Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

PS Job Title: Project Manager

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX 

Project Manager 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

This position supports Entergy Texas distribution reliability team by managing all reliability project aspects including coordinating schedules, managing budget and ensuring efficiency in all steps.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish project schedules, and track and control project costs and schedules to meet budgets and critical milestones.
• Prepare and conduct management review meetings at critical milestones. Maintain current information on project status in all relevant division and accounting databases.
• Resolve project conflicts that affect cost, schedule, or customer satisfaction, and develop appropriate action and recovery plans. Ensure that the project team utilizes the Capital Projects Process in the development and implementation of capital projects
• Manage a portfolio of reliability projects. Accountable for the coordination of and communication to all project resources, both internal and external.
• Communicate resource status to functional managers and jointly develop contingency plans. Ensure timely closeout of projects, including all required documentation. Provide feedback to functional management on team members' individual performance.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum education required of the position

• High School Diploma
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree

Minimum experience required of the position

• 3-5 years’ experience in Operations, Construction, or Project Management.
• Preferred: 3-5 years electrical utility experience. 

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• Project Management Experience.
• Excellent verbal and written skills. 
• Expresses self well in groups and in one-on-one conversations.
• Proficiency in analytical technical tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Management.

Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands || Texas : Conroe 
Job Function: Corporate
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 124119 
PS Job Title: Project Manager 
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to navigate to 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.

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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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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 Pre-employment Testing:  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, numberLogon 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.