Supervisor, Gas Construction & Maintenance

Posting End Date:  

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy New Orleans, LLC 

As a safety sensitive position, compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) and Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) drug and alcohol regulations is required, including but not limited to pre-employment drug testing and background screening.

Entergy has entered into an agreement to sell its Louisiana gas distribution business to Bernhard Capital Partners. The sale is expected to close in approximately the third quarter of 2025.  Entergy has no planned reduction in workforce as a result of this sale, and intends to operate the business as usual prior to the sale.  

Job Summary/Purpose

Manage and lead the daily activity of construction and maintenance personnel.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Instill, motivate and promote Safe Work practices and procedures throughout the work group. Ensure adherence to Entergy's Safety Policy by monitoring and enforcing safe work practices and establishing procedures to manage loss control risk.
• Demonstrate leadership on ethics and values and inspires subordinates to consistently adhere to them. Develop and execute performance and productivity metrics for the workgroup. Develop and execute long range planning goals for the department. Direct the work of team members by providing ongoing operational guidance, performance feedback, coaching, and counseling. Establish training and developmental plans for team; review results of completed plans. Achieve operational and customer service excellence by setting and communicating aggressive performance expectations and measuring/monitoring performance levels. Manage/Monitor Contractors to insure safety, productivity, quality and cost metrics are met.
• Manage/ Monitor O&M and Capital Spending to ensure budget targets are achieved. Effectively manage the business by monitoring, analyzing, and making sound financial decisions and uses data analysis and feedback to identify and achieve improvement.
• Ensure restoration (repair and replacement of City streets and sidewalks) work driven by Construction & Maintenance workload is completed in a cost effective, quality and timely manner following completion of underground work. Ensure all (company and contractors) Construction and Maintenance restoration work is completed in accordance City or State ordinances/requirements. Work with external customers including governmental agencies to resolve conflicts, concerns and or complaints related to restoration and reliability activities.
• Maintain strong and effective internal relationships with key internal customers including but not limited to customer service, customer relations, regulatory/governmental affairs, communications and other gas organizations.
• Lead reliability team by ensuring reliability projects are identified and completed on time.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

• Desired: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position

• Minimum 5 years supervisory experience or comparable leadership experience.
  • Desired: 8 plus years’ Gas Construction Experience

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• Possess and demonstrate strong leadership qualities including an ability to set clear expectations, hold people accountable, communicate effectively, lead by example, reward and recognize successes and create an environment of motivated team members focused on achieving excellence in all aspects of the gas business.
• Ability and willingness to serve on the Gas Storm Team as requested.
• Ability and willingness to participate in Duty Rotation for Gas Emergencies.
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills in previous role(s), including safety leadership, planning & organizing, motivation, change management, and effective HR management.
  • Desired:
    • Knowledge / Experience of Gas Distribution Business.
    • Knowledge / Experience of natural gas pipeline operation including underground construction and maintenance.
    • Knowledge of Federal and State Regulations - OPS/DOT Regulations /OSHA.
    • Knowledge of Company written Gas Standards and Procedures.
    • Knowledge / experience with Restoration activities difficult conditions.

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

• None

Other Attributes

• Functional Knowledge - Requires understanding and application of procedures and concepts within own discipline and basic knowledge of other disciplines.
• Business Expertise - Applies understanding of how the team relates to other closely related areas to improve efficiency of own team.
• Problem Solving - Has formal supervisory responsibilities; sets priorities for and coaches employees to meet daily deadlines.
• Impact - Impacts the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team and its contribution to the sub-function.
• Interpersonal Skills - Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: Non-Bargaining 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 114555
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, 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:

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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.