Xcel Energy

Project Manager

• Provide end-to-end project management, leadership and coordination for large complex projects
• Ensure alignment of financial and operational goals between projects and the business unit
• Provide work team direction to achieve approved project scope
• Develop strategic sequencing and detailed milestone schedules
• Ensure availability or seek out adequate resources for projects
• Manage project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and actuals tracking
• Facilitate RFP and contract management processes
• Ensure timely project closure, payment and reconciliation
• Lead requirements gathering and planning process for approved projects while engaging all key stakeholders
• Independently manage detailed project plans to approved scope
• Identify risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle and create mitigation strategies and contingency plans
• Communicate project status to all levels of the organization and establish effective, collaborative working relationships

Project Manager II – Vegetation Management, Wildfire

Engineer

• Develop and maintain hydraulic models using tools like Synergi Gas
• Integrate data from systems of record (e.g., GIS, SCADA, customer data)
• Troubleshoot discrepancies in models
• Support long-term capacity planning and regulatory filings
• Assist in building technical capabilities and modeling infrastructure
• Provide ongoing technical support for project activities
• Lead small-medium non-critical projects or portions of projects under the direction of higher level engineer/supervisor
• Represent the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects

Gas Modeling Engineer – Staff or Senior

Software Engineer

• Support our Gas Utility within one of our Engineering departments in Denver, CO or St. Paul, MN
• Showcase abilities in Operations support groups
• Project management, pipeline engineering, data cleanup, federal code verification, documentation preparation
• Work with the Engineering staff to support the Transmission Control Center
• Support outage coordination, power flow studies, power system monitoring, and operator training

Engineering Intern, Gas Engineering Team

Network Engineer

• Lead and support solution lifecycle technical activities
• Ensure solutions are designed for great user experience and operational performance
• Lead design, ensuring Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations and Compliance aspects are continuously integrated into solutions
• Provide input to cost and schedule estimation
• Responsible for overall integrity of system design and operation
• Oversee vendor activities
• Conduct peer reviews and approve system changes and technical solution design
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Partner cross-organizationally to drive minimal costs on optimal solutions
• Provide in-depth technical information to stakeholders as needed
• Innovate through usage of industry emerging capabilities and evolving customer needs
• Provide input to strategic roadmap and technical dependencies
• Continuously stay current on, and apply, technical industry knowledge pertaining to the respective domain
• Review solution performance and continually assess health of systems
• Track and drive awareness to operational and technical debt risks
• Provide escalated support to incident and problem management
• Utilize analytics to improve availability, reliability, efficiency and capacity.

Senior IT Network Engineer – SDWAN

Procurement

• Develop and execute sourcing category, supplier, and risk management strategies that align with business stakeholder priorities for key categories
• Lead cross functional teams from the business and Supply Chain to drive successful project and category outcomes/results
• Plan and lead competitive sourcing events using an enterprise-wide approach, incorporating external factors intelligence in support of category strategies
• Develop effective negotiation strategies, plan, and conduct negotiations of commercial terms with suppliers to achieve category objectives
• Lead on-going supplier performance, relationship, and development activities to ensure category strategy adherence
• Develop and execute contracts with key suppliers
• Responsible for managing the staff augmentation managed service providers used by Xcel Energy with budgetary responsibilities in the $175M range.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align business demands, category/contract strategy, and execution
• Perform spend and cost analysis (e.g. total cost of ownership and should cost models) and develop category strategies to achieve maximum value capture
• Complete supplier research and risk profiles while monitoring industry information, external factors, and trends to ensure category strategies are aligned with current best practices
• Implement optimal inventory strategies in conjunction with logistics personnel
• Develop plans with suppliers that support business goals and strategies, while driving continuous improvement and collaboration to strengthen partnerships that bring value to the company and the supplier
• Develop performance-based supplier scorecards
• Monitor, document, and evaluate supplier performance
• Lead the resolution of disputes with suppliers
• Review, analyze, verify, and negotiate contract changes or additional work orders
• Monitor compliance across buying channel, supplier, and contract purchasing execution
• Manage contractor claims to resolution and successfully minimize overall impact to cost and schedule
• Ensure suppliers comply with contract terms and meet all commitments
• Develop and communicate contract summary and implementation plans
• Develop risk management strategies and apply understanding of underlying principles of contract law to administer all category contract agreements

Senior Category Manager – Staff Augmentation

• Support our Gas Utility, specifically, within one of our Engineering departments
• Create budget reporting for large scale capital budgets
• Support business decisions tied to financial goals and KPIs
• Support direct large-scale projects from a financial aspect
• Support regulatory processes in project tracking

Business Intern, Gas Engineering

Manager

• Manage a team to oversee customer products, solutions and/or programs to meet corporate objectives, including customer satisfaction and delivery of intended outcomes.
• Deliver projects, solutions and objectives to meet goals.
• Lead, set priorities and assign work to direct reports for maximum efficiency and to meet goals.
• Obtain resources and foster positive relationships with internal and external clients.
• Ensure effective application of business processes and guide continuous improvements.
• Finalize goals and plans with direct reports.
• Provide expertise on all aspects of the business, including target markets, product launches, advertising and promotion plans, customer management, pricing, channels, strategic planning, data analytics, operations, and/or budget management.
• Drive and champion business needs.
• Manage group to provide requirements and market information for business cases.
• Responsible for hiring, developing, training, coaching, counseling and rewarding a group of professional employees.
• Accountable for customer product goal attainment, tracking and reporting.

