Grow your career with Alliant Energy!

At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. Our employees make a difference every day by using their personal energy to bring this purpose to life.

Come join our Strategic Project team and take the next step in your career!  As Lead Engineer, 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 entity. In this role you act as a final check point between the engineering and the construction of the projects.

This is a hybrid position with occasional travel to project sites reporting from Madison, WI, or Cedar Rapids, IA.  Other areas within the Alliant Energy service territory may be considered.

Job Summary:

Lead Engineer - Power Generation performs a variety of highly technically or complex advanced engineering work using a variety of complex tools and resources to solve problems in a developed area(s) of expertise of the business. This position will include one or more of the following: designs, plans, constructs, installs, operates, monitors, evaluates and maintains structures, facilities, systems, equipment, machinery, and components used in generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of energy for domestic, commercial, residential, and industrial consumption. This role provides training and guidance to applicable stakeholders, works with all levels of personnel in the company, and provides leadership, coaching, direction, guidance, and advice to affect a wide range of influence on many levels of decision making. This role regularly mentors less experienced personnel.

What you will do:

• During project planning phase, manage the process to develop scope of work sections for Request for Proposals (RFPs).
• Review, or facilitate the review of, project civil/structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls system drawings and specifications, ensuring they are in accordance with project requirements.
• Coordinate engineering drawing reviews with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) to ensure new systems meet internal specifications and standards.
• Respond to Request for Information (RFIs), design changes, and change orders.
• Review or facilitate the review of all final deliverables such as O&M Manuals, As-build drawings, spare parts lists and punch list items.
• 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.
• 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.