Lead Substation Compliance Analyst

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: The primary responsibility of this position is the management of Substation processes and documentation required to support all Xcel Energy regulatory oversight and execution of internal processes of the NERC, FERC or CIP Compliance Programs. This position assists in the development of work management system data elements supporting the operations areas where specific equipment work, condition assessments and cyber vulnerability assessments will be performed.

Process and Controls Awareness. Working knowledge of NERC policy, standards, processes and controls. Effectively manages the oversight of field work and/or programs to maintain compliance with defined control oversight processes and standards. Provides expertise in the integration of data related to the end-to-end business processes. Provides guidance to the field technical resources in support of the substation asset tracking program. Identifies and is able to apply process and controls knowledge to meet compliance requirements; is able to ensure process requirements are met and/or issues are escalated, classified and documented properly. Proactively creates hypothesis and defines necessary data extractions and documentation to validate hypothesis. Is responsible for the design, implementation and documentation of the technical performance data reflected in all the electronic files. Project Management. Assists the Lead Substation Engineering-OT and the Substation Engineer-OT with the complex substation technical processes, including asset categorization assignments, as required. Coordinates technical design additions, changes and/or removals of substation assets with areas of Transmission and Substation Engineering, Project Mgmt and the Compliance Team to maintain asset inventory data integrity, work management master data element requirements and change control oversight, as required. Plans and schedules daily work for self and other Compliance Analysts to meet established schedules. Customer Relationship Management. Communicate with customers regarding regulatory and/or compliance matters. Work closely with Analysts and field technicians to ensure they have appropriate access to the work management tools. Assists the Substation Protection Engineering, Communication Engineering, Commissioning Engineering, and Compliance Engineers-OT as part of the operations Compliance Program administration and change management oversight of Transmission and Distribution asset standards.

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Technical Degree in Electronic Sciences and 8 plus years' experience with substation equipment protection and data modeling may substitute for the engineering degree. Minimum of 6 years utility experience, business/data analytics experience required, and