Engineer, Electrical Engineering

Location: Flora, Mississippi, United States

Company: Entergy

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Mississippi, LLC

Provides engineering support to Area Substation personnel. Performs a wide variety of planning, maintenance, design engineering, project management, construction, and operations activities related to routine, non‑routine, and emergency restoration duties. Project areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis. Prior experience in Transmission Protection Systems, NERC PRC-005 regulations, and RTU/SCADA systems is preferred.

• Performs a wide variety of detailed engineering analysis in Substation-related areas such as planning, maintenance, design, project management and construction, and operations.
• Uses engineering/technical principles, best practices, and knowledge of internal and external business issues to solve problems, develop cost‑effective, technically sound solutions, and improve products or services.
• Applies knowledge of engineering principles in evaluating alternatives, making decisions, and interpreting/employing applicable electrical codes, procedures, standards, processes, and policies.
• Provides engineering and technical support to Entergy Mississippi Area Substation personnel in the group’s day‑to‑day performance of diagnostic and preventive maintenance tasks in the areas of system protection, SCADA/RTU, Communications, disturbance monitoring, substation automation and risk reviews.
• Supports activities to comply with applicable industry standards (i.e., NERC, SERC, CIP) and other utility regulations, as required.
• Works with other disciplines within the Transmission organization and other company business units to achieve stated goals.
• Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary.
• Serves as Transmission Point of Contact with Grand Gulf Nuclear Station on all related work, activities, and outage response.
• Provides power‑quality analysis for transmission grid and industrial accounts.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Discipline (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four‑year accredited institution.
• Degrees in Engineering Technology (typically, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four‑year accredited institution with PE may be considered.
• Preferred: 4‑year Electrical Engineering Degree.
• Engineer I: 0–2 years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Engineer II: 2+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Engineer III: 4+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Engineer Sr: 6+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Preferred: Experience with Transmission Protection Systems, Nuclear Generation Switchyards, NERC PRC-005 regulations, RTU/SCADA systems, microprocessors and electrical/mechanical relays, relay settings, testing, and commissioning.

• Technical mastery of engineering principles; in-depth knowledge of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area.
• Consistently drives for value in sound engineering decisions, mentors other engineers and technical professionals.
• Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Good knowledge of computers, microprocessors, 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: EIT, PE.

Mississippi – Flora, Mississippi :
Flora

Engineering

Professional

Level II

NON BARGAINING UNIT – NBU

1

123915

Up to 25%

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