Job Title: Sr Lead-Sr Staff Engineer or Sr Lead-Sr Staff Technical Support Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

                                                               *** This position can be filled as an Sr Lead or