Control Room Operator

Control Room Operator role at Entergy

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Louisiana, LLC

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to now splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas.

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, more prosperous future for everyone.

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way.

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro and petroleum coke plants, with total engineering capacity of over 18,500 megawatts and is building or acquiring more than 3,000 megawatts of new natural gas generation to join its 30,000 megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric and solar facilities.

Serves as the lead person on shift in the operation and maintenance of the systems associated with a fossil fuel fired power generation facility while demonstrating safety awareness, environmental, and regulatory compliance and direction that will continuously improve performance by employees and contractors through the use and strict adherence to procedures and processes. Serve as a contract manager over scheduled work which will include managing the associated budgets.

Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) or Champion over assigned applications or processes such as Risk Management Assessments, PCI/Epower, Simulator Training, etc.

• Serves as the lead on shift and provides work direction to others on shift.
• Ensures assigned work within the plant results in safe and reliable operation.
• Facilitates and coordinates Shift Safety meetings / Job Briefings for all personnel on the same shift.
• Promotes and ensures a safe work environment, including use of Human Performance tools.
• Mentors and provides training to develop other employees in the operations training progression plan.
• Responsible for Contractor Safety on their shift and conducts Contractor Safety Orientations as needed.
• Fills in for Team Leaders in their absence.
• Maintains regulatory compliance and is proactive in avoiding reportable violations and if an event occurs, coordinating with all agencies as appropriate.
• Performs site safety/environmental audits and acts to mitigate hazards.
• Makes real time decisions and provides work direction regarding the operation of the equipment in a safe, efficient and reliable manner.
• Performs startup and shutdown functions of boiler, turbine, generator and associated equipment as required per instructions from the SPO
  - Energy Management Organization.
• When un-planned absences occur after hours, ensures adequate shift coverage through contact of other qualified personnel.
• Upon progression to this level, the employee should have completed all the board operator qualifications and is working as the designated lead control board operator.
• Operational duties include, but are not limited to operating the control board, periodically making operational rounds, performing PM/PDM activities, managing boiler water chemistry, and CEMS monitoring and calibrations.
• Lead the effort to develop and review operating procedures and rounds.
• Applies understanding and knowledge of plant systems, burner controls (where applicable) turbine controls, data acquisition, process controls, regulating devices, personal computers, troubleshooting, etc.
• Applies skills to perform inspections, calibrations, installations, repairs,…