Senior Manager Operations; Comanche Plant

Xcel Energy(NASDAQ:XEL) is a leading energy provide rand Fortune 500company,dedicated toserving millions of electricity andnaturalgascustomersacross eight states:

Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota,New Mexicoand Texas.

We make energy work better forourcustomers, 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.

Standard Operations Position. Responsible for leading a safe, high performing operations team which may include multiple levels, functions, facilities, and/or commodities while driving the efficient use of resources. Establish a culture of process adherence and continuous improvement. Effectively lead and implement daily operations, cyclical processes and special projects. Set and achieve business area goals that align with corporate and business unit strategies, goals and objectives, as well as process and performance, customer satisfaction, and reliability metrics.

• Safety:
  Provide visible safety leadership and drive continuous improvements to achieve desired safety goals. Develop strategies to achieve safety plan results. Oversee and develop safety leaders to ensure a safety conscious work environment. Contribute to site safety performance improvement by holding workers, supervisors, and self accountable for safety.
• Operational Effectiveness:
  Manage team performance through focus on operational efficiency metric trends across areas of responsibility. Ensure and reinforce the importance of process adherence and data integrity. Drive continuous improvement efforts to define and shape opportunities that drive customer satisfaction and reliability.
• Business Optimization & Strategy:
  Achieve safety, productivity, customer service, and reliability targets by conducting and implementing the strategic planning for area of responsibility. Develop and effectively manage organization budgets and business plans. Identify and implement process improvements. Ensure execution of plans/metrics.
• Talent Management:
  Establish workforce/development planning practices to build strong, competitive teams and effectively manage performance. Select, optimize, plan and direct the workforce used to provide safe, reliable, compliant operations, and ensure stakeholder satisfaction. Serve as primary contact for issue resolution involving labor relations.
• Relationship Management:
  Build and maintain effective internal relationships. Foster an environment of collaboration within own organization and across stakeholders. Design and develop solutions that meet customer/stakeholder needs. Remove obstacles and provide assistance to team members to improve project and work performance.
• Regulatory & Compliance:
  Manage and guide the execution and documentation of work in accordance with Xcel Energy policies and procedures, labor agreements, and regulatory standards. Ensure crews are qualified to perform work responsibilities. Establish, monitor, and track processes to ensure regulatory…