Entergy Corporation

Engineer I-Sr- Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer

Entergy Corporation • $80K — $95K *
New Orleans, LA 70119In-Person
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 0-2 years of relevant engineering experience, depending on level.
  • Proven ability to apply engineering principles in work.
  • Understanding of standards and procedures in transmission.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficiency in project management and math skills.
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks and work safely.

Responsibilities

  • Implement risk control processes in transmission regarding construction and maintenance phases.
  • Conduct technical reviews of work strategies and documents for protection and control.
  • Evaluate construction strategies to minimize outage durations.
  • Identify and manage risks by reviewing project documentation.
  • Develop procedures and training materials for risk management across teams.
  • Lead discussions on risk profiles in project meetings.
  • Collaborate with design and construction engineers to enhance project reliability.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Supportive team environment fostering collaboration.
  • Focus on safety and regulatory compliance.
  • Engagement in critical projects impacting energy transmission.
  • Participation in risk management and engineering excellence initiatives.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Engineer I-Sr- Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Louisiana, LLC

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

Provide technical reviews of work documents, strategies, and plans, including Protection and Control documents/prints, around the construction or maintenance phase as part of implementing the risk assessment process for all aspects of transmission work which could impact critical customers; Nuclear fleet, Industrial Customers, and other strategic customers. The primary focus of the risk assessment processes is identification of risk and ensuring eliminating or mitigating practices are implemented as applicable.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Implements risk control processes throughout transmission by providing input and direction to other groups on the interpretation of the process and procedure for all aspects of the Capital and O&M portfolio which could impact nuclear, industrial customers and other strategic customers. Implementation also involves fulfilling the following:
    • Provide/develop technical reviews of work strategies and documents pertaining to execution of work tasks being performed by all organizations within transmission.
    • Review documents developed to execute protection and control projects and/or maintenance tasks for accuracy pertaining to existing protection schemes and relay prints.
    • Apply knowledge of engineering principles as it pertains to protection and control.
    • Review outage durations to ensure they are appropriate and that no additional opportunities exist to shorten based on scope of work.
    • Review construction strategy to best reduce outage exposure and identify alternative construction practices that may reduce this exposure.
    • Identify risk by reviewing drawings and supporting documents associated with the work planned to take place and ways to manage, mitigate, or eliminate risk while identifying potential work bundling opportunities
    • Identifying mitigations that may include reviewing work instructions, isolations, station onelines, and by-pass options.
    • Serve as a primary contact for questions related to completing risk assessments while working in a team environment evaluating the reliability risk associated with activities in one or more of the following key areas; relay protection schemes, operations and planning, substation and transmission line practices
    • Lead, participate and/or develop procedures, metrics and training materials supporting implementation of risk processes across all of Transmission assets, as well as challenge transmission organizations, including Grid and Capital Projects, to apply consistent risk control process. These organizations will be challenged by asking them project specific questions pertaining to the above mitigations as necessary.
    • Lead critical evolution meetings with all necessary stakeholders centered on the risk profile of the tasks and projects being evaluated
    • Provide input to design engineers, construction engineers, planning, and project managers on ways to reduce the reliability risk while developing their project scope of work.
    • This input will consist of identifying when long duration outages add exposure to critical customers and when design engineers and construction engineers will need to develop alternative construction strategies.
    • Actively participate in project team meetings to discuss risk profiles in early development stages of proposed projects

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's degree in engineering Discipline (typically Electrical or Computer Engineering) from a four-year accredited institution.
Degrees in engineering technology (typically Electrical or Computer Engineering) from a four-year accredited institution with PE maybe considered.
Preferred: Electrical Engineering Degree

Minimum Experience:
  • Engineer I: 0 - 2 years of experience in an engineering discipline
  • Engineer II: 2 - 4 years of experience in an engineering discipline
  • Engineer III: 4 - 6 years of experience in an engineering discipline
  • Engineer Sr.: 6 + years of experience in an engineering discipline
  • Preferred: at least 2 years of experience in an engineering discipline


Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Demonstrated ability to apply engineering principles.
  • Thorough understanding of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area.
  • Good leadership skills.
  • Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent math skills.
  • Excellent project management skills.
  • Good knowledge of Personal Computer operations and related software.
  • Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities.
  • Ability to work well under pressure.
  • Required to work safely and follow all Entergy safety policies and procedures.
  • Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace and have the ability to mitigate the hazards.
  • Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and have the ability to enact change.


Preferred Skills and Abilities:
  • Proficiency in Short Circuit fault analysis and Relay Protection and Controls
  • Strong technical knowledge in designing protection schemes and relay settings for transmission and distribution assets.

Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.
Preferred: PE, FE

Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : The Woodlands
Job Function: Corporate
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 124368
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

About Entergy Corporation

Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power.

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Learn more about Entergy Corporation
Size
1,357 employees
Market Cap
$23.1 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
$1.4 billion
Founded
1913
5 Year Trend
+1.6%
Revenue
$10.1 billion
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