Xcel Energy

Project Manager

• Provide end-to-end project management, leadership and coordination for multiple, large complex projects or a transformational project work stream
• Manage alignment of financial, compliance, safety, customer and operational goals between/among projects and the BU or corporation
• Lead the project team to achieve all critical financial, timing, operational, and change management metrics
• Ensure effective sourcing, management and engagement of all resources
• Provide deliberate and organized project management support to plan and develop new dispatchable generation projects and large-scale improvement projects at existing generation plants
• Focus on project origination and conceptual design leading to technology selection, optimized cost estimates, schedules, preliminary technical designs, major supply contracts, and EPC contracts
• Plan the development process by leveraging corporate development, regulatory, project controls, environmental, technical, supply chain, and other disciplines while driving the project forward with cost and schedule control
• Collaborate and lead high-impact conversations with both internal executives and outside parties.

Project Manager III

Operations

• Provide oversight of Energy Supply programs and projects that have corporate and strategic implications over power generation initiatives.
• Manage the development of options to resolve strategic issues of importance to the business unit and the corporation and coordinate development and implementation of the selected options.
• Manage a coordinated decision process and represent operational interests in outage scheduling; energy marketing interface (capacity, energy, ancillary services, regulatory impacts, ISO/control area issues, etc.); fuels interface (fuel options, transportation, inventory, contract negotiations, regulatory oversight for on-site solid waste disposal facilities); regulatory impacts to operation of control area/ISO issues; portfolio and/or asset management; and other topics.
• Manage generation asset operational excellence/operating infrastructure improvement through creation/review of standardized operational procedures, processes, policies, monitoring, reporting, etc.)
• Facilitate the development, tracking, trending, analysis, and reporting of generation asset operational performance indicators, includes work time metric tracking and monitoring overtime work.
• Perform complex data, economic, or financial analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Coordinate with generation asset leaders on the planning and implementation of operational strategies and special projects that link to Energy Supply and Xcel Energy goals/objectives.
• Provide rate case preparation/response support, including drafting testimony.
• Support organizational direction to ensure implementation of operational/plant initiatives to improve profitability, competitiveness, and life-cycle management of generation assets.
• Lead the implementation and ensure accountability for root cause analysis results across operational organizations.
• Coordinate and evaluate operational input for contract strategies (labor, purchasing, services, etc.) and various contingency planning requirements.

Principal Operations Support Consultant

Platform Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain core cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and shared platform services.
• Develop secure, automated, and auditable environments using Terraform and Infrastructure‑as‑Code best practices.
• Lead platform and system design activities in alignment with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Compliance, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver high‑impact platform capabilities that increase reliability, scalability, performance, and developer velocity.
• Contribute to initiatives in containerization, observability, cost optimization, and AI platform enablement, while influencing architectural direction and platform strategy across the organization.
• Operate and optimize AWS environments to ensure availability, performance, efficiency, and capacity readiness.
• Continuously monitor and maintain system health while identifying technical debt and operational risks.
• Troubleshoot complex distributed system issues across compute, storage, networking, containers, and identity layers.
• Support daily cloud operations including incident response, problem management, scalability improvements, and quota/capacity planning.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and compliance controls in partnership with security and operations teams.
• Ensure all infrastructure follows cloud security best practices, including least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability handling, and policy enforcement.
• Stay current with emerging trends in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, DevOps, security, and infrastructure automation, and apply this knowledge to continuously evolve the platform.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, and ECS/EKS.
• Provide technical leadership and introduce innovative ideas that strengthen platform reliability, reduce cost to deliver, improve developer experience, and advance sustainability across the cloud ecosystem.
• Mentor and guide engineers to promote strong engineering practices and operational excellence.
• Conduct peer reviews, approve technical designs, and provide clear technical guidance to stakeholders.
• Partner effectively across architecture, product, data, platform, and security teams to deliver cohesive and efficient solutions.
• Oversee vendor activities related to the design, delivery, and operation of cloud services, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and platform objectives.

