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Engineer, Sr Staff (Trans) 1

Entergy

Posted 01/27/26

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639 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113

Full-Time
Experienced
Energy and Utilities
In Person

Job Description

This position acts in a lead capacity among peers within a department in a technical discipline, short of supervisor, but with responsibilities on the same level of coordination and/or review. The position works in conjunction with other engineering and operation disciplines and is responsible for system functions such as alarm management support to operations, design and review engineering standards, ensuring quality deliverable, and participating in the technical workforce. Focus of the role will be design/construction of relay protection and controls components, emergency protection and operation support, alarm troubleshooting and resolution, leading initiatives, publishing KPIs, and CIP, TPL and PRC compliance support.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical design and analysis of protection schemes, relay settings and system coordination for transmission and distribution systems.
  • Lead, manage and oversee CIP-014, TPL-001, PRC-006 reoccurring projects and any other initiatives ensuring timely completion.
  • Develop and manage workflows on remote relay settings implements, PRC-027 PGEN reviews. Assist engineers in being successful.
  • Serve as technical SME for complex protection issues, provide guidance to engineering, operations and field personnel.
  • Quality review root-cause analysis of misoperations, drive corrective actions and extent of conditions considering feasibility limitations and financial impacts.
  • Drive reliability improvements by identifying trends and leading actions and implementing solutions aligned with company’s objective.
  • Assist engineers on complex protection, compliance tasks ensuring timely delivery with quality.
  • Engage with internal and external customers via appropriate channels, on technical meetings and on reliability events with investigation findings.
  • Establish and enforce alarm management expectations between Design Basis, Capital Projects, IT, and Power Delivery to ensure alarms are meaningful, prioritized, and actionable.
  • Monitor and assess Alarm activities for SCADA system and assist engineers in identifying and troubleshooting persistent, nuisance, and critical alarms that pose threat to equipment or system reliability.
  • Lead and assist investigation on high priority or recurring critical alarms, engaging TCC and Field personnel, determining root cause and implementation corrective actions across engineering, operations and field organizations.
  • Coordinate with operations and field personnel to ensure alarms are acknowledged, escalated and resolved per the Alarm Management Procedure.
  • Drive construction group to resolve any new alarms triggered due to new projects or a change in existing configuration.
  • Support TCC & DOC Control Centers with alarm response guidance ensuring compliance with Entergy reliability standards and NERC requirements.

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About Entergy

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Entergy exists to grow a world-class energy business that creates sustainable value for our four stakeholders.

• For our customers, we create value by constantly striving for reasonable costs and providing safe, reliable products and services.

• For our employees, we create value by achieving top-quartile organizational health, providing a safe, rewarding, engaging, diverse and inclusive work environment, fair compensation and benefits, and opportunities to advance their careers. 

• For our communities, we create value through economic development, philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy, and by operating our business safely and in a socially and environmentally responsible way. 

• For our owners, we create value by aspiring to provide top-quartile returns through the relentless pursuit of opportunities to optimize our business.