Manager – Energy Efficiency Program Delivery

• Work with our project lead engineers designing and managing capital projects throughout the Energy Supply SPS fleet
• Coordinate with plant personnel to develop the project Scope of Work
• Determine technical specifications, evaluate vendor bids
• Generate budget and schedule estimates
• Oversee installation/commissioning/startup tasks
• Complete drawing and technical document reviews/updates
• Lead small capital projects at power plants
• Develop scopes of work for capital projects
• Perform engineering analysis on assigned capital projects
• Develop schedules and budgets for capital projects
• Communicate technical details to vendors and other business units

Engineering Intern, Capital Projects Team

Operations

• Perform a wide range of field work support activities such as budgeting, purchasing, inventory control, payroll, planning, scheduling, plant operational reporting, and general administrative activities
• Ensure a high level of accuracy within all operating systems to support data integrity and process adherence
• Determine service and material procurement methods based on parameters: department needs, stock/non-stock, source, cost, inventory levels, date needed, vendor and plant contracts
• Interface with sourcing department to negotiate competitive bid/process for materials/services
• Creation of Request for Proposal and Purchase Requisitions and expedite purchase orders
• Receipt for materials and services and approve for payment of invoices in a timely manner
• Gather budget data from plant personnel, enter 2 yr O&M and Capital budget
• Explain deviation from budget and update forecasts
• Manage expenditures based on budget
• Assist with the outage coordination and scheduling
• Perform data entry and copying of drawings and forms
• Assist in the tracking of safety training completion

Administrative Operations Support

• Works with transmission planning and substation/transmission engineering group to scope and execute capital projects.
• Maintain compliance with several NERC PRC Standards.
• Support other departments (ie planning, operations, and field engineering) in day-to-day operations of the electric transmission and distribution systems.
• Perform work that involves conventional types of plans, investigations, surveys, structures or equipment with relatively few complex features.
• May lead small-medium, non-critical projects and/or provide field oversight of critical projects under direction of higher-level engineer or supervisor.
• Support the development of technical documentation (including designs, testing, calculations, reports, standards, etc.).
• Provide ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory, etc.
• Coordinate/leads projects or portions of projects under the direction of a higher-level engineer or supervisor.
• Support bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that support the preparation of bid documents.
• Effectively exchanges information in all formats on matters having a wide range of importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
• May coordinate the work of interns, drafters, technicians, and/or others and provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Perform electric transmission/distribution event investigation and corrective action plan as necessary.
• Responsible for company compliance with a variety of NERC PRC standards.

System Protection Engineer – Entry, Staff, Senior

• Responsible for the maintenance and coordination of daily work plans that effectively and efficiently use resources with emphasis on safety, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance
• Create and maintain a daily work plan and daily crew roster; adjust planned schedules daily and assign crews for priority tasks based on resource availability and real-time progress
• Generate work orders and perform final review and closeout of completed work packets; complete job closeout within various systems
• Analyze exception reports to verify labor and equipment charged to each work, job, trouble and miscellaneous order
• Support the department by requesting locates, ordering materials, coordinating other utilities, or scheduling specialized equipment associated with daily operations
• Maintain data integrity within systems used to manage daily work execution, asset management and scheduling activities; reconcile completed work packets to eliminate discrepancies
• Provide backup to other Operations Work Coordinator and/or Associate positions and work effectively with local supervisors and stakeholder groups to maximize productivity
• (Senior) Review approved incoming designed work, maintain visibility into real-time queue, coordinate equipment and materials, and ensure work acceptance and job readiness
• (Senior) Identify necessary project changes, manage work rejections, triage additional work requests, and communicate schedule updates to frontline leaders, crews and stakeholders

Operations Work Coordinator – Entry or Senior Level

Mechanical Engineer

• Position at Xcel Energy located in Lubbock, Pampa, or Seminole, TX, on a hybrid (3 days in the office per week) schedule
• Entry: develop technical expertise, limited-scope engineering work, may lead small-medium non-critical projects, field oversight under supervision
• Staff: independently determines and develops approaches, supports development of technical documentation, may lead small-medium non-critical projects, provide work direction to others
• Senior: applies extensive technical expertise, leads multiple projects, represents organization as prime technical contact, develops new/improved techniques and procedures
• Essential responsibilities include technical documentation, procedure development, field engineering oversight, project coordination, bidding/evaluation support, communication across organizations, mentoring, budgeting/estimating/forecasting support

Electric Distribution Design Engineer – Entry, Staff, Senior

• Project Description: Work with our project lead engineers designing and managing capital projects throughout the Energy Supply SPS fleet. Coordinate with plant personnel to develop the project Scope of Work, determine technical specifications, evaluate vendor bids, generate budget and schedule estimates, oversee installation/commissioning/startup tasks, and complete drawing and technical document reviews/updates.
• This internship will provide hands on engineering design and project management experience in power plant capital projects and would potentially lead to a full-time position with our team following graduation.
• Typical intern responsibilities may include but are not limited to: Lead small capital projects at power plants. Develop scopes of work for capital projects. Perform engineering analysis on assigned capital projects. Develop schedules and budgets for capital projects. Communicate technical details to vendors and other business units.
• This position is for an immediate start date.
• These positions may have the possibility to extend beyond the internship’s initial term based on the candidate’s successful performance and Xcel’s business needs.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Deadline to Apply: 08/21/25
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