Director Fleet Overhaul Management (Energy Supply)

Xcel Energy•Henderson, CO

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director Fleet Overhaul Management provides enterprise-level leadership and strategic direction for Xcel Energy’s Fleet Overhaul Management organization. The role is accountable for governance, prioritization, investment strategy, and performance of a generation fleet overhaul and outage portfolio exceeding $500 million. The Director leads multiple Regional Managers and enterprise support functions, establishing the operating model, decision rights, standards, and performance expectations for regional outage and overhaul planning and execution. As the enterprise owner of fleet overhaul and outage strategy, the Director makes and recommends portfolio-level tradeoffs across assets, regions, funding, workforce and contractor capacity, generation availability, and risk. The role translates corporate and Generation strategy into a multi-year fleet portfolio integrating Operations & Maintenance and Capital investments, with the goals of improving reliability and availability and optimizing asset value and lifecycle costs. The Director provides executive oversight of complex outage, modernization, and reliability programs, including projects exceeding $50 million, and intervenes when material enterprise risks require executive decisions or alignment. The Director serves as a senior advisor and primary enterprise interface to Generation leadership and partner organizations on outage strategy, investment priorities, resource constraints, portfolio risk, and long-term asset performance. The role also develops leadership capability and succession depth, and promotes safety, accountability, collaboration, disciplined decision-making, and continuous improvement across the regional overhaul organization. Minimum travel is 25%. Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model; many roles are expected onsite three days per week, but expectations vary by role, team, and business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred, or equivalent education and/or experience.
Ten years of experience in power generation or equivalent, including five years of leadership experience.
Demonstrated leadership capability and proven performance/results.

Nice To Haves

Extensive knowledge of generation operations, maintenance, outage management, capital project execution, reliability improvement, and asset management practices.
Experience with large utility generation fleets, including fossil, renewable, nuclear, or emerging generation technologies.
Demonstrated leadership managing large, geographically dispersed organizations through multiple leadership levels.
Experience leading multiple Managers or comparable senior operational leaders.
Previous leadership managing fleet-wide outage or asset management organizations.
Strong strategic planning, organizational leadership, business acumen, and enterprise decision-making capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to lead organizational transformation, continuous improvement, and enterprise-wide change initiatives.
Proven ability to manage large capital portfolios and complex maintenance investment strategies involving multiple business units and stakeholders.
Understanding of power markets, regulatory requirements, operational risk management, and utility financial planning.
Exceptional communication, executive influence, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Leadership experience across multiple locations, business units, or regional organizations preferred.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related technical field.
Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise Fleet Overhaul Management strategy, operating model, governance structure, and multi-year roadmap, aligned with corporate objectives, generation strategy, regulatory commitments, reliability requirements, and financial plans.
Lead through multiple Regional Managers, setting enterprise priorities, clarifying decision rights, establishing accountability, and evaluating regional and portfolio performance rather than directly managing day-to-day outage execution.
Prioritize and optimize investments across the generation fleet, resolving competing asset, regional, schedule, funding, workforce, contractor, and operational needs.
Establish the governance cadence for portfolio review, investment decisions, risk escalation, performance intervention, and executive decision-making.
Approve and sponsor multi-year fleet outage strategies and integrated O&M and Capital plans to optimize generation availability, asset lifecycle value, labor and contractor capacity, supply chain readiness, and capital effectiveness.
Provide executive sponsorship and oversight for major overhauls, modernization programs, and strategic outage investments, focusing on enterprise risk, critical decisions, and recovery of materially off-plan initiatives.
Set fleet-wide policies, standards, controls, metrics, and performance expectations for outage readiness, execution, startup, closeout, risk management, cost and schedule performance, and continuous improvement.
Hold Regional Managers accountable for safe, predictable, financially disciplined execution; use portfolio data and business reviews to identify systemic risks, direct corrective action, and scale proven practices.
Lead executive alignment among Operations, Engineering, Asset Management, Commercial Operations, Finance, Environmental Services, Supply Chain, Transmission, Distribution, Gas, and other partners when decisions affect enterprise priorities or fleet outcomes.
Serve as executive owner for outage management capabilities, systems, analytics, digital tools, and process transformation, including approval of enterprise requirements, investment priorities, and adoption expectations.
Own portfolio outcomes including safety, generation availability, outage duration, schedule adherence, cost and forecast performance, capital efficiency, risk exposure, contractor strategy, and fleet reliability measures.
Anticipate long-term capability and capacity needs and shape organization design, workforce strategy, contractor models, and leadership succession.
Represent Fleet Overhaul Management in executive governance, business planning, regulatory or audit discussions, and enterprise performance reviews; communicate portfolio risks, decisions, commitments, and results.
Develop Regional Managers and senior leaders, strengthen succession depth, and foster safety, accountability, enterprise thinking, collaboration, disciplined decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Maintain an uncompromising commitment to personnel, environmental, and equipment safety.
Travel at least 25%.