Operations Supervisor - Damage Prevention

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow A position at Xcel Energy could be just what youre looking for.

Position Summary

Standard Operations Position. Supervise a high performing operations team while driving the safe efficient and cost-effective use of resources according to policies and procedures. Assure safe reliable and compliant operations and ensure customer satisfaction. Ensure consistent and effective use of standard tools and processes. Support attainment of corporate and business unit goals and objectives and process and performance metrics. Serve as a strong communicator of key strategic and operational changes.

Essential Responsibilities

• Safety: Provide visible safety leadership and drive real time safety accountability by engaging employees/crew through safety meeting facilitation job briefs audits training accident investigation/event assessment and job site observations. Work in close partnership with Safety Consultant.

• Business Optimization & Strategy: Evaluate team performance based on operational efficiency reliability and quality metrics; monitor trends and take corrective action where appropriate. Ensure and reinforce the importance of process adherence and data integrity. Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through effective communication of expectations and objectives. Manage vendor tracking and performance and supervise team providing data.

• Operational Effectiveness: Responsible for crew productivity and quality of execution. Maintain a consistent presence in the work environment. Assist in removing barriers with pre-requisites materials stakeholder and other issues. Align crew skills and availability to work activities through coordinators planners and schedulers prioritizing customer satisfaction and reliability.

• Talent Management: Partner with vendor resources to identify and coach a high performing team that oversees enterprise reporting. Develop business processes to allow for fostering of developing within both vendor and internal team.

• Relationship Management: Build and maintain effective internal and external relationships. Be knowledgeable of necessary systems and resources to assist employees other work groups and/or customers and stakeholders. Financial oversight of both company programs and vendor invoicing. Partner with ticket management providers to improve business performance.

• Regulatory & Compliance: 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/technical training is completed. Establish monitor and track processes to ensure regulatory compliance.

Minimum Requirements

• Three or more years in design construction operations engineering or maintenance of utility systems/power generation plants or related industries/fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in specific functional area standards procedures and applicable government/environmental regulations.

• Operational knowledge of damage prevention work and financial control systems.

• Effective change leader with demonstrated ability to effectively communicate company/business area strategies and objectives to various stakeholders.

• Proven results at achieving performance and operational metrics and driving process adherence.

• Demonstrated experience working with both internal and vendor resources.

• Demonstrated understanding of finance.

Preferred Requirements

• Associates or technical degree.

• Informal leadership or supervisory experience.

• Prior vendor management experience.

• Prior financial control experience.

• Prior underground utility locating experience.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If youre ready to be a part of something big we invite you to join our team.

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