Director, Enterprise System Standards & Planning Council

Xcel Energy; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 148,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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)

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Senior Leader to direct the Enterprise System Standards within Integrated System Planning. You will guide cross-functional teams across Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Gas, DERs, storage, and controls, and chair the Planning Council’s charter and cadence to shape long-term strategy.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in utilities with strong leadership, governance, and regulatory acumen, plus experience in scenario-based planning and cross-commodity portfolio

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years' utility industry experience, including 5+ years of leadership experience in strategy, standards, or integrated planning.
• Demonstrated expertise across two or more of: generation, transmission, distribution, gas.
• Experience with scenario-based planning, futures methodologies, and cross-commodity portfolio evaluation.
• Proven ability to design and operate cross-functional governance forums, including charter, decision rights, cadence, and action management.
• Strong financial and regulatory acumen, including familiarity with rate case and long-term planning deliverables.
• Demonstrated organizational, leadership, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence senior executives and multidisciplinary teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Direct the cross-functional and cooperative development, publication, and refinement of enterprise System Standards, including system intent, capability and performance targets, resilience criteria, and the build-it-once design basis.
• Conduct the multidisciplinary Planning Council as its operational lead, charter, cadence, agenda pipeline, decision materials, minutes, and action tracking for executive leaders.
• Accountable for the System Standards work cycle end-to-end: signal intake, translation into planning-grade standards, governance approval, integration into ISP products, KPI tracking, and scheduled refresh.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts, economists and consultants; establish clear RACI and bench strength.
• Partner across ISP units to align standards with objectives, regional needs, and regulatory expectations; benchmark against peer utilities.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Governance forums

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Regulatory acumen

Communication skills

Utilities industry experience

Scenario planning

Cross-commodity knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

PD Tree

KPIs

Management-of-change

Job description

Xcel Energy is seeking a Senior Leader to direct the Enterprise System Standards within Integrated System Planning. You will guide cross-functional teams across Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Gas, DERs, storage, and controls, and chair the Planning Council’s charter and cadence to shape long-term strategy.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in utilities with strong leadership, governance, and regulatory acumen, plus experience in scenario-based planning and cross-commodity portfolio