Work Week Manager - Welch, MN

Xcel Energy•Welch Township, MN

About The Position

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. Position Summary Responsible for quality and credibility of online schedules and the results of weekly schedule adherence. Ensures coordination and hand-offs between departments. Determines the level of schedule detail based on complexity and significance of the work. Oversees schedule adherence and risk compliance during online execution. Reviews and approves scope and schedule change requests for technical accuracy, team readiness to implement and risk impact. Able to function as back-up to, Online Scheduling Manager, Outage and Scheduling Manager, Assistant Shift Outage Director positions. Qualified for Emergency Plan positions. Performs Action Requests Evaluations and Corrective Actions.

Requirements

High school education or equivalent required.
8 years of relevant work, or training, of which 3 years are required to be in a Nuclear power plant.

Nice To Haves

Management experience desired.
Associate's degree from two year college or technical school in Engineering or technical field desired.
Bachelor's degree desired.
SRO License desired.

Responsibilities

Assess schedule risks and determine at-risk work that will remain in the schedule after T-6, assures manager for at-risk work is named. Tracks at-risk work to completion. Assesses the nuclear safety risk of the schedule. Perform risk assessment and perform initial PRA risk management assessment at week T-6 and final risk assessment at T-1 in accordance with applicable site procedures. Approval of work activities.
Manages scope, planning, scheduling, execution and critiquing of assigned work weeks. Controls and coordinates emergent work entering the assigned work week, determines priorities and directs FIN team resources to protect scheduled work. Ensure appropriate communications are made to affected work groups and perform PRA as necessary.
Chairs Schedule Review Meetings. Chairs the T-5 initial schedule review and T-2 final schedule review meetings and assigns and tracks action items as required. Chairs/leads Complex Issues meetings to ensure appropriate planning and preparation is in place for the activities. Removes and assigns owners for at Risk Work Orders.
Chairs Work Week Critique Meetings. Perform periodic critiques of the scheduling work control process effectiveness. Identifies opportunities to improve and assumes leadership role to implement improvement actions and provides a summary report to site management. Conducts/Chairs Event Response Critiques and provides summaries to Management.
Chairs the daily production meeting, provides coordination information, and discusses schedule adherence. Chairs/coordinates breakout sessions on operational concerns and plant priorities and ensures owners are named for actions and held accountable.
Implement work week. Acts as a single point of contact during the work week to help resolve delays with schedule Grade 'A' and Grade 'B' work items. Reviews schedule grades (A-D) and modifies them as appropriate
Manages scope, planning, scheduling, execution and critiquing of assigned work weeks. Provides schedule logic to the scheduler as necessary, coordinates with affected work groups that schedule logic is correct. Validates resources and ensures scheduled work for work groups is properly loaded to maximize the use of available resources.