Generation Development Project Estimator

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states:
Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition.

We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Generation Development Project Estimator Position Summary The Generation Development Project Estimator role is responsible for creating and managing new power generation project cost estimates, developing and maintaining estimating tools such as complex spreadsheets or commercial project management platforms, maintaining databases of prior cost information, and supporting project managers in creating cost estimates for new billion-dollar-class power generation projects. Project types may include renewable, thermal, and emerging energy technology power plants.

The scope of the estimating work involves whole-project development estimates including costs and payment schedules for major equipment contracts, EPC and construction services, interconnection, land and permitting, consultants, indirect and owner’s costs, contingencies, etc., both for total estimate rollups and cash flows integrated with the project master schedule. Work with development project managers to create quantitative risk registers and risk-weighted contingency estimates.

The role is not required to perform detailed construction and material takeoff estimates but may be involved in reviewing such estimates provided by 3rd-party EPCs or construction contractors. This position collaborates with development project managers, schedulers, supply chain, vendor representatives, and Generation Development leadership to identify requirements, consider alternatives, and implement best practices. The Generation Development Project Estimator directly supports development of confident, high-accuracy competitive bids for new power generation projects.

Essential Responsibilities Provides ongoing support for the optimal performance of project management systems. Demonstrates super user capabilities with project management systems. Maintains a thorough knowledge of new and innovative techniques in the project management, scheduling and cost controls fields. As a business area resource, they shall represent the business area in project management application meetings and in efforts to promote standard project management and controls practices throughout the company.

Provides daily system administration activities for specific department project management applications (i.e. Primavera P6, enterprise project portfolio management applications, or specific cost control applications).Responsible for project management application launches, training plans and execution, continuous improvement, and change management. Develop quantitative metrics to measure the accessibility, reliability, ease of use, and actual use of the…