E&C Engineer

Overview

Plant Fleet based engineering role to support Xcel’s energy supply projects group to help manage capital projects at the power plants across the region. This resource would be responsible for managing all emergent capital projects at the plant as well as supporting larger base and major capital projects. This resource would support reliability engineering in helping develop scopes and justifications for projects and putting those through Xcel’s emergent capital request system/process and would be responsible for managing all the projects.

This resource could be responsible for upwards of 20 small projects going on at one time in addition to supporting some of the larger base capital projects. True title is E&C Engineer; however, title is a bit misleading. Really looking for someone with an engineering degree/background, however, will mostly be a project manager.

• Be onsite 3 days per week or 5 days a week during project execution phase.
• Work with operations and reliability engineering to learn plant systems and operation.
• Plan future work to keep the plants reliable.
• Attend POD meetings, collaborate with operations and reliability personnel, oversee contractors performing/executing on the projects in the field.
• Be responsible for all administrative project paperwork, such as developing scopes of work, technical specifications, helping get quotes for equipment, bidding out if necessary and coordinating material deliveries and installation with the plant.

• Ability to multi-task and juggle several tasks without sacrificing quality; takes initiative; teamwork; interpersonal/communication skills.
• Experience with cradle to grave project management.
• Prior experience in manufacturing/plant environment (e.g., power plant).
• Has taken the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) exam or is eligible to take it (preferred, not required).
• Experience managing contractors; project management and project plan development, charters, managing budgets and money.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (any discipline related to plant work: mechanical/electrical/civil) or related fields; willing to consider other engineering fields as well.

EEO:
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