Director Operational Excellence

Bring YOUR energy to Alliant Energy!

At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. When our employees say "I am energy", it means they take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We want you to be safe, happy and healthy. That's why we prioritize safety, offer volunteer opportunities and provide competitive pay, comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement and paid time off.

Lead the Charge Toward Operational Excellence.

Are you a visionary leader with a passion for driving efficiency, innovation, and strategic impact? At Alliant Energy, we’re seeking a Director of Operational Excellence to shape the future of our operations across Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) and Interstate Power and Light (IPL). In this pivotal role, you’ll collaborate with senior leadership to streamline processes, elevate performance metrics, and empower a high-performing workforce—all while helping us deliver on our purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities. If you're ready to lead with purpose and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you.

What You Will Do

- Performs all leadership duties including, but not limited to, hiring and rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, partnering with employees to set clear goals and expectations, providing timely and specific feedback on performance, developing improvement plans to address performance gaps, addressing conflict with care and respect, identifying opportunities for growth and development, embracing and modeling a mindset of lifelong learning, ensuring employees report to work fit for duty, adhering to our Code of Conduct and modeling Alliant Energy’s Core Values at all times.

- Collaborates with operations leadership team to define and execute strategic direction, goals and objectives.

- Partners with operations leadership to drive prioritization and establish governance principles to achieve consistency within WPL and IPL and align our operational strategy and execution.

- Defines, enables and continuously improves performance metrics that include operational excellence, project delivery and innovation.

- Provides oversight for all activities, processes, change management, and issue resolution efforts related to operational excellence.

- Develops and maintains industry benchmarks that support operational excellence.

- Ensures effective relationships and communication channels for operational excellence priorities and performance metrics across all key stakeholders.

- Provides oversight for the development the operations workforce including technical training policies and programs. Ensures facilitation of skill gap assessments, identifying professional development opportunities, facilitating culture initiatives, and supporting talent attraction and retention.

- Maintains a solid working relationship with union leadership while making strategic recommendations to increase productivity, quality, and customer service levels.

- Engages in other duties as needed that support our Values and help deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Education Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree Emphasis in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field. Required

- Master's Degree Preferred

Required Experience

- 10 years of related experience.

- 6 years progressively more responsible supervisory experience.

Key Skills

- Business Insights

- Business Process Improvements

- Business Strategies

- Change Management

- Cost Management

- Issue Management

- Leadership

- Marketing Communications

- Metrics Monitoring

- Organizational Strategy

- Regulatory Strategies

- Risk Management

- Stakeholder Management

- Strategic Planning

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

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Alliant Energy and its subsidiaries are committed to creating a culture of belonging and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by law.

All candidates selected for employment with Alliant Energy will be required to successfully complete a background check, and a drug screen where applicable.

Disclaimer:

The above information on this description has been crafted to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not crafted to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Applicants in need of a reasonable accommodation for any part of the hiring process, please email talent@alliantenergy.com.