Job Title: Maintenance Team Leader

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI 

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. 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

The Team Leader, maintenance reports directly to the plant manager. The successful candidate directs, leads, and supervises a team of maintenance and technical support personnel at a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant while sharing responsibility for its safe, efficient, and reliable operation. This position’s primary responsibility is to oversee the maintenance program of the plant including both routine and outage work. This position oversees, manages, optimizes and fully implements Integrated Planning Process. Outage oversight responsibilities include both planning and execution phases. This position champions development of the multi-year tactical and strategic project identification and budgeting processes. The team leader, maintenance effectively manages maintenance issues to support system needs, evaluates performance of and develops direct reports, maintains high standards of diversity and inclusion, ethics and integrity, and drives continuous improvement by serving as a champion of change. 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for safety, compliance, budgeting, reliability, and all other aspects of the maintenance program of the plant.  Provides direction to operational/maintenance personnel, schedules resources, and manages staffing issues. Provides leadership for and the development of direct reports to embrace a culture of strong fundamentals of operation and maintenance. Embraces human performance improvement initiatives. Assures that plant operations/maintenance personnel comply with safe work practices and processes, comply with plant procedures, and efficiently and effectively operate and maintain the plant equipment
• Ranks and prioritizes reliability and financial risks using data analysis and historical and predictive maintenance information from both internal and external industry sources.  Works with Fleet Maintenance group in overseeing long-range and detailed planning and execution of Power Generation unit outage, including management of cost, schedule and safety processes for outage scope
• Responsible for preparing and planning near-term and strategic maintenance budget.  Provides and supports budget/project development and cost control for short range work plans and long-range strategic planning.  Prepares and manages budget in assigned area to leverage the financial process to manage deviations from the approved annual budget
• Collaborates with Planning and Operations personnel and assigns resources to address emerging maintenance issues.  Initiates and provides leadership in respect to contract management/contractor oversight for routine and outage work.  Staffs and manages routine, planned, emergency, and reserve outages as well as assigned projects. Develops schedule and budget related to routine maintenance and planned outages
• Interfaces with other members of plant management team to drive resolution of key issues impacting business processes, budget, maintenance strategies, outage scope, schedule and costs for facilities.  Evaluates and champions gap closure actions that are consistent with the company's overall business strategy.  Leads site teams to identify and implement maintenance strategies and funding needs for equipment processes
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external interfaces and key strategic alliance partners.  Maintains an awareness of the latest industry research and practical application to drive continuous improvement

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum education required of the position:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Desired:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as engineering or equivalent work experience (e.g. 10 yrs of power plant experience with at least 5 years of maintenance experience)

Minimum experience required of the position:

• Without degree: 10 years of Power Plant experience with at least 5 years of maintenance experience
• With technical degree: 5 years of Power Plant maintenance experience
• Desired:
  • Experience with Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plants
  • Prior supervisory or other leadership experience

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position:

• Knowledge of power plant operating and maintenance practices, equipment maintenance strategies, lockout /tagout or tagging procedure and other safety procedures
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with contractors and outside agencies
• Possess excellent oral, and written communication skills as well as computer skills
• Ability to build a strong team through leadership and interpersonal skills
• Ability to actively engage subordinates and other plant personnel to strive for operational and maintenance excellence
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• History of strong accountability for results

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

• None

Primary Location: Arkansas-El Dorado Arkansas : El Dorado 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 117707
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.  41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.