**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:**  The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function that may be performed in the job level.  
  
  

-   Serve as counsel in contested utility cases before the Commission, including presenting the OCA’s public interest position through oral and written testimony, legal arguments, cross-examination of witnesses, and pre- and post-hearing briefs.
    
-   Act as case manager for assigned proceedings, ensuring timely preparation and filing of all legal pleadings, testimony, briefs, and procedural documents.
    
-   Coordinate and advise OCA analysts and consultants in developing testimony and exhibits.
    
-   File interrogatories, discovery requests, and depose opposing witnesses in contested proceedings.
    
-   Analyze testimony and exhibits submitted by utilities and other parties. 
    
-   Prepare direct and cross-examination questions to illustrate and argue contested issues. 
    
-   Engage in settlement negotiations, evaluating legal, precedential, and policy implications to ensure outcomes are consistent with the public interest.
    
-   Appeal Commission decisions and represent the OCA in state and federal courts and before federal regulatory agencies and other tribunals.
    
-   Prepare and present legal briefs, petitions, motions, and oral arguments in support of the OCA’s position.
    
-   Provide legal and policy advice to the OCA on proposed Commission rules, legislation, and policies, including drafting comments, proposed rules, and legislation.
    
-   Represent the OCA in Commission rulemaking hearings, legislative committee hearings, and other public forums.
    
-   Analyze and interpret proposed rules and policies issued by federal and state agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Federal Communications Commission, and prepare written comments representing the OCA’s position.  
    

  

## **Qualifications**

  
**PREFERENCES:**   
  

-   Demonstrated experience in utility law, administrative law, and rate case proceedings preferred. 
    
-   Administrative hearing experience preferred.
    
-   Member in good standing of the Wyoming State Bar or ability to obtain membership within six months of hire.

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The Wyoming Legislature created the Wyoming Public Service Commission (PSC) in 1915 to regulate monopoly public utilities that provide service to Wyoming consumers. It is the PSC’s primary responsibility to ensure that Wyoming public utilities provide safe, adequate and reliable service at just and reasonable rates. Three Commissioners, appointed to staggered six-year terms by the Governor and confirmed by the Wyoming Senate, hear and adjudicate cases before them based on the evidence presented in a trial-like hearing, in addition to directing the activities of the agency.  No more than two of the Commissioners can be from any one political party.  For more information about the Commissioners, click here. The Wyoming Legislature approves the PSC budget, which is funded by a small assessment on utility bills, based on gross intrastate utility revenues and calculated in accordance with Wyoming Statute. The Commissioners are supported by Technical Staff, Legal Staff and Facility Engineers, including  accountants, attorneys, economists and engineers.  For an organization chart, click here. The general duties of the PSC cover a variety of functions and duties.  They include, among others: 1) certification of utility service territory; 2) resolutions of complaints against utilities; 3) electric and natural gas utility securities and financing; 4) authorizing major utility construction projects; 5) and utility mergers and reorganization.  Additional duties include pipeline safety under PHMSA, the Call Before You Dig program, administration of the Wyoming Universal Service Fund, and representation of Wyoming regulatory interests in regional and national organizations. The PSC has jurisdiction over four investor owned electric utilities operating in Wyoming and limited jurisdiction over eighteen retail rural electric cooperatives, as well as jurisdiction over eleven natural gas utilities providing retail service to Wyoming.  The PSC also has jurisdiction over twenty-three intrastate pipelines and seven small private water utilities.  In the telecommunications realm the PSC the has jurisdiction over local exchange telephone companies and lesser authority over competitive local exchange companies and 246 resellers of telecommunication services.  Importantly, the PSC has no jurisdiction over broadband, cable or wireless providers.  The Commission does not regulate interstate utility companies, such as pipelines, and it does not regulate wholesale entities like generation and transmission cooperatives that do not sell directly to the public.  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates these activities.

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