OMS Data Integrity and Application Technician

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.  Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.   Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Summary NMS-OMS outage Approvers perform a variety of tasks utilizing QA processes and performing extensive research to ensure data integrity so complete and accurate information is provided and properly displayed within Xcel Energy's Enterprise NMS-OMS System and other software applications to accurately reflects outage duration and restoration times. Works closely with various Business Units/Organizations; Electric & Gas Operations, Electric Trouble Field Ops, GIS-Mapping, Electric Area Engineering, Damage Prevention, Vegetation Management, Claims Services, IBM I/T Teams & Specialists for Xcel Energy's Enterprise NMS-OMS System and Service Suite software applications. Create specialized data integrity reports to ensure accurate data. Failure to maintain the NMS-OMS data accurately results in costly fines to the company, electric reliability reporting issues, and potential safety issues for both employees and the public.

Interpret, verify, revise, correct, reconcile, and approve outage records within NMS-OMS System application. Electric Distribution QA and data review to accurately depict outage duration and restoration times within NMS-OMS System application. Utilize multiple systems including the NMS-OMS System data, EMS Query application, CRS application, OMS-REA application, GIS-SmallWorld, Business Objects/WEBI reporting application and information provided by distribution Operations, Construction and Trouble departments to create accurate electric outage records. Requires a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. This information determines Customer Minutes Out (CMO) counts, which impacts Corporate and regional Operating Company SAIDI and other monitoring measures, customer rebates, and quality of restoration services. This information is also utilized in compliance audits by various company departments and governmental agencies. Update and correct connectivity model mapping issues properly reflect real world electrical distribution system configuration. Utilize multiple software applications as well as external resources to confirm distribution system configuration, phasing, premise & device location addressing and connectivity. Includes accessing GIS-SmallWorld, County Assessor GIS maps, city maps, Google Earth & Google Maps. Request electric distribution field checks & field verifications to Operations and Trouble departments. Communicate with Operations and Engineering to confirm and/or help resolve area mapping issues. Provide detailed revision information and inform GIS-Mapping department of all required mapping changes needed, including any large-scale updates and changes. Connectivity model corrections are provided to GIS-Mapping department and all submissions are tracked to completion in NMS-OMS System application.