Manager Renewable Assets - Wind

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Job Summary

Are you a seasoned utility professional with leadership experience and a strong background in generation? We're hiring a Manager – Renewable Assets to lead wind operations at English Farms, while also contributing to solar and battery storage initiatives as needed. This role offers the opportunity to manage high-performing teams, optimize asset performance, and help shape a diverse and growing renewable energy portfolio. Join us in driving innovation and sustainability across our clean energy operations.

What you will do

- Performs all leadership duties, including 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.

- Plans and implements activities for the operation and maintenance of assigned renewable installations and associated equipment including outage planning.

- Sets Operational goals for the renewable assets and takes appropriate action to ensure resources and efforts remain focused on renewable assets financial, safety, environmental, and operating goals.

- Ensures that employees understand business unit and renewable asset financial, operating, and compliance goals and focus efforts on achieving these goals.

- Ensures routine regulatory reporting activities for renewable assets are completed in a timely manner, including those for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Transportation (DOT), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Federal Electric Reliability Corporation (FERC).

- Ensures regulatory reporting activities for renewable assets are completed in a timely manner.

- Participates in the renewable asset budget planning, forecasting and reconcilement processes.

- Leads the establishment, acceptance, and implementation of operating policies, process performance, and procedures and activities that maximize financial and operating results.

- Promotes good employee and community relations through personal contacts and attention with landowners and surrounding communities.

- Responsible for facilitating work with procurement staff to provide appropriate contracts, contractors, and material to support renewable operations as needed.

- Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and helps deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Education Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Science, Business or related area. Preferred

Required Experience

- 5 years of O&M and Asset Management or related technical or professional experience.

- 3 years supervisory experience or equivalent.

Preferred Experience

- 2-4 years experience in generation operations, strategy, product design, and mechanical or electrical engineering.

- Demonstrated experience working with labor union management

- Experience with emergency management and agency coordination.

- Experience in maintaining agreements for utility and grid interconnection processes.

- Understanding of the operations of renewable energy and emerging market trends.

Other Requirements

- Must possess a valid driver’s license.

- Support and foster a culture of belonging while demonstrating a strong commitment to equal employment opportunity.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Excellent working knowledge of application and theory of data-guided management practices, including Statistical Process Control, continuous improvement, and data collection and analysis highly desired.

- Demonstrated effective leadership skills, management, and coaching skills. Demonstrated financial skills such as budgeting and basic accounting.

- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to use computer software programs (e.g., e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, and project management).

- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

- Project management skills coupled with organization, flexibility and strong attention to detail.

- Demonstrated track record of successful strategy design, project execution and ongoing management to deliver sustainability outcomes, engagement and communication.

- Knowledge of energy management, energy measurement and carbon accounting.

- Experience in crafting the business case and plan for enterprise-level ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) goals, including strategic and financial analysis of energy strategies.

- Experience developing documents and presentations for external distribution.

- Proven ability to identify, analyze, and objectively problem solve and with prompt and meticulous follow through.

- Strong understanding of project finance, legal contracts, accounting and contract negotiations.

- Knowledge of processes for guidance and support to brands and or other stakeholders on meeting criteria and or sustainability goals.

- Considers the ultimate impact of decisions and actions on internal and external customers.

Key Skills

- Asset Life Cycle Management • Budget Management • Continual Improvement Process • Corrective Maintenance • Records Management • Operations Management • Environmental Awareness • Equipment Repair Maintenance • Power Generation Optimization • Stakeholder Management • Vegetation Management • Leadership

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.

Alliant Energy offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

Pay Range:

$104,000-$143,000

This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

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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

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