Plant Planner

Xcel Energy; Hydro (KY); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension/401(k)

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Transit programs

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a hands-on maintenance planner for its standard operations role. This position supports maintenance planning, outages, and cost controls across a multi-state utility and a hybrid work environment.

The role emphasizes coordinating contractors, developing schedules, and delivering monthly reports while managing budgets and ensuring safe, compliant operations.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of power plant experience or equivalent in heavy industry.
• Formal relevant technical education and/or military/service/training may substitute for years of experience up to four.
• Understanding of maintenance and operations practices and procedures.
• Good communication skills both oral and written; leadership and human relations experience.
• Demonstrate ability to lead people and manage projects; strong computer skills including Microsoft Office; knowledge of Lockout/Tagout; budgeting and cost control preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plans daily and weekly maintenance work; creates and prioritizes work orders, checks parts/material availability, develops schedules for maintenance crews.
• Oversees overhauls and outages; manages contracts, orders parts, updates schedules, tracks progress, reallocates resources during outages.
• Owns maintenance processes, trending, and tracking programs; supports engineering and plant systems.
• Prepares monthly maintenance and outage reports; tracks backlog and re-works; prepares fuel and other monthly reports as needed.
• Plans large maintenance projects; estimates cost/resources; evaluates contractor proposals; coordinates site for contractor work.
• Develops cost estimates for outages and large equipment repair jobs; assists in preparing plant budget.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Microsoft Office

Budgeting and cost control

Maintenance planning

Power plant experience

Outage scheduling

Lockout/Tagout

Contract management

Education

Technical education / military service

Tools

SAP Work Order Management

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. Assembles, groups, and prioritizes work orders, orders materials and parts, assigns long-term and near-term schedule dates for maintenance crews, and assigns work order operations to work orders. Selects and manages contractors, assists in developing the critical path for overhauls and outages, and tracks completion. Prepares monthly maintenance and various equipment reports as required. Develops cost estimates for outages and large projects, and assists in developing plant budget. Estimates labor requirements on equipment repairs, tracks actual time spent, and effectively manages cost. Tracks backlog and maintenance re-works. Develops and implements maintenance procedures and programs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Plans daily and weekly maintenance work. Creates and prioritizes work orders, checks on availability of parts and materials, and develops work schedules for maintenance crews. Assigns work order operations to work orders.

• Plans and oversees overhauls and outages. Performs long term and near term outage scheduling and critical path functions to reduce the duration of planned outages. Schedules and manages contractors, orders parts, develops and updates work schedules, and tracks work completion during the overhaul/outage. Reallocates resources as needed during outages to meet business needs. Prepares final outage report

• Owns various work processes, trending and tracking programs, administrative systems and plant systems in support of engineering

• Prepares monthly maintenance/operations report, outage reports and various equipment reports as required. Prepares reports on maintenance back-log and equipment re-works including fuel reports, and other monthly reports as needed.

• Plans large maintenance projects. Estimates cost, required resources, and evaluates contractor proposals. Evaluates and selects contractors based on quality, timeliness and cost, as appropriate. Serves as coordinator and site contact for contractors performing work in the plant.

• Develops cost estimates for outages and large equipment repair jobs. Assists in preparing plant budget

Minimum Requirements

• Three to five years of power plant experience or equivalent experience in heavy industry.

• Formal relevant technical education and/or military/service/training may be substituted for years of experience on a one-for-one basis up to four years.

• An understanding of maintenance and operations practices and procedures is required.

• Good communication skills both oral and written Leadership and human relations experience required.

• Demonstrate ability to lead people and manage projects. Must have excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office Knowledge of ""Lockout/Tagout Processes"". Experience with budgeting and cost control preferred.

Preferred Requirements

• SAP work order management system experience.
• Utility business experience will be considered in lieu of power plant experience.

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Non-BargainingThe anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $73,700.00 to $104,633.33 per yearThis 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

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Deadline to Apply: 10/07/26

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