Lead Engineer - Generation

Job Summary

Come join our Strategic Project team and take the next step in your career! As Lead Engineer – Generation, you will work with project teams to manage the engineering and construction phases of projects. You will be responsible for facilitating the Alliant Energy internal review of all engineering drawings, technical specifications, and any other technical documents produced by the project Owner's Engineer (OE), Engineer of Record (EOR), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), builder, or other entities. In this role you act as a final checkpoint between the engineering and the construction of the projects.

This is a hybrid position with occasional travel to project sites including as needed to support early site development, construction, start-up and commissioning while reporting from Madison, WI, or Cedar Rapids, IA. Other areas within the Alliant Energy service territory may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Identifies problems and solutions and makes safety suggestions to maintain a safe work environment, using tools and standards to design safety into operating and maintaining equipment.
• Proactively identifies and solves highly technical or complex problems using technical experience, extensive knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts and knowledge of business trends to generate innovative and/or original solutions.
• Develops recommendations which provide technically sound and the most cost-effective solutions demonstrating critical thinking skills.
• Anticipates customer needs and demonstrates the ability and confidence to present alternatives and constructively influence the customer's decision making.
• Makes higher risk decisions that involve direct application of technical knowledge and may have an impact on multiple areas of the business with proper sign off from customer.
• Coordinates and leads cross-functional teams to address complex technical or operational problems.
• Provides leadership, coaching, direction, guidance, and advice to others with a wide range of influence on many levels of decision making.
• Has established effective working relationships and credibility with employees, contractors, customers, functional groups, and internal and external peers.
• Proactively identify and develop operational guidelines, standards, training, and strategic plans that help the customer sustain identified improvements.
• Manages project budgets, including processes accruals and communicates anticipated changes in the budget.
• Understands various corporate financial statements and can differentiate how project implementation will impact the rate payer versus the shareholder.
• Understands income statement and balance sheet pro forma analyses and the implications of technical inputs to the pro forma, understanding of shareholder and customer impacts.
• Supports generation facility outages.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering program that is accredited through the Engineering Accreditation Commission.
• 9 years of related experience.
• Project management leadership experience preferred, along with ability to deal with subcontractors and cross-functional teams; recognized as having expertise in a particular area of the discipline.

Skills

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels within the organization and external stakeholders.
• 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: Condition Monitoring, Continual Improvement Process, Cost Optimization, Design Specifications, Inspection Management, Power Engineering, Predictive Maintenance, Project and Program Management, Records Management, Root Cause Analysis.

Pay & Benefits

• Pay Range: $117,000 - $161,000
• This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.
• Competitive compensation and benefit programs including health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, and paid time off.