Manager Maintenance

Alliant Energy is seeking a Manager of Maintenance for the Ottumwa Generating Station in Ottumwa, IA. The role involves leading maintenance teams, managing maintenance activities, and ensuring safe operations. Responsibilities include developing maintenance plans, overseeing work order management, and collaborating with other departments. The position emphasizes safety, employee development, and effective communication, and is part of the plant's management team.
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Job Summary

Alliant Energy is seeking a seasoned maintenance leader for our Ottumwa Generating Station in Ottumwa, IA. In this position, you will guide a dedicated team of maintenance employees and frequently interact with union leadership. Familiarity with bargaining unit contracts will be beneficial.

As the Manager of Maintenance, you will manage and provide leadership and are responsible for planning, directing, and implementing all assigned maintenance activities in a safe and environmentally conscious manner with a keen focus on continuously improving competitive position and profitability. This position serves as a member of a plant's management team.

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
• Promotes and supports diversity initiatives and equal employment opportunity.
• 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 in a diverse 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

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:

104,000.00 - $143,000.00

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 is committed to providing an inclusive work environment for all 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 expression, 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.

Alliant Energy and subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in the workplace. Applicants in need of a reasonable accommodation for any part of the hiring process, please email talent@alliantenergy.com.