Principal Industrial Hygienist

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.

Position Summary

Designs and develops safety programs, policies, and procedures. Provides professional consulting across the company. Monitors, interprets, analyzes and communicates federal, state, OSHA and other related rules and regulations. Designs and develops improvement strategy/plans. Conducts health risk assessments and audits. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. Consults with management in highly unique or unusual situations.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides corporate oversight, overall program management and leads the development of initiatives. Takes the initiative in developing company response for new safety & health programs.
• Represents the company in depositions and legal issues. Provides work direction and mentors other team members including professional and hourly employees, in helping them understand their assignments and technical requirements.
• Consults on complex safety & health initiatives and serve as subject matter expert resource for others. Leads cross functional teams. Provides assistance and direction when required for effective team functioning. May serve as acting supervisor when required, such as time reporting requirements, expense approval, etc.
• Administers special projects including but not limited to contractor oversight, ventilation requirements, and budgeting activities. Identify and select qualified abatement/demolition contractors for industrial hygiene projects to drive excellence and safety priorities. Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.
• Identifies, recommends and implements (under direction of management) initiatives/programs to support achievement of business area and corporate objectives. Collaborates with Investment Recovery to ensure demolition and salvage recycling contractors are OSHA compliant and operating safely while obtaining the most value from project recycling.
• Acts as the regulatory compliance subject matter expert in the area of safety & health. Analyzes data, reviews initial responses developed by Consultant and Senior Consultant. Reviews and develops response for highly complex regulation. Recommends policy and procedural changes based on regulatory requirements. Interprets new and proposed regulations and recommends response.
• Serves as subject matter expert regarding industrial hygiene, health or environmental hazard training, presents final training materials to management for approval and implementation.
• Conducts and reviews complex health audits, industrial hygiene surveys, assessments and inspections, exposure monitoring, medical surveillance and engineering controls. Investigations - Independently conducts and coordinates highly complex, extremely serious and/or highly confidential investigations. Provides oversight on other investigations.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Business or related discipline required. Master's degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene or closely related field from an ABET Accredited University Program preferred.
• Minimum 10-15 years of Industrial Hygiene related experience. ABIH Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) certification AND Certified Safety Professional (CSP) required.
• Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.

Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Our Values

Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe

Our Employee Commitments

• Work that makes a difference
• A team you can count of
• Opportunities to grow
• Rewards that help you thrive

Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form.

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $97,600.00 to $138,600.00 per year

This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Deadline to Apply: 11/28/26

EEO is the Law (PDF) | Equal Opportunity Statement (PDF) | Employee Rights (PDF)

All Xcel Energy employees and contractors share responsibility for protecting the company's information and systems by adhering to cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices, recognizing that cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility.

Accessibility Statement

Xcel Energy endeavors to make https://www.xcelenergy.com and https://jobs.xcelenergy.com accessible to any and all users. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. For any other application related questions, including application follow-ups or technical issues, please use our Recruiting Assistance, Electra, for assistance. Electra can be found in the lower right-hand corner of our Xcel Energy Careers site.