AVP, Energy Supply Engineering and Asset Management

About the Role

Provides strategic leadership while managing and overseeing the safe development and delivery of capital projects for generation fleet expansion, life-extension, and asset renewal in support of Xcel Energy's current 8-state service territories. The role includes accountability for a 5-year capital portfolio averaging ~$2.6B in new and renewed generation infrastructure with annual O&M budgets of ~$518M, supporting engineering and asset management of approximately 33 GW of owned and contracted resources across 182 generation sites (coal, natural gas, wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage).

Safe execution of this portfolio requires driving safety and human performance to zero incidents; developing project scopes, schedules, and costs; managing site permitting, environmental review, and land acquisition; overseeing engineering, design, and material procurement; leading project management and controls; coordinating civil, mechanical, and electrical construction; ensuring compliance with environmental, state, federal, NERC, EPA, RTO/ISO, and FERC requirements; and maintaining generation system models, drawings, data, and geospatial information assets.

Ensures closely coordinated planning and safe execution between Plant Operations & Maintenance, Engineering & Construction, and Strategic Planning & Business Operations teams to support the Energy Supply Engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Business Strategy: Develop, recommend, and implement engineering business strategies and associated annual and long-term business plans to meet future needs, including transitioning from baseload coal to flexible gas balancing and integrating renewables. Manage annual and long-term budgets and communicate the organization’s vision, mission, and key objectives.
• Generation Engineering & Asset Renewal Delivery: Oversee a capital portfolio averaging ~$2.6B annually in new generation, life-extension, and asset renewal projects with annual O&M budgets of ~$518M. Key objectives include:
  • Driving safety and human performance to zero incidents
  • Developing project scopes, schedules, and costs
  • Managing siting, environmental permitting, and land acquisition
  • Overseeing engineering, design, material procurement, project management, and project controls
  • Coordinating civil, mechanical, and electrical construction, trucking, and material delivery services
  • Ensuring compliance with environmental, state, federal, NERC, EPA, RTO/ISO, and FERC requirements
  • Maintaining generation assets and system models, drawings, data, and geospatial information
• Labor Strategy Development: Lead the development and implementation of cost-effective labor strategies to align engineering resources with business needs. Develop and maintain partnerships with Xcel Energy Workforce Relations and local union leadership.
• Human Asset Management: Attract, recruit, and retain a highly motivated and engaged engineering workforce. Establish and communicate clear performance expectations and foster a culture of personal accountability, safety, and individual development. Motivate union and contract labor workforces.
• Relationship Management: Act as the Energy Supply Engineering liaison with key Operating Company senior executives across NSP, PSCo, and SPS. Develop and maintain effective relationships with jurisdictional and corporate peers to ensure timely information sharing, business learning, and implementation of common best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Construction Management, or Engineering, or a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge. Engineering degree preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of utility experience, including some combination of generation engineering and operations experience and capital project delivery, with at least 5 years of middle-management experience.
• Experience managing in a union environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to implement cross-organizational, cross-disciplinary projects supporting culture change and business acumen.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Energy Supply/Generation Engineering business functions and understanding of regulatory requirements (NERC, FERC, EPA, state PUCs, RTO/ISO) and their operational implications.
• Proven ability to deliver results.

Pay

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is $199,100.00 to $252,300.00 per year.

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Program
• Long Term Incentive
• 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 plans are subject to change, and Xcel Energy reserves the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans at any time.