Senior Manager, Risk and Reliabilty

Job Title: Senior Manager, Risk and Reliability

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Louisiana, LLC

The Senior Manager, Risk & Reliability provides strategic direction for the organization focused on identifying and mitigating risks associated with work execution that may compromise the reliable operation of the transmission system while ensuring holistic support and direction are taken on equipment issues. This role leads and develops a team of engineers responsible for maintenance engineering, project management support, operations engineering, and emergency restoration activities across transmission and distribution assets.

The position drives operational excellence for transmission protection devices and distribution electronic devices, supporting all 81 Networks, 21 Grids, and all Capital Projects. The manager provides technical guidance to SMEs who support Power Delivery Construction, Grid teams, Power Generation and Nuclear BUs on technical aspects of transmission equipment and influences adherence to multiple NERC standards.

• Challenges the transmission organization to apply consistent risk control processes to Capital Projects and Maintenance activities across the transmission system ensuring Bulk Electric System (BES) reliability, overseeing the development of procedures, performance metrics and training materials to support the adoption of consistent risk control processes in all transmission functions.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders across the organization including the Transmission Grids, Capital Projects, Commissioning, Project Management, Control Centers, AM Strategy, Design Engineering, Industrial Accounts, and Distribution Networks to ensure quality technical support is provided timely and alignment on deliverables is achieved, brings awareness to systemwide deficiencies, leads cross‑functional efforts, presents strategic solutions, and aligns organizational initiatives to close gaps.
• Provides strategic oversight of the organization responsible for reviewing and challenging field execution plans through a risk mitigation lens while determining execution readiness of certain capital and maintenance projects and tasks, and provides recommendations for modifying execution plans to minimize and/or eliminate risk.
• Collaborates with nuclear leadership to ensure alignment of approach in mitigating risk to Entergy’s nuclear generating facilities for both planned and emergent work, and serves as a liaison to Nuclear for Power Delivery on all nuclear procedures and agreements pertaining to transmission.
• Serves as the system owner of NERC standards PRC‑004 and PRC‑002 while supporting sections of NERC standards TPL‑001, PRC‑005, 006, 012, 023, 026, 027, CIP‑014, and NUC‑001, driving organizational knowledge and adherence to internal procedures and NERC standards.
• Facilitates technical support with around the clock availability for all transmission protection and control equipment, transmission line, and substation physical equipment issues, including the development of emergency relay settings and providing mutual support for transmission type equipment owned by Nuclear and Power Generation.
• Provides guidance and direction to the team responsible for developing settings for all Distribution electronic devices across all 81 Networks, driving initiatives and strategic direction to reduce customer interruptions through the deployment and maintenance of electronic distribution devices.
• Serves in the Incident Command Structure during major events as a leader providing strategic direction and coordination in the system planning section.
• Serves as a change agent to drive innovation and a culture of continuous improvement through increased utilization of technology, performance optimization, and improving reliability, customer service, and reducing cost.
• Able to understand and present complex technical topics with simplification and easy to understand language to audiences ranging from SVP to individual contributors to external industrial customers and seeks alignment with vice presidents to influence and drive organizational improvements.

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