Transmission Planning Supervisor

Xcel Energy Services Inc; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Senior Transmission Planning Leader to guide studies, manage engineers, and drive planning initiatives. The role emphasizes delivering reliable, compliant planning results and coordinating across multiple groups to align with regulatory and business objectives.

Based in a hybrid Denver area, the position requires strong technical steering, strategic thinking, and the ability to translate planning objectives into executable work programs that support system reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering is required.
• 8-10 years in transmission planning or related field.
• 3-5 years supervisory or leadership experience.
• Knowledge of FERC, NERC, tariffs, and regional planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of transmission planning studies and analyses.
• Supervise engineers, analysts, interns, and consultants.
• Develop study schedules, resource plans, and budgets.
• Coordinate planning with multiple internal teams and manage communication.
• Ensure compliance with reliability standards and regulatory filings.

Skills

Team leadership

Transmission planning

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelors in EE

Tools

Planning software

Modeling 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

Provides leadership and direction for the execution of transmission planning activities and studies necessary to support reliable and compliant operation of the transmission system. Responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of transmission planning engineers and consultants, ensuring timely completion of planning assessments, interconnection studies, transmission service evaluations, and related planning deliverables. Leads the implementation of planning strategies, oversees study execution, manages workload prioritization, and ensures technical quality and consistency across planning activities. Responsible for translating strategic planning objectives into executable work programs and delivering planning results that support system reliability, customer needs, regulatory compliance, and capital investment decisions.

Essential Responsibilities

• Planning Study Execution: Lead execution of transmission planning studies, assessments, and analyses required to support reliability, transmission service, interconnection, and long-term planning objectives. Coordinates with model development and other contributing organization for study planning and preparation. Manage development and maintenance of transmission planning study assumptions, and planning databases. Ensure technical accuracy, consistency, and quality of planning study results and recommendations. Support identification, evaluation, and mitigation of system constraints and reliability concerns.
• Team Leadership: Supervise transmission planning engineers, analysts, interns, and consultants. Manage workload assignments, project prioritization, performance expectations, and employee development. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to planning staff. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Program and Resource Management: Develop and maintain study schedules, resource plans, and workload forecasts. Monitor progress against planning commitments and regulatory deadlines. Identify and resolve execution risks that could impact planning deliverables. Manage consultant support and ensure effective utilization of internal and external resources.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate planning activities with resource planning, distribution planning, operations, asset management, engineering, protection, interconnection, and project development organizations. Ensure planning assumptions and study results are effectively communicated to stakeholders. Support development of transmission project recommendations and business cases.
• Regulatory and Compliance Support: Ensure planning activities comply
• Regulatory and Compliance Support: Ensure planning activities comply with applicable reliability standards, planning criteria, tariff requirements, and regulatory obligations. Support preparation of technical reports, planning documents, and regulatory filings. Participate in audits, data requests, and compliance activities as required.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve study processes, tools, methodologies, and organizational effectiveness. Implement process improvements that enhance efficiency, consistency, and planning quality. Support the integration of planning processes across reliability planning, interconnection studies, transmission service studies, and long-range planning activities.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering required
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in transmission planning, power systems analysis, transmission engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 3-5 years of demonstrated supervisory, project leadership, or team leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of transmission planning methodologies, power system modeling, planning software, and applicable reliability standards.
• Working knowledge of FERC, NERC, transmission tariffs, and regional planning practices.
• Demonstrated abi