Entergy · 8 hours ago
Engineer, Sr Staff (Trans) 1
New Orleans, LA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expEntergy is a leading energy provider, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in the Transmission department. This role involves leading technical design and analysis of protection schemes, ensuring compliance with engineering standards, and driving reliability improvements for transmission and distribution systems.
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Responsibilities
Lead technical design and analysis of protection schemes, relay settings and system coordination for transmission and distribution systems
Lead, manage and oversee CIP-014, TPL-001, PRC-006 reoccurring projects and any other initiatives ensuring timely completion
Develop and manage workflows on remote relay settings implements, PRC-027 PGEN reviews. Assist engineers in being successful
Serve as technical SME for complex protection issues, provide guidance to engineering, operations and field personnel
Quality review root-cause analysis of misoperations, drive corrective actions and extent of conditions considering feasibility limitations and financial impacts
Drive reliability improvements by identifying trends and leading actions and implementing solutions aligned with company’s objective
Assist engineers on complex protection, compliance tasks ensuring timely delivery with quality
Engage with internal and external customers via appropriate channels, on technical meetings and on reliability events with investigation findings
Establish and enforce alarm management expectations between Design Basis, Capital Projects, IT, and Power Delivery to ensure alarms are meaningful, prioritized, and actionable
Monitor and assess Alarm activities for SCADA system and assist engineers in identifying and troubleshooting persistent, nuisance, and critical alarms that pose threat to equipment or system reliability
Lead and assist investigation on high priority or recurring critical alarms, engaging TCC and Field personnel, determining route cause and implementation corrective actions across engineering, operations and field organizations
Coordinate with operations and field personnel to ensure alarms are acknowledged, escalated and resolved per the Alarm Management Procedure
Drive construction group to resolve any new alarms triggered due to new projects or a change in existing configuration
Support TCC & DOC Control Centers with alarm response guidance ensuring compliance with Entergy reliability standards and NERC requirements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering
At least 12 years' experience without PE or MS. Or 10 years of experience with PE or MS
At least 10 years' of experience without PE or MS. Or 8 years of experience with PE or MS
Strong interpersonal skills and leadership behaviors
Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology to transmission line and transmission/distribution substation design, construction and/or operations
Advanced critical thinking skills and capability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
Adept in complex problem solving; able to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
Preferred
Advanced degree is in Electrical Engineering with Relay and Protection focus area is preferred
Desired: PE License in ECE
Company
Entergy
At Entergy (NYSE: ETR), we power life.
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Funding
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$1.3B2025-03-17Post Ipo Equity· $1.3B
1985-05-03IPO
Leadership Team
Drew Marsh
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