Operations Scheduler

Operations Scheduler

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 you're looking for.

Operations Schedulers will proactively create and align a multi-week, rolling schedule in collaboration with area leadership to ensure work is performed on-time and within the specified performance targets. The objective is to build, coordinate, and maintain a prioritized, compliant, executable 2-week schedule. Operations Schedulers will be responsible for creating the schedule for a designated region, function, and/or commodity area.

Essential Responsibilities

• Prioritize and schedule planned work in a multi-week timeframe based on work types, job priorities and resource availability; identify gaps and resolve scheduling conflicts.
• Develop and communicate a valid, workable schedule based on business unit guidelines for work coordination to assign through facilitation of regular scheduling meetings.
• Ensure resource availability (crews, equipment and materials) and mitigate resource conflicts and backlogs over a multi-week timeframe.
• Verify work tasks are assigned to the correct work areas, in the right order, adhering to critical dependencies and proactively drive toward a mid-term view of required resources that contributes to forecasting and staffing decisions throughout the business area.
• Communicate and work effectively with 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.
• Drive customer satisfaction by establishing and maintaining strong adherence to scheduling processes.

Minimum Requirements

• High School diploma or GED.
• Minimum five years' experience in construction, design, maintenance or operations area (utility experience preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to schedule and administer work activities in a manner that meets customer and/or internal stakeholder requirements.
• Established 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 Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet tools.
• Ability to retrieve and manipulate data from reporting tools.
• Knowledge of and ability to use a wide range of computer software applications which include Microsoft products, work management, mapping and scheduling/project management tools.

Preferred Characteristics

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, construction management or related field.
• Previous SAP reporting experience.
• Previous PowerBI experience.
• Scheduling/planning experience in utility or construction industry.

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 you're ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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