Senior IT Engineer – Platform Engineering

Compliance

• Work directly with senior management to develop regulatory case filings and strategies
• Consult with subject matter experts to develop filings and strategies consistent with company goals
• Communicate and work effectively with regulatory case management teams
• Prepare supporting testimony in regulatory proceedings and legislative hearings
• Coordinate regulatory compliance activities in assigned jurisdictions
• Develop, compile and edit regulatory case filings
• Provide clear written explanations of complex issues
• Ensure documents conform to style, tone and formatting conventions
• Advocate the company's positions with regulators and stakeholders
• Support multiple projects while delivering high quality work product
• Communicate regularly with senior management and internal customers
• Assist with the drafting of discovery responses

Regulatory Policy Specialist

Director

• Supports business side efforts for GIS consolidation and technology related projects.
• Partners with senior leaders to drive integrated process, data and technology improvements.
• Accountable for advancing the integrity, quality and function of business unit-related processes, asset data, and applications.
• Regularly measures process effectiveness, efficiency, adherence, and data integrity.
• Develops, implements and manages the mission critical enterprise databases and supporting systems.

Director, Geospatial Asset Data – GIS Consolidation

Analyst

• Provide oversight, guidance, and leadership in the development, and implementation and monitoring of mandatory Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) and North American Electric (NERC) Reliability Standards.
• Assist management and business areas in preparation for external compliance evaluations as well as conduct of internal compliance evaluations.
• Engage with internal personnel, industry stakeholders, Regional Entities, TSA and NERC in addressing issues relating to standards and compliance policy.
• Coordinate, oversee and manage activities relating to the development of voting positions and submittal of votes.
• Develop, administer, and implement process to manage scheduling and tracking of internal compliance spot checks and reviews.
• Maintain processes and procedures owned by compliance program relating to relationships between functional units and other entities within the company.
• Manage and coordinate compliance program processes associated with the monitoring, governance and oversight of internal NERC and TSA compliance activities.
• Track and monitor progress of internal and external regulatory commitments and ensure quality and timely completion of deliverables.
• Ensure detailed cause analysis is performed and appropriate remediation actions are taken to address any conditions of potential non-compliance to a regulatory standard or requirement.
• Lead and coordinate the conduct of internal compliance reviews, spot checks and audits to evaluate compliance with mandatory reliability standards.
• Manage and coordinate internal activities associated with development of mandatory reliability standards.
• Actively monitor and engage with FERC, NERC, MRO and industry stakeholder groups on standards development topics for awareness and incorporation into internal standards development evaluations.
• Manage and coordinate internal activities associated with implementation of mandatory reliability standards.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication of pending and actual regulatory approvals to all appropriate parties.
• Provide direction and oversight of the development of implementation plans and milestones reviewing for completeness and sufficiency.
• Track implementation activities to ensure timely compliance, evaluate overall compliance readiness and periodically report status to management.
• Act as primary point of contact between Xcel Energy and external collaborative groups on TSA, NERC and regional standards development, implementation, compliance monitoring and enforcement activities.
• Participate in various collaborative groups to represent company positions and to obtain industry perspective through peer sharing and benchmarking activities.
• Attend NERC and regional compliance meetings, as needed, to negotiate for company positions and to obtain compliance information for internal use.
• Provide timely and comprehensive communication of relevant information to internal stakeholders.
• Obtain leadership positions on external committees to influence regional groups for the benefit of the company.
• Manage program compliance documentation and associated internal controls.
• Direct functional units to update, enhance, clarify and improve internal controls and documentation as needed.
• Maintain compliance program data current and accurate within the eGRC system.
• Establish and maintain high level of proficiency with eGRC solutions supporting the compliance programs.

