Reliability/Plant Engineering Manager
About The Position
Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for. Position Summary Provide visionary leadership and manages Reliability Engineering teams at Xcel Energy's power generating stations across the operating region. Implements the strategic business plan to ensure technical resources provide safe, compliant, market-based reliability at three or more generating stations geographically diverse and exceeds 1500 MWs combined capacity. Provides technical expertise, knowledge, and leadership to plant operations and maintenance on emergent equipment needs and operational risks. Ensures technical issues/problems are resolved in a timely manner. Implements the Long-Term Asset Maintenance (LTAM) strategy at assigned sites. Monitors and supports plant compliance of NERC reliability standard requirements. Maintains control of the site design basis and improvements in plant equipment/systems to maximize value creation. Is accountable for equipment, system, and plant performance results at market critical generating stations. Collaborates with multiple plant leadership and engineering managers to implement common work practices across the region. Provides technical expertise and leads department, business unit, or company initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering is required.
- Minimum 9 years of experience in power plant engineering, original equipment manufacturing (OEM), or equivalent experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment.
Nice To Haves
- Previous management experience.
- Technical knowledge in power plant engineering, design, and technical support.
Responsibilities
- Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs.
- Oversees engineers performing predictive diagnostics, equipment monitoring, problem-solving, failure analytics, and equipment inspections.
- Ensures technical issues/problems are resolved in a timely, efficient, cost-effective manner utilizing available resources.
- Maximizes value creation by identifying and deploying improvement initiatives to decrease the total cost of energy.
- Provides unit specific input into the unit overhaul scope.
- Partners with Projects on overhaul scope changes and overhaul project lead support.
- Provides input on daily/weekly work priorities across the operating region to ensure the LTAM strategies are implemented effectively.
- Ensures fuel type engineering strategies are implemented in daily work.
- Lead engineers to drive quality repairs that instill industry codes, standards, and best practices.
- Identifies and initiates project requests that are aligned with the Business Unit asset strategy.
- Partners with other Energy Supply teams to ensure the most effective implementation of approved projects.
- Ensures plant design basis is controlled and design basis documentation is maintained, including updating drawings, operating manuals, and definitions of operating limits.
- Holds direct reports accountable to the work management process.
- Clearly communicates performance expectations and work assignment priorities.
- Develops a culture of high performance, personal accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Hires, trains, develops, coaches, allocates, and manages performance of staff to ensure personnel are adequately trained to work safely and effectively.
- Serves as budget lead to support balancing regional funding priorities for improvements and overhaul work scope.
- Ensures system event assessments are performed when required.
- Ensure corrective actions are identify and executed to contain, mitigate, and eliminate operational risks.
- Drive standardization across the region and fleet to ensures lessons learned are shared/deployed across the generating plants.
- Monitors and supports plant compliance of NERC reliability standard requirements.
- Anticipates and identifies compliance gaps.
- Identifies and implements improvement plans.
Benefits
- Annual Incentive Program
- Medical/Pharmacy Plan
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
- Transportation Reimbursement Account
- Short-term disability (STD)
- Long-term disability (LTD)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit programs
- Employee recognition program
- Pension
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Holidays
- Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
- Parental Leave Benefit
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
