Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Mississippi, LLC
JOB SUMMARY :
This position is responsible for developing and coordinating work plans and schedules for the Capital, Incremental, O&M, and Failure work performed in substations for the Mississippi Grid. The manager is also responsible for ensuring that tasks are planned and scheduled in a timely manner and adequate time and resources are allocated to complete the work safely and in compliance with NERC Reliability Standards.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES :
+ Leads the Grid Planner / Scheduler organization and manages the work management process for the Grid
+ Champions the Tier 1 and/or Nuclear maintenance programs for the Grid
+ Champion the AM Work Management Process within the Grid
+ Provide oversight of required SERC maintenance tasks to ensure they are executed within established intervals
+ Ensure transmission protection system failures and maintenance activities are properly evaluated and performed in accordance with established procedures
+ Provide direct supervision to engineering, technical specialist, planner/scheduler and analytical personnel, including development of substation design packages, calculations, drawings, standards, and engineering evaluations, for capital blanket projects
+ Assist Asset Management in development of the annual capital and O&M work plans
+ Manage the development and implementation of project schedules and ensure they are completed on time, within budget and as designed
+ Provide organizational focus for activities related to SERC/NERC standards for compliance
+ Maintain asset changes in accordance with configuration management requirements and procedures
+ Provide technical analysis and leadership for reliability issues
+ Support routine and emergency response to substation equipment failures and problems including DFR and smart relay support, service restoration and root cause analysis
+ Ensure work is performed in a team environment by interfacing with Transmission Operations Center, Distribution Operations Center, engineering, Project Management & Construction, distribution, generation, major accounts, and other internal and external customers
+ Manage substation support material and the mobile equipment fleet to ensure availability is maintained for emergency outages and failures.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :
Minimum Experience and Education :
+ With a BS in Engineering: 8 years of substation related experience, or 6 years of progressive and applicable experience including supervisory experience
+ Without a BS in Engineering: 12 years of substation related experience, or 10 years of progressive and applicable experience including supervisory experience
+ Preferred :
+ Electrical Engineering degree
+ MBA, PMP, PE
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
+ Knowledge of utility safety policies and exceptionally strong commitment to safety
+ Familiar with NERC/FERC/SERC requirements related to utility industry
+ Effective oral and written communication skills at multiple levels of the organization
+ Significant understanding of Substation Work Management System (SWMS), Transmission Automated Outage Request System (TAORS), Paperless Condition Report system (PCRs) or similar software programs
+ Strong background in protective relaying and substation power equipment
+ Available and on-call 24 hours/day to respond to system emergencies, which often require immediate decisions and actions
+ Strong working knowledge of basic computer programs
Primary Location:Mississippi-Flora Mississippi : Flora
Job Function:Professional
FLSA Status:
Relocation Option:No Relocation Offered
Union description/code:NBU
Number of Openings:1
Req ID:122982
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%
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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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