Rick Hellner

Rick Hellner is a Consulting Engineer at Xcel Energy, where a career spanning over four decades includes the performance of more than 450 failure analyses on various power plant components, such as rotating equipment, boiler tubing, fasteners, and piping/pressure vessel components. This role involves the preparation of detailed technical reports that outline root cause failure mechanisms and mitigation recommendations. With more than 18 years of experience in metallurgical engineering, Rick Hellner possesses extensive expertise in failure analysis, materials selection, welding engineering, life assessment, and corrosion. Rick Hellner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering Technology from Colorado State University Pueblo, completed between 1975 and 1976.