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Xcel Energy

Utility delivering electricity and natural gas

Nuclear T-Week Integrated Planner

Supply Chain ManagementPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeWelch, MN, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • An Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Project Management, Business, or Finance, or substantial direct purchasing or contract administration experience in a technical environment considered equivalent to the education requirements.
  • Two to four years of purchasing, logistics, work management, or plant/utility field operations experience.
  • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and relationship skills.
  • Must be willing to pursue, or currently pursuing, a Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) certificate or equivalent.
  • Must be willing to travel up to 20% of the time.
  • Must understand how material requirements planning (MRP) logic drives material requirements, including bill of materials (BOM) structure, planning parameters, and demand signals.
  • Must be comfortable reading technical documentation and translating it into actionable requirements.
  • Must have experience utilizing SAP and Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

  • Strategically prioritize work and assign resources to proactively plan and align multi-week rolling schedules, including outage and project work.
  • Serve as the first point of contact between Nuclear's business unit and the nuclear supply chain organization.
  • Perform material analysis, recommend material and service solutions for Nuclear inventory, and complete data analysis for Nuclear data governance.
  • Manage and resolve scheduling conflicts and resource requests from planning, maintenance online, and outage work management organizations.
  • Coordinate online, outage, and project scheduling.
  • Track scheduled work to ensure parts and Procurement Engineering evaluations meet required schedule dates and work management milestones.
  • Manage work order holds associated with Supply Chain activities.
  • Determine fulfillment methods for requested materials and services.
  • Attend scheduling meetings and recommend and initiate work schedule changes based on material delivery dates to minimize costs and maximize schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, safety, and compliance.
  • Drive and maintain ownership of Supply Chain-related issues.
  • Negotiate with key business unit partners to obtain project delivery dates, ensuring customer and compliance dates are met.
  • Analyze material deficiency reports, forecast resource utilization, and recommend actions to ensure parts and services are purchased to meet aggregated work demand.
  • Partner with the planning organization to improve efficiency in creating new Material Master and Service Outline Agreements.
  • Lead process change implementation efforts.
  • Represent Supply Chain in the Control Centers during refuel and forced outages for both Nuclear stations.
  • Build and leverage strong partnerships with stakeholders.
  • Facilitate resolution of Overage, Shortage, Damaged, or Discrepant items in support of the work management schedule.
  • Provide technical review of non-safety-related material masters.
  • Manage the material refurbishment program for Xcel's Nuclear plants and secure payments for this activity.

Desired Qualifications

  • Project Management experience is preferred.

About the Company

Xcel Energy

Utility delivering electricity and natural gas

Xcel Energy delivers electricity and natural gas across eight Western and Midwestern states through four subsidiaries, serving about 3.7 million electricity customers and 2.1 million natural gas customers. It generates power from nuclear, coal, natural gas, hydro, solar, and wind, and moves it to customers through high-voltage transmission lines and local distribution grids. Customers access energy via an integrated system of generation, transmission, and distribution with ongoing investments to shift toward cleaner sources. Its goal is to deliver 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Minneapolis, MN
Founded
1909

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