Description
Position Summary:
This position strategically prioritizes work and assigns resources to proactively plan and align multi-week rolling schedules including outage and project work. It is the first point of contact between Nuclear's business unit and the nuclear supply chain organization. This position performs material analysis, recommends material and service solutions for the Nuclear inventory and completes data analysis for Nuclear data governance.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Manages and resolves scheduling conflicts and resource requests from planning, maintenance online and outage work management organizations.
- Coordinates online, outage and project scheduling.
- Tracks scheduled work to ensure parts and Procurement Engineering evaluations meet required schedule dates and work management milestones.
- Manages work order holds associated with Supply Chain activities.
- Determines fulfillment method for requested materials and services
- Attends scheduling meetings, recommends and initiates work schedule changes based on material delivery dates to minimize costs and to maximize schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, safety and compliance.
- Drives and maintains ownership for Supply Chain related issues.
- Negotiates with key business unit partners to obtain project delivery dates ensuring customer and compliance dates are met.
- Analyzes material deficiency reports, forecasts resource utilization and makes recommendations to ensure parts and services are purchased to meet aggregated work demand.
- Partners with the planning organization to achieve efficiency in the creation of new Material Master and Service Outline Agreements.
- Leads process change implementation efforts.
- Represents Supply Chain in the Control Centers during refuel and forced outages for both Nuclear stations.
- Builds and leverages strong partnerships with stakeholders.
- Facilitates resolution of Overage, Shortage, Damaged or Discrepant items in support of the work management schedule.
- Provides technical review of non-safety related material masters
- Manages the material refurbishment program for Xcel's Nuclear plants and secures payments for this activity.
Minimum Requirements:
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Project Management, Business, or Finance
- Substantial direct purchasing or contract administration experience in a technical environment considered equivalent to education requirements.
- 2-4 years of purchasing, logistics, work management or experience in plant/utility field operations.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration and relationship skills.
- Must be willing to or currently pursuing a Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) certificate or equivalent
- Travel up to 20% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Preference given to candidates with Project Management experience
- Understands how MRP logic drives material requirements, including BOM structure, planning parameters, and demand signals
- Comfort reading technical documentation and translating it into actionable requirements.
- Experience utilizing SAP and Microsoft Office
Contact
Xcel Energy, Inc.
414 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis
Minnesota United States
www.xcelenergy.com
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