Alliant Energy
Senior Manager Generation Operations
Alliant Energy, Pardeeville, Wisconsin, United States, 53954
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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.
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
Perform all leadership duties including hiring, rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, partnering with employees to set clear goals, providing timely feedback, developing improvement plans, handling conflict with care, identifying opportunities for growth, modeling lifelong learning, ensuring fit-to-duty reporting, adhering to the Code of Conduct, and interacting with communities and customers in a manner that demonstrates Alliant Energy’s Core Values.
Oversee all aspects of operations and maintenance of generation assets, applying cost‑effective methodologies, identifying reliability gaps, long‑range planning, basic to complex project oversight, and construction work associated with generation assets.
Ensure resources are available, trained, and assigned to address system reliability issues and system improvements.
Develop and implement strategic improvement plans to all business processes within assigned facilities to deliver vision and performance goals, utilizing plant performance metrics to ensure effective and efficient process standards.
Provide knowledgeful financial evaluation of existing and future assets, effectively manage and deploy O&M and capital spend strategies, and implement processes for maximum asset utilization.
Develop talent and assist director with strategic succession planning, including updating staffing plans and labor union discussions to meet team and business unit goals.
Demonstrate leadership in safety: observe and enforce safety rules and operating practices, encourage safe work behaviors, investigate accidents and promptly correct conditions leading to accidents.
Maintain positive and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including operations support, regulatory, union leadership, and community contacts.
Understand and implement rules set by regulatory bodies such as DOT, OSHA, and DNR.
Manage and support facility environmental issues, serving as primary contact and interface with environmental staff, ensuring no Notice of Violation is issued against the company in assigned facilities.
Engage 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 in Business, Engineering, or related area preferred.
Required Experience
7 years of experience in generation or related work experience.
5 years of 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.
Financial skills such as budgeting and basic accounting.
Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Understanding of information technology applications. Ability to use computer software programs (e‑mail, word processing, spreadsheet, 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
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.
Live Safety. Everyone. Always | Make Things Better | Care For Others | Do The Right Thing | Act For Tomorrow | Think Beyond. Be Bold
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.
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Senior Manager Generation Operations
role at
Alliant Energy . 1 day ago, be among the first 25 applicants.
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.
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
Perform all leadership duties including hiring, rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, partnering with employees to set clear goals, providing timely feedback, developing improvement plans, handling conflict with care, identifying opportunities for growth, modeling lifelong learning, ensuring fit-to-duty reporting, adhering to the Code of Conduct, and interacting with communities and customers in a manner that demonstrates Alliant Energy’s Core Values.
Oversee all aspects of operations and maintenance of generation assets, applying cost‑effective methodologies, identifying reliability gaps, long‑range planning, basic to complex project oversight, and construction work associated with generation assets.
Ensure resources are available, trained, and assigned to address system reliability issues and system improvements.
Develop and implement strategic improvement plans to all business processes within assigned facilities to deliver vision and performance goals, utilizing plant performance metrics to ensure effective and efficient process standards.
Provide knowledgeful financial evaluation of existing and future assets, effectively manage and deploy O&M and capital spend strategies, and implement processes for maximum asset utilization.
Develop talent and assist director with strategic succession planning, including updating staffing plans and labor union discussions to meet team and business unit goals.
Demonstrate leadership in safety: observe and enforce safety rules and operating practices, encourage safe work behaviors, investigate accidents and promptly correct conditions leading to accidents.
Maintain positive and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including operations support, regulatory, union leadership, and community contacts.
Understand and implement rules set by regulatory bodies such as DOT, OSHA, and DNR.
Manage and support facility environmental issues, serving as primary contact and interface with environmental staff, ensuring no Notice of Violation is issued against the company in assigned facilities.
Engage 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 in Business, Engineering, or related area preferred.
Required Experience
7 years of experience in generation or related work experience.
5 years of 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.
Financial skills such as budgeting and basic accounting.
Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Understanding of information technology applications. Ability to use computer software programs (e‑mail, word processing, spreadsheet, 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
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.
Live Safety. Everyone. Always | Make Things Better | Care For Others | Do The Right Thing | Act For Tomorrow | Think Beyond. Be Bold
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.
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