Civil/Mechanical Design Engineer, I-Sr Lead

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Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI 

At Entergy, we power life today and for future generations. With approximately 5,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity, Entergy has a proud history of producing nuclear clean air electricity.

Our nuclear safety culture is strong, and our performance record has proven us to be a clean, reliable, and affordable provider of electricity for our household customers in our utility areas of the southern U.S. and to our commercial customers in other parts of the country.

Entergy Nuclear is a business unit of Entergy Corporation that employs approximately 4,000 highly skilled and dedicated professionals. As a community partner, we are invested in the economic success of the towns, schools, and families we support in five states.

We invite you to learn more about Entergy Nuclear and the nuclear clean air energy that we supply for our nation. Entergy Nuclear Fact Sheet

*This position may be filled as an Engineer I, II, III, Sr. or Sr. Lead based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate. *

Job Summary/Purpose

Provides support to design bases by focusing on design of baseline modifications and design basis control and maintenance. Design integrity maintained through effective configuration control of design output documents (i.e., specifications, calculations, drawings, test requirements and procedures).

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Deliver timely, constructible, economic and maintenance friendly modification designs in support of plant needs
• Interfaces with Maintenance and Operations for cost effective maintenance strategies.
• Issues engineering changes (Design changes and temporary modifications) to support emergent plant issues and equipment reliability issues.
• Implements action plans of senior team members to address deficiencies via the corrective action and work management processes.
• Supports changes in system configuration/design and design basis.
• Serves on outage engineering support teams.
• Attends training and maintains qualifications necessary to perform required group functions.
• Coordinate project design engineering activities with plant departments to minimize plant and system downtime and maximize plant power generation.

Minimum Requirements:                                                                                   

Minimum education required of the position                                                                       

• B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering preferred.  Or having another closely related scientific discipline/physical science degree generally associated with power plant operations or equivalent work experience (equivalent experience defined as demonstrated success at the engineer/technical specialist level.) is required.

Minimum experience required of the position

• Engineer I: 0 – 2 years experience in nuclear power design, operations, or equivalent, depending upon engineering level
• Engineer II: 2 – 3 years experience in nuclear power design, operations, or equivalent, depending upon engineering level
• Engineer III: 3 – 4 years experience in nuclear power design, operations, or equivalent, depending upon engineering level
• Sr. Engineer - 4 - 5 years experience in nuclear design, operations, or equivalent, depending upon engineering level
• Sr. Lead Engineer - 6+ years experience in nuclear design, operations, or equivalent, depending upon engineering level and evaluation of past positions

• Highly Desired: Experience with reinforced concrete structure design and construction.
• Highly Desired: Experience with structural steel platform design and construction. 

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• Identifies and resolves plant issues and acts as a liaison between engineering team and Operations and Maintenance departments.
• Technical understanding of nuclear generation principles and operation.
• Outstanding communication, conflict management, and change management skills. Proficiency with current computer business applications.                                                                                                           

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

• Desired: SRO license or certification on a PWR or BWR; Professional Engineering license.

OTHER ATTRIBUTES

• Functional Knowledge Requires understanding and application of procedures and concepts within Civil/Structural engineering disciplines and basic knowledge of other disciplines.
• Experience in ASIC structural steel design and ACI reinforced concrete design code. 
• Able to create and verify detailed calculations and review drawings created by others.
• Preferred: Experience in using computer design software (e.g. GTStrudl)

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Primary Location: Arkansas-Russellville Arkansas : Russellville 
Job Function: Nuclear
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 112134
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.