Management & Staff

Southern Power District employs 103 people across its five service areas and its headquarters in Grand Island. Just over half of these employees are linemen and the remaining staff members provide other support services including engineering, accounting, customer service and other administrative duties.

Below is a listing of management and staff members, with links to high-resolution photographs. These photographs may be used by area media news representatives.


Neal Niedfeldt President/CEO	Aaron Brown Engineering/ Operations Manager
Darrell Peters Financial Manager	Scott Welk Customer Service Manager
LeAnne Doose Public Relations Director	Darrel Schmidt Purchasing Manager/ Safety Director
Sam Reinke Energy Services Manager	Anthony Bohaty Irrigation Services Manager
Bill Bolte Central City Area Manager	Jim Garretson Central City Maintenance Supervisor
Jeff Chase Holdrege/ Franklin Area Manager	Harley Scott Holdrege Maintenance Supervisor
Ron Hawkinson Franklin Maintenance Supervisor
Bill Rundle Hastings Area Manager	John Ciemnoczolowski Hastings Maintenance Supervisor
Steve Steinhauser Grand Island Area Manager	Todd Wilson Grand Island Area Maintenance Supervisor