Manager, Operations

Public Service Co. of Colorado; United States; On-site; USD 112,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Pension

401(k) plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Holidays

Job summary

Xcel Energy seeks a senior safety leader to drive a strong safety culture across utility operations. You will partner with Safety Consultants to implement continuous improvements, lead safety meetings, audits, train staff, and investigate incidents.

Responsibilities include expanding crew effectiveness, managing performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating with bargaining units and departments to meet reliability and financial goals.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in design, construction, operations, engineering or maintenance of utility systems/power generation plants or related industries/fields or equivalent.
• Associates or technical degree preferred.
• Operational knowledge of work and asset management and analytical/reporting applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible safety leadership and contribute to a strong safety culture.
• Drive real-time safety accountability through meetings, briefs, audits, training and investigations.
• Evaluate team performance using operational metrics and ensure process adherence and data integrity.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes.
• Provide leadership over crew effectiveness, quality and productivity.
• Oversee compliance with Xcel Energy policies, labor agreements and regulatory standards.

Skills

Safety leadership

Supervisory experience

Utilities knowledge

Bargaining-unit experience

Coal generation experience

Education

Associates or technical degree

Apprentice program completion

Job description

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide visible safety leadership and actively contribute to the creation, implementation, and continuous improvement of a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with Safety Consultant.
• Drive real time safety accountability by engaging the team through safety meeting participation, job briefs, audits, training, accident investigation/event assessment, and job site observations.
• Business Optimization & Strategy: Evaluate team performance based on operational efficiency, reliability and quality metrics and take corrective action where appropriate, focusing on process adherence and data integrity.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through effective collaboration and expectation setting.
• Operational Effectiveness: Provide direct leadership over crew effectiveness, quality and productivity.
• Maintain a continuous presence in the work environment and assist in removing barriers with pre-requisites, materials, stakeholder, and other issues.
• Ensure correct crew composition and skills are in place to meet operational, reliability, customer and financial objectives.
• Assist in preparing resource forecasts and providing input to longer-term work plans.
• Talent Management: Recruit talented employees, participate in workforce and development planning efforts, establish clear expectations, and effectively and manage performance.
• Provide training, coaching and oversight and drive employee engagement.
• Effectively represent the organization in bargaining unit discussions, grievances, corrective actions and development.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain effective internal and external relationships with areas that support Operations.
• Provide strong working knowledge of necessary systems and resources to assist employees, other work groups, and/or customers and stakeholders.
• Enable crews to provide solutions to issues and improve customer/stakeholder satisfaction.
• Regulatory & Compliance: Oversee and coordinate the execution and documentation of work in accordance with Xcel Energy policies and procedures, labor agreements, and regulatory standards.
• Support and ensure required compliance and technical training is completed.
• Establish, monitor, and track processes to ensure regulatory compliance.

Minimum Requirements

• Five or more years in design, construction, operations, engineering or maintenance of utility systems/power generation plants or related industries/fields or equivalent.
• Associates or technical degree preferred.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in specific functional area including standards, procedures, and applicable government/environmental regulations.
• Operational knowledge of work and asset management and analytical/reporting applications.
• Effective change leader with demonstrated ability to effectively communicate company and business area strategies and objectives to a variety of stakeholders.
• Proven results at achieving performance and operational metrics and driving process adherence.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Three years of supervisory experience
• Associate or technical degree
• Completion of an approved apprentice program in a related craft
• Understanding of utility finance
• Experience working as or with bargaining-unit employees
• Experience at a coal-generation facility

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $112,200.00 to $159,400.00 per year.

This position is eligible for the following benefits:

• Annual Incentive Program
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
• Transportation Reimbursement Account
• Short-term disability (STD)
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit programs
• Employee recognition program
• Pension
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
• Parental Leave

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

Deadline to Apply: 09/27/26

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [e-mail].

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