Manager Maintenance

Job Summary

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.

• Responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and improving maintenance activities in a generating plant environment.

• Responsible for the overall management and supervision of maintenance activities including ensuring the effective implementation of maintenance strategies, policies, and procedures to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the plant.

• Accountable for developing and implementing comprehensive long and short-range maintenance plans. These plans involve analyzing equipment performance, identifying maintenance needs, scheduling preventive and corrective maintenance activities and coordinating with other departments to optimize plant availability and minimize downtime.

• Overall responsibility for work order management. Provide guidance and assistance to employees in preparing maintenance work requests. Review Work Orders for completeness and accuracy and ensure proper utilization of work management system.

• Collaborates closely with other departments, such as operations, engineering, procurement, and finance, to ensure seamless coordination and communication. This includes participating in cross-functional meetings, sharing information, addressing operational challenges, and supporting the overall goals of the power plant.

• Prepare, recommend, and monitor maintenance budget and assist in planning capital budgets to ensure adequate funds for mechanical, electrical, control, and instrument maintenance requirements on an annual and 5-year basis.

• Directly participates in the development of plant specific goals and objectives.

• Assists in overall budget planning for the plant and takes responsibility for developing, implementing, and explaining variances of the maintenance budget plan.

• 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 Preferred

Required Experience

• 5 years of related experience

• 3 years supervisory experience or equivalent.

Other Requirements

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

• Prefer that the candidate live within 45 minutes of the plant.

• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Working knowledge of process controls (Provox, Mark V, etc.) preferred. Demonstrated effective leadership 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.

Key Skills

• Asset Life Cycle Management • Condition Monitoring • Continual Improvement Process • Records Management • Systems Performance Monitoring • Generation Dispatch Estimation • Incident Management • Occupational Health and Safety Management • Operations Management • Resource Optimization • Root Cause Analysis • System Load Analysis • Systems Performance Monitoring • Troubleshooting • Vegetation Management • Workflow Optimization • Leadership