Planner​/Scheduler -Sr

Company: Entergy

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Arkansas, LLC

This position will be filled as a Planner/Schedule Coordinator, Planner/Schedule Coordinator II, or Planner/Schedule Coordinator, Sr based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.

JOB SUMMARY/

PURPOSE:

Manages the planning and scheduling of all maintenance and repair activities to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the Transmission System, secures available manpower and schedules activities in accordance with Transmission’s Work Management System, performs long‑range planning for outage maintenance tasks, develops integrated outage schedules for all outage tasks, and schedules emergent repairs to the Transmission System, ensures all work is completed in accordance with Entergy procedures and within compliance guidelines (SoX), ensures all SERC related work tasks are scheduled and completed within required periodicity and documentation is completed, works with Grid Engineers and Project Managers in planning and scheduling substation capital construction projects, performs long‑range planning for construction projects that require scheduled outages and develops integrated outage schedules for all outage tasks, interfaces with internal groups such as Project Management and Construction, Major Accounts, Asset Management, Transmission Control Center, Transmission Design Engineering, Distribution Operations Center, Distribution Operations, and Transmission Operational Planning, and additionally works with external customers and other utilities to schedule work.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs all maintenance planning activities to ensure the correct outage and manpower resources are available to support preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance activities prior to them being scheduled.
• Utilizes Maximo and Click to accomplish the following:
  • Manages, prioritizes and schedules all maintenance activities for their respective Grid
  • Coordinates all substation switching
  • Screens and consolidates work orders for projects
  • Manages the exceptions associated with the schedule that Click generates
  • Maintains and performs updates on scheduled work, resolves time‑constraint conflicts, identifies variances, develops explanations to schedule changes, monitors close‑out tasks, and sends reminders as needed
  • Identifies Click schedule errors, analyzes alternatives, and recommends solutions to schedule conflicts
  • Creates work orders for tasks that do not auto‑generate
• Coordinates and leads weekly scheduling conferences with local management personnel, adjusts schedules and work plans as necessary based on stakeholder feedback.
• Serves as a member of the Incident Response Team to support storm events.
• Utilizes TOMS to submit outages.
• Ensures Energization Notices are sent per procedure.
• Responsible to enable assets in Maximo and set maintenance templates.
• Ensures all outstanding work is documented with a current work request detailing the required scope of work.
• Ensures all completed work requests are closed out showing a detailed description of work completed and man hours logged against each task.
• Performs long‑range planning for outage preventive/corrective maintenance tasks.
• Develops annual plans that lay out the intended execution of all grid portfolio tasks.
• Plans and schedules Capital Project Portfolio for the Grids to include resource allocation, outage requests, and material procurement.
• Schedules and coordinates all SERC required maintenance tasks and ensures proper close‑out of the work tasks.
• Performs long‑range planning and coordination with major industrial customers and Nuclear Power Plants to perform all required preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Develops annual plans that lay out the intended execution of all grid portfolio tasks.
• Plans and schedules Capital Project Portfolio for the Grids to include resource allocation, outage requests, and material procurement.
• Schedules and coordinates all SERC required maintenance tasks and ensures proper close‑out of the work tasks.
• Performs long‑range planning and coordination with major industrial customers and Nuclear Power Plants to perform all required…