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Operations Manager - Pawnee Solar
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Xcel Energy .
Position at Xcel Energy offering leadership of a high performing, safe operations team across multiple functions, facilities, or commodities with focus on safe, reliable, compliant operations and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Provide visible safety leadership and contribute to a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with Safety Consultant. Drive real-time safety accountability through safety meetings, job briefs, audits, training, incident investigations, and job site observations.
Business Optimization & Strategy: evaluate team performance against operational efficiency, reliability, and quality metrics; identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through collaboration and expectation setting.
Operational Effectiveness: lead crew effectiveness, quality, and productivity; maintain a continuous presence in the work environment; help remove barriers with prerequisites, materials, stakeholders, and other issues; ensure correct crew composition and skills to meet objectives; assist in preparing resource forecasts and longer-term work plans.
Talent Management: recruit and develop staff, establish expectations, manage performance, provide training and coaching, and drive employee engagement. 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; ensure teams have access to necessary systems and resources; enable crews to provide solutions to issues and improve customer/stakeholder satisfaction.
Regulatory & Compliance: oversee work execution and documentation in accordance with policies, procedures, labor agreements, and regulatory standards; ensure compliance training is completed; monitor and track processes for regulatory compliance.
Minimum Requirements
Five or more years in design, construction, operations, engineering or maintenance of utility systems/power generation plants or related fields; associates or technical degree preferred.
Demonstrated technical expertise in a specific functional area including standards, procedures, and applicable government/environmental regulations.
Operational knowledge of work and asset management and analytical/reporting applications.
Effective change leadership with ability to communicate company and business area strategies to a variety of stakeholders.
Proven results in achieving performance and operational metrics and driving process adherence.
Preferred Characteristics
Associates or technical degree.
Three years of supervisory experience.
Understanding of utility finance and ability to balance budget with site performance.
Experience working with bargaining unit employees.
On-call requirements and may work nights/weekends.
Battery Energy Storage (BESS) experience.
Additional Information Estimated starting base pay: $112,200.00 to $159,400.00 per year. Benefits include annual incentive program, medical/dental/vision, life insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. EEO statements and accessibility information are provided in the original posting. Applicants may redact age-identifying information in submissions. Deadline to apply: 01/18/26.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For accommodation requests, contact recruiting@xcelenergy.com.
This description contains standard disclosures about accessibility and policy information. For more details, refer to the original posting.
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Operations Manager - Pawnee Solar
role at
Xcel Energy .
Position at Xcel Energy offering leadership of a high performing, safe operations team across multiple functions, facilities, or commodities with focus on safe, reliable, compliant operations and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Provide visible safety leadership and contribute to a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with Safety Consultant. Drive real-time safety accountability through safety meetings, job briefs, audits, training, incident investigations, and job site observations.
Business Optimization & Strategy: evaluate team performance against operational efficiency, reliability, and quality metrics; identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through collaboration and expectation setting.
Operational Effectiveness: lead crew effectiveness, quality, and productivity; maintain a continuous presence in the work environment; help remove barriers with prerequisites, materials, stakeholders, and other issues; ensure correct crew composition and skills to meet objectives; assist in preparing resource forecasts and longer-term work plans.
Talent Management: recruit and develop staff, establish expectations, manage performance, provide training and coaching, and drive employee engagement. 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; ensure teams have access to necessary systems and resources; enable crews to provide solutions to issues and improve customer/stakeholder satisfaction.
Regulatory & Compliance: oversee work execution and documentation in accordance with policies, procedures, labor agreements, and regulatory standards; ensure compliance training is completed; monitor and track processes for regulatory compliance.
Minimum Requirements
Five or more years in design, construction, operations, engineering or maintenance of utility systems/power generation plants or related fields; associates or technical degree preferred.
Demonstrated technical expertise in a specific functional area including standards, procedures, and applicable government/environmental regulations.
Operational knowledge of work and asset management and analytical/reporting applications.
Effective change leadership with ability to communicate company and business area strategies to a variety of stakeholders.
Proven results in achieving performance and operational metrics and driving process adherence.
Preferred Characteristics
Associates or technical degree.
Three years of supervisory experience.
Understanding of utility finance and ability to balance budget with site performance.
Experience working with bargaining unit employees.
On-call requirements and may work nights/weekends.
Battery Energy Storage (BESS) experience.
Additional Information Estimated starting base pay: $112,200.00 to $159,400.00 per year. Benefits include annual incentive program, medical/dental/vision, life insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. EEO statements and accessibility information are provided in the original posting. Applicants may redact age-identifying information in submissions. Deadline to apply: 01/18/26.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For accommodation requests, contact recruiting@xcelenergy.com.
This description contains standard disclosures about accessibility and policy information. For more details, refer to the original posting.
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