Operations Scheduler

Xcel Energy Services Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 47,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Transit programs

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking an Operations Scheduler to strategically prioritize regional workloads, build a 0-12+ week book of work, and deliver a compliant, executable 2-week schedule for field teams. You will coordinate with supervisors and stakeholders to maximize productivity and efficiency, ensuring safety and adherence to customer expectations.

In this role you’ll manage resources across regions, optimize staffing, and forecast needs for upcoming periods, driving continuous improvements in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field preferred.
• Five years' experience in construction, design, maintenance or other operations area.
• Utility scheduling/planning experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to schedule and manage work activities to meet requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication and meeting facilitation skills.
• Proficiency with spreadsheet tools and data retrieval from reporting tools.
• Experience with Microsoft products, work management, mapping and scheduling tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan a multi-week region-wide work schedule based on demand and priorities.
• Identify gaps, resolve scheduling conflicts, and recommend resource needs.
• Manage personnel, equipment, and material resources over multi-week horizon.
• Optimize contract/employee resource selection to minimize costs and maximize adherence.
• Forecast resource utilization for upcoming quarters and suggest reallocations.
• Facilitate monthly regional performance review meetings.
• Ensure compliance work is scheduled within required timeframes.
• Coordinate with supervisors and stakeholders to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Lead regular scheduling meetings and realign dates with partners as needed.

Skills

Scheduling

Planning

Analytical skills

Communication

Data retrieval

MS Office

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field

Tools

Spreadsheet tools

Work management systems

Microsoft tools

Scheduling tools

Mapping tools

Job description

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.

Position Summary Standard Operations Position.

Operations Schedulers will strategically prioritize work and determine resource assignments to proactively plan and align a multi-week, rolling schedule to ensure work is performed on-time and within the specified customer, compliance, safety, and operational performance metrics. Schedulers are responsible for maintaining a holistic view of work to be completed at all times to identify and recommend solutions for resolving work capacity issues in the most efficient, cost-effective, safe manner. The objective is to build and manage a 0 - 12+ week book of work to develop and hand off a prioritized, compliant, executable 2 week schedule to the Work Coordination function for final adjustment and execution by field teams. Operations Schedulers will be responsible for creating the schedule for a designated region, function, and/or commodity area.

Essential Responsibilities

• Plan a multi-week region/function/or commodity area-wide work schedule based on evaluation of work demands and work prioritization considering factors such as work types, job priorities, resource availability, customer expectations, permitting requirements, business unit guidelines, and others.
• Planning responsibilities include identification of gaps and authority to resolve scheduling conflicts and making recommendations to management related to schedule and resources needed.
• Manage personnel, equipment, and material resource availability/backlog over a multi-week timeframe and ensure availability of work assignment to crews across the region including decision making to reallocate resources across areas as needed.
• Optimize contract/employee resource selection within scheduling window to minimize costs, and maximize schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, safety and compliance.
• Analyze scheduling and work assignment performance in order to forecast resource utilization for upcoming quarter and identify opportunities for resource reallocations and operational improvements, make recommendations for crew sourcing changes based on forecasts as well as improvements within area of responsibility, and lead process change implementation efforts.
• Facilitate monthly regional/area metric review meetings to evaluate performance.
• Accountable for ensuring all compliance work is scheduled within required timeframes.
• Verify work tasks are assigned to the correct work areas, in the right order, based on provided dependencies.
• Communicate and work effectively with local supervisors and build/leverage strong partnerships with stakeholder groups at a variety of levels to maximize productivity, utilization and operational efficiency of all resources.
• Drive and maintain ownership for regular scheduling meetings.
• Negotiate with key partners to realign dates on projects to ensure customer and compliance dates are met.
• Drive customer satisfaction by establishing and maintaining strong adherence to scheduling processes.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field preferred.
• Five years' experience in construction, design, maintenance or other operations area.
• Utility scheduling/planning experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to schedule and manage work activities in a manner that meets customer and/or internal stakeholder requirements.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, as well as strong written and verbal communication skills including meeting management and facilitation.
• Proficiency with spreadsheet tools.
• Ability to retrieve and manipulate data from reporting tools.
• Demonstrated ability to use software applications which include Microsoft products, work management, mapping and scheduling tools.

Culture and Values

Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Our Values Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe

Our Employee Commitments Work that makes a difference A team you can count of Opportunities to grow Rewards that help you thrive

We provide job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process.

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $33.90 to $54.20 per hour

This position is eligible for the following benefits:

• Spot On Bonus
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Health Care Flexible Spending 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.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Deadline to Apply: 11/06/26

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