Senior Reliability Assurance Analyst

• Serve as the senior functional authority guiding end-to-end solution strategy across multiple domains or modules.
• Lead complex blueprinting, solution evaluation, and functional architecture decisions with enterprise-level impact.
• Define functional standards, integration patterns, and configuration governance across systems and workstreams.
• Evaluate cross-functional impacts, dependencies, and future-state business process implications.
• Anticipate functional risks, technical constraints, and operational challenges; recommend sustainable solution options.
• Partner with enterprise architects and solution architects to align functional design with enterprise and technology roadmaps.
• Lead functional testing strategy and validate design integrity across workstreams.
• Provide senior oversight during cutover, go-live, and stabilization for complex functional issues.

Principal Technical-Functional Consultant, Transformation, SAP IS-U

• Perform a wide range of field work support activities, including the processing of completed work orders
• Perform administrative support functions such as data entry, time reporting reconciliation, expense reporting, customer service, and general office management
• Ensure a high level of accuracy within all operating systems to support data integrity and process adherence
• Perform data entry and copying of drawings and forms
• Assist with audits and compliance activities
• Provide assistance during emergency operations

Operations Specialist

Consultant

• Identify value streams across customer experience, operational efficiency and risk reduction for CIS program.
• Define and track KPIs aligned to each value stream.
• Quantify and monitor value through program phases (e.g., baseline vs actual).
• Publish executive readouts comparing the forecasted vs. realized value.
• Serve as a strategic advisor for business functional teams by providing deep subject matter expertise, operational insights and high impact process recommendations across business functions.
• Identify, assess and communicate broad operational impacts of proposed changes, proactively addressing enterprise level risks and misalignments.
• Partner with cross functional leaders to ensure end-to-end business process integration and customer centric operational continuity.
• Champion enterprise continuous improvement by elevating systemic pain points and shaping long-term design decisions.
• Lead development of enterprise performance metrics, reporting frameworks and post implementation value realization measures.

Principal Business Functional Consultant, Transformation – Value Realization

Manager

• Lead the deployment and maintenance of the Management Requirements and 4 Plays: Visualization, Performance Reviews, Problem-Solving, and Standardization.
• Drive the use of rally rooms and operating boards to standardize work.
• Utilize PDCA/A3 to drive continuous improvement based on business area goals cascaded down through the organization.
• Responsible for providing process expertise and analysis on issues through coaching and facilitation of teams.
• Act as a key liaison between the business area leadership, shared services, and One Way office.
• Communicate and report out on the status of business area improvements.
• Establish effective, collaborative working relationships with front line through senior leadership to maximize project efficiency, responsiveness, and resource allocation.
• Lead business area continuous improvement projects utilizing continuous improvement methodology to deliver substantial improvements in identified areas.
• Support process level metrics and influence accountability across process streams by supporting use of tools such as rally rooms, continuous improvement projects.
• Provide financial management of projects including budgeting, forecasting, actuals tracking, and savings implications.

Associate Engagement Manager, Engagement Manager, Senior Engagement Manager

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. Position will have budgetary responsibility for contact spend in the 10s of millions of dollars.
• Develop and implement enterprise-wide category strategies to optimize cost and improve operations in line with sourcing best practices.
• 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.
• In conjunction with logistics personnel, implement optimal inventory strategies.
• Lead multiple strategic supplier performance, relationship and development management efforts focused on improving total cost of ownership, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• 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.
• Lead negotiations of commercial terms to establish contracts that support category strategies while meeting business requirements, including limits of liability and general terms & conditions.
• 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 in conjunction with Legal and Security teams, apply understanding of underlying principles of contract law to administer all category contract agreements.
• In collaboration with business area management, manage and define the risk elements of the contract Lead cross functional teams from the business and Supply Chain to drive successful project and category outcomes/results.
• Create and manage project plans to implement category strategies. Interacts with business leadership to integrate sourcing and business project plans.
• Manage Supply Chain, business, and supplier continuous improvement efforts. Lead change management efforts.