Natural Gas Materials Engineer; Entry Senior, or Principal

St Paul, Minnesota, 55109, United States of America

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.

The below job summary and responsibilities reflect the entry engineer level role. The successfully chosen candidate will be placed at a level that is commensurate with their skills and experience as different skills and/or experience will be required at the staff, senior and principal engineer levels.

Position Summary

The Natural Gas Materials Engineer develops, maintains, and improves engineering standards, specifications, procedures, and technical guidance that support the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of natural gas facilities. The position specializes in the evaluation, qualification, implementation, and ongoing performance of materials and equipment used in natural gas transmission and distribution systems.

The engineer evaluates technical requirements, industry standards, regulations, materials, equipment, technologies, manufacturer information, test results, operating experience, and work practices to determine their application to company operations. The engineer identifies risks and improvement opportunities and develops specifications, standards, technical controls, and recommendations to improve safety, reliability, compliance, and material performance.

The position supports new material and manufacturer qualification, material testing, faulty-material and failure investigations, material standardization, and technical evaluation of product or manufacturing changes. The engineer works with Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Supply Chain, Training, manufacturers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to support risk-informed decisions and consistent implementation of approved materials and company standards.

The engineer may lead technical projects, investigations, material evaluations, testing programs, and continuous-improvement initiatives and serves as a technical resource for gas transmission, distribution, and related operations.

Essential Responsibilities

• Uses and applies technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to perform activities/assignments of limited scope.
• Supports the development of technical documentation (including but not limited to designs, testing, calculations, reports, standards, etc.) Utilizes and may assist with the development of procedures.
• Provides ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory, etc. May provide field engineering oversight for activities such as commissioning, testing, inspections etc. under direct supervision.
• Coordinates/leads projects or portions of projects (including phases such as research, design, equipment selection, procurement support, installation and commissioning), under the direction of a higher level engineer or supervisor.
• Under the direction of a higher level engineer/supervisor, supports bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that support the preparation of bid documents. In completing segments of technical evaluations for proposals may need to effectively communicate with other business areas of the company following appropriate processes.
• Effectively exchanges information in all formats, on matters having a wide range of importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
• May…