet and requires the ability to be outdoors in environments that often experience adverse weather conditions (heat, dust, rain, wind, snow, etc.) and some investigations may be time sensitive where the person in this role may be exposed to adverse weather environments. This role may require work after normal working hours, at night, on weekends or holidays. Ability to travel extensively on short notice is required.
Employee is required to respond by telephone or in person during on-duty and off-duty hours.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability.

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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Human Resources.

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NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

EEO is the Law Poster (The poster can be found at

Official description on file with Talent.

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