Senior Manager Generation Operations

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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.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a dynamic leader to oversee operations at the Columbia Energy Center in Pardeeville, WI. In this role, you’ll lead a skilled team responsible for operating and maintaining generation facilities that deliver safe, reliable, and efficient energy. Your leadership will ensure top-tier performance in safety, environmental compliance, and operational excellence while aligning facility outcomes with our company’s strategic goals.

As Senior Manager, you’ll direct critical resources—people, tools, and processes to optimize facility performance and drive continuous improvement. You’ll lead initiatives in financial planning, risk management, regulatory compliance, and outage execution, while fostering strong relationships with internal teams and external partners. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will shape the future of energy generation and strengthen our competitive position.

If you’re ready to take on a leadership role that combines strategic vision with hands-on operational oversight, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful difference in an essential industry.

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, interfaces with communities and customers and models Alliant Energy’s Core Values at all times.

- Oversees all aspects of the operations and maintenance of generation assets including the use of cost-effective methodologies, identification of reliability gaps, long-range planning, basic to complex project oversight and construction work associated with generation assets.

- Responsible for ensuring resources are available, trained, and assigned to address system reliability issues and system improvements.

- Oversee the development and implementation of strategic improvement plans to all business processes within assigned facilities to deliver desired vision and performance goals. Utilize plant performance metrics to ensure effective and efficient process standards are met and improving as expected.

- Responsible for and/or provides knowledgeable financial evaluation of existing and future assets, effective management and deployment of O&M and capital spend strategies and sound implementation process for maximum asset utilization.

- Develops talent and assists director with strategic succession planning, including updating staffing plans and labor union discussions to meet team and business unit goals.

- Demonstrates leadership in the area of safety, including observing and enforcing safety rules and operating practices, encouraging safe work behaviors, investigating accidents and promptly correcting conditions and unsafe work behaviors which may lead to accidents.

- Ensure positive and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to operations support, regulatory, union leadership, and community contacts.

- Understands and implements rules set by regulatory bodies, e.g., Department of Labor (DOT), Occupational Safety and Safety Administration (OSHA), and Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

- Responsible for managing and supporting facility environmental issues. May serve as primary contact and interfaces with environmental staff on environmental issues directly related to the manager’s assigned facilities. Ensures that no Notice of Violation’s are issued against the company in the assigned facilities.

- 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 Business Engineering or related area preferred.

Required Experience

- 7 years of experience in generation or related work experience.

- 5 years supervisory experience, with experience supervising generation, engineering, construction, project management, or field operations.

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

- Demonstrated effective leadership skills.

- Solid working knowledge of electric, gas or steam operating practices, construction standards, work methods, equipment, maintenance practices, regulatory compliance and materials preferred.

- Demonstrated experience working with labor union management preferred.

- Knowledge of safety rules and applicable electric codes and DOT/PHMSA regulations preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to read and understand utility maps, plan and profiles, and drawings preferred.

- Demonstrated financial skills such as budgeting and basic accounting.

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

- Demonstrated understanding of information technology applications. 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.

Key Skills

- Business Process Improvements

- Customer Experience Management

- Energy Distribution Systems Management

- Operations Management

- Financial Management

- Health, Safety, and Environmental Management

- Outage Management

- Project and Program Management

- Regulatory Compliance

- Resource Optimization

- Stakeholder 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:

$130,000 - $180,000

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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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.