Program Mgr, SMOC

Program Manager, SMART Operations (Fleet Outages)

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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 splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

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, cleaner, and 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.

We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro, solar and petroleum coke plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities

Role is responsible to act as the lead for coordinating Power Generation’s (PGen) fleet outage plans and changes to the those plans for other Business Unit (BU) changes, Maintenance and Test outages. This includes overseeing and coordinating all the information necessary for semi-annual AREAS planning meetings, providing inputs for and resolving potential issues raised by the annual PRA auction, and acting as the point of contact (POC) for the outage portfolio.

POC duties include liaising with the jurisdictional resource planning organizations, grid operations, market operations (EMO), System planning and operations (SPO), Nuclear, Transmission Operations and Planning (TOP), MISO and the ROCC/PMAC on emergent issues.

Role would provide analytics related to long term outage planning including PRA auction strategies and results. Support of analysis and studies for life extensions and acquisitions is expected.

Role would support the Outage Planning Process. This includes maintenance of user and outage databases in the Outage Portal, pre and post outage data requests for unit outages and analysis related to outage performance.

Candidate needs to have at least 10+ years of operations experience in various types of power generation (e.g., drum type, supercritical, CCGT etc.) and knowledgeable in operating generation assets in a competitive market such as MISO or SPP.

Preferred:
Candidate should have deep knowledge of all fuel types and the overall fleet outage strategy. Deep functional knowledge of plant and market operations is also desired.

High School graduate with demonstrated experience in power plant operations, power plant systems, power generation policies and market operations.

Preferred:
Advanced technical certification or bachelor’s technical/engineering degree or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position

• 10+ years of experience in utility operations
• demonstrated leadership over reports and/or individuals
• Relevant experience including coordination of outages and

• Ability to manage and develop fleet summaries of the PGen outage portfolio through PCI, Power BI Reports, and excellent cross-functional review facilitation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills necessary to develop relationships with the market, OpCo, grid…