JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

• Responsible for performing a wide variety of planning, analysis, and project-oriented engineering activities related to ensuring available capacity and risk mitigation within the electrical distribution system in accordance with the Entergy grid modernization strategy.
• Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• • Prepare and maintain the distribution five-year plan and the Joint Transmission and Distribution component of the Transmission plan.
  • Support Transmission Planning and Project Development on high-voltage project optimization.
  • Serve as the Distribution Planning liaison to transmission project management, project design (Transmission and Distribution), and Asset Management Program Design.
  • Provide technical support to distribution design engineers, operations, and managed accounts.
  • Perform circuit coordination studies as required in concert with the distribution automation team.
  • Maintain the SynerGi distribution system analysis model and run load flow analysis to proactively identify potential system issues and generate project proposals to address these modeled issues.
  • Meet with large customers (internal and external) to determine electric needs, requirements, and ability to serve.
  • Develop and maintain the Emergency/Contingency Switching Plans for the assigned area of responsibility.
  • Work directly with customers proposing larger Distributed Generation additions to the system as the Distribution technical adviser.
  • Participate in routine, non-routine, and emergency storm and outage event restoration duties.
  • Role may also include cross-functional optimization with grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor and maintain records of peak substation and circuit loads and perform annual load flow analysis with load forecasts for substation transformers, feeder circuits, and local loads.
• Perform annual overload, voltage, power factor and contingency studies.
• Develop and propose blanket and specific level substation and distribution normal load driven and N-1 contingency projects.
• Provide technical guidance to the Engineering Design Group, Operations and the Distribution Operations Center through the proactive development and maintenance of emergency/contingency switching plans.
• Provide project management for all planned improvements through the use of modeling, load tracking, and alternative analysis.
• Review and recommend for approval electrical system solutions that meet customer needs, comply with company standards and enhance the overall system performance and reliability.
• Participate in meetings with external customers, architects, developers, contractors and government entities to communicate standards and guidelines
• Perform engineering calculations to aid in planning and corrective measure projects.
• Assist with storm restoration efforts, both local and out of town, typically by serving as a Scout or Lead Scout in the initial stages of a storm restoration and provide technical and operational support and/or crew leadership in the later stages of the event.