Bring YOUR energy to Alliant Energy!
At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build strong communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what’s next in energy. If you’d like to work at a place where you matter and where you can use your talents and passions to advance your career, join the Alliant Energy team!
What sets us apart?
- Competitive pay and an excellent benefits package.
- A dedication to career growth and development.
- A culture that elevates our core values of live safety, do the right thing, care for others, make things better, act for tomorrow, and think beyond – be bold.
- The chance to create a positive impact on our local communities.
We have a great opportunity for a Field Engineering Specialist (can be filled at a higher level). This position can be based in Conroy, Fairfield, Ottumwa or Washington, IA .
The Field Engineering Specialist will support gas and electric projects within our communities in Iowa and will communicate regularly with internal and external customers on these projects.
We are looking for an individual who has proven experience in: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, surveying, excavation, construction project management, residential/commercial construction, public/private utility work.
- This position may be filled up to a senior level.
- This position has a residency requirement of 40 minutes.
- Alliant Energy will not provide sponsorship for an employment visa (e.g. H-1B visa) now or in the future for this position.
Job Responsibilities
- Handles routine customer inquiries and engineering detail using standard operating procedures involving tariff application, extension rules and agreements, service rules, code requirements, service entrance, and metering requirements.
- May be responsible for emergency response in assigned processes.
- Assists in detail planning for work orders including as-builts, preparing estimates and work orders, preparing vital maps and sketches, creating material lists, ensures accuracy of sag calculations, and switching/valve sequence planning.
- Performs a variety of routine field work including, but not limited to locating and sizing services, load determination, distribution easements, staking, and survey work of moderate difficulty, field checks, licenses and joint use applications while adhering to regulatory requirements.
- Tracks and reports work related functions vital to support the business processes including crafting work requests, CIS transactions, and establishing projects in work management, GIS/Mapping System, and various other systems.
- Provide technical support for work requests, resolves technical issues, and ensures crews understand work scope, detail, and structure.
- Works with hourly and salaried supervisors in scheduling work for others.
- Assists distribution engineering in development of project scopes and schedules using project management concepts and software.
