Job Title: Supervisor, Transmission Lines

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Arkansas, LLC 

**This is an onsite position and will be located in the Little Rock, AR area.**

Job Summary/Purpose

This position is responsible for managing all transmission line maintenance and blanket capital activities within the transmission grid. This includes providing leadership to direct reports and company and/or contract crews ensuring they are aware of and maintain safe work practices and procedures at all times.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining the safety culture for transmission line employees and contractors and ensuring a safe work environment exists for all assigned employees and contractors.
• Manage individual contributors, supervisors, including coaching, training, employee development, and effective resource management. Manages contract personnel for transmission line maintenance and inspection contractors, promoting good employee relations, morale and teamwork.
• Manage engineers that develop transmission line design packages, including calculations, drawings, standards, and engineering evaluations, for capital blanket projects.
• Ensure work is performed in a team environment by interfacing with transmission engineering staff, transmission personnel, distribution personnel, generation plant personnel, major accounts representatives and other internal and external customers.
• Engages with Customers, making them aware of work plans that may impact their business. Works with contractors to support various business needs.
• Direct response personnel to address failures and emergency transmission outages. Ensure 24 hour coverage is maintained at all times. Direct root cause analysis and ensure the Consolidated Outage System (COS) is updated.
• Assist Asset Management in development of the annual capital and O&M work plans. Manage the development and implementation of project schedules and ensure they are completed on time, within budget and as designed.
• Manages the Helicopter and UAS programs for Louisiana
• Supports the operations teams during Major and minor storms.  Providing leadership and guidance on resource deployment and execution strategies.
• Supports the engineering team with the development and approval of Risk Assessments.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

• BS degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil) or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position

• 6 years of transmission related utility experience required.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

Available to work irregular hours and to respond 24 hours a day to system events, outages and emergencies (On a weekly rotation with peers). Working knowledge of transmission lines construction and maintenance standards, safety procedures & policies. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks with little direction with a high level of organization. Strong working knowledge of basic computer programs. Excellent written and oral communication skills, organizational skills, strong leadership, decision making and follow through skills. Ability to both lead and work in a team environment across multiple disciplines and work groups. Good knowledge of accounting and contract administration policy and procedures

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Primary Location: Arkansas-Little Rock Arkansas : Little Rock 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 119815
Travel Percentage:25% to 50%

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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.