Senior Manager Generation Operations

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 Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, 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 (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Occupational Safety and Safety Administration (OSHA), and Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

* Responsible for managing and…