Supervisor, Substation Design

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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Company: Entergy

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

** While New Orleans, LA is the preferred location, the hiring team is open to considering candidates based in other areas within Entergy’s service territory, including Baton Rouge, Jackson, Little Rock, and The Woodlands.**

This posting will be used to fill multiple vacancies.

Provides leadership for the engineering design activities for projects within Substation Design. The position supervises employees who prepare the estimates, project scopes, technical drawings, construction specifications, material specifications and requisitions and complete as-built documentation. The supervisor ensures that projects achieve stated objectives, are implemented in accordance with regulatory requirements and company standards, meet established schedules and are completed within approved authorizations and budgets.

• Provides direct supervision to an engineering staff of substation designers, including coaching, training, effective resource management, providing technical guidance and quality assurance.
• Evaluates the resource levels required for current and future workloads;
  Assigns company and contractor staff to accomplish effectively;
  Manages consultants, which includes scope preparation, bid evaluation, cost tracking, invoice approval and processing, and release order preparation.
• Actively participates on a jurisdictional team of supervisors with other functional area supervisors to enhance communication and coordination within the project organization
• Serves as the primary contact for the Grids, Distribution and Project Development for design evaluations, proposals and estimates for studies, customer requests, maintenance and potential projects.
• Develops, maintains and implements substation design standards.
• Responds to substation related regulatory and compliance issues.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience with proven leadership capabilities.

• Extensive knowledge of substation design practices, standards, procedures and processes;
• Thorough understanding of design, planning, project management, operations and/or construction.
• Experience in managing/executing capital and/or O&M projects.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multi-projects simultaneously.
• Capable of moving frequently between multiple tasks, while prioritizing conflicting priorities.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with superiors, colleagues and individuals inside and outside the Company.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and documentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; team player.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint), budgets, financial procedures, and property accounting.

• Preferred
  :
  Professional Engineering license (will vary state by state on requirements; higher management having PE could eliminate the need at lower level).

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Primary

Location:

Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana :
New Orleans || Arkansas :
Little Rock || Louisiana :
Baton Rouge || Mississippi :
Jackson || Texas :
The Woodlands
Job Function
:
Engineering
FLSA Status
:
Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code
: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings
: 3
Req : 125127
Travel Percentage
:

Up to 25%

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