PS Job Title: Project Mgr, Sr Staff
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy New Orleans, LLC
Job Summary: This role supports OpCo leadership by driving execution of enterprise aligned priorities, regulatory readiness, and operational performance. It ensures accurate financial and regulatory reporting, maintains an effective operating rhythm, and advance's reliability by partnering across the Center of Excellences including Operations, Engineering, Work Management, Construction, Strategic Planning, and Asset Management to translate plans into executable field actions to improve reliability. The role will support the Reliability Vice President over New Orleans with overseeing resource deployment and Productivity KPIs, monitors capital and O&M budgets, and translates plans into executable field actions. It provides day-to-day support in guiding our team in a matrixed environment, strengthening organizational capability through coaching and development, and supports storm response activities by assisting in storm reporting, and comprehensive after-action reviews. The position reinforces safety culture and operational risk controls while driving accountability and execution excellence.
Job Duties/Responsibilities: • Reliability - Supports system reliability by coordinating cross-functional project activities across the Center of Excellence: Operations, Planning, Reliability Performance, Work Management, Engineering, and Construction. Ensures project plans are executable, aligns crews and schedules, coordinates resource needs, and monitors the quality and progress of capital and O&M reliability initiatives such as the execution of the reliability plan.
• Matrixed Coordination & Accountability - Provides day-to-day project guidance to peers and matrixed partners across Construction, Work Management, and Engineering. Ensures priorities are clearly defined, support needs are understood, and communication with Centers of Excellence remains transparent and consistent. Fosters alignment and accountability among project participants.
• Project Management - Influence peers and leaders to be discipline on executing the Reliability plan using structured project management methodologies. Defines project scope, schedules, resource plans, KPIs, and risk mitigation strategies. Maintains project documentation, prepares status updates, facilitates stakeholder reviews, and financial discipline. Ensure key meetings have agenda, actions are captured.
• Organizational Development - Coaches and mentors team members and project contributors. Conducts routine check-ins, reinforces safety and productivity expectations, and provides constructive performance feedback to support development of high-potential project resources.
• Storm & Safety - Supports regional storm response by assisting with project-related restoration coordination, resource allocation, and operational decision-making. Participates in After-Action Reviews and helps implement continuous improvements. Reinforces adherence to safety standards and operational risk controls including switching, audit/near-miss closure, and serious injury prevention. Ensure all regulatory reporting and notes are captured. Ensure all tools are being used during storm response.
Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
Minimum experience required of the position- Minimum experience required: 5+ years of project management experience in utility operations, engineering, construction, or power delivery environments, or equivalent experience.
Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position- Ability to Influence various levels of leadership
- Intricate knowledge of Project Management process and stage gate understanding
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of financial impacts of project plans and importance of timely execution
- Creditable with External vendor network and partnership capabilities
- Ability to track project execution and provide meaningful KPI's to leadership
- Understanding of asset procurement and navigation of supply chain organizations and process to improve procurement efforts to meet project delivery.
- Excellent coaching capabilities at various levels of the organization
Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans
Job Function: Corporate
FLSA Status:
Relocation Option:Union description/code:
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 125520
PS Job Title: Project Mgr, Sr Staff
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%
