Job Title: Coordinator-Transmission Outage

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

Coord-Transmission Outage Sr is responsible for outage coordination of the transmission and substation facilities within a geographical area for all large projects managed by the Capital Projects Transmission group for Entergy.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Outage coordinator – Capital projects is responsible for all the coordination between PM, CM, EPC, Risk controls, Industrial Accounts, project controls, and Grid etc. to coordinate outages to complete the construction of capital projects.
• To meet the growing load profile with mega loads in Entergy, outage coordinator is required to work with all the personnel involved with the projects, operations, and risk management group and plan all the outages with competing projects and portfolios. Outage coordinator is responsible to coordinate all the upcoming project related outages several years down the road in the very FEL activities.
• Represent the Capital Projects Group in project scoping meetings, integrating project outages into the overall transmission outage schedule.
• Work closely with geographical area outage coordinators to manage and adjust outages. Attend weekly meetings hosted by system outage coordinators to review all outages.
• Insure all project related outage request are entered in Transmission’s Outage Management System in a timely and efficient manner. Perform weekly reviews of all outages entered for CP-T projects.
• Determine the impact on customer reliability and provision of transmission service associated with planned outages and recommend risk mitigation strategies where appropriate.
• Coordinate outages with the work schedules of Transmission personnel and/or the work schedules of external groups and in conjunction with outage requests.
• Negotiate commitment of Entergy resources for projects involving external parties.
• Responsible for providing a safe work environment for Entergy employees, contractors, customers, and the general public by evaluation of outage requests and communicating instructions so that switching orders are correctly prepared by TCC dispatchers with adherence to Entergy's switching and tagging guidelines.
• Draft policies or procedures related to outage coordination by utilizing efficiency methods and applicable safety procedures by participation on Entergy committees charged with enacting such policies or procedures.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 3 years substation, transmission operations or equivalent experience

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• None

Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.

• None

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Primary Location: Arkansas-Little Rock Arkansas : Little Rock || Louisiana : Baton Rouge || Louisiana : New Orleans || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : Woodlands 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status:  
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 2
Req ID: 119350
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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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.

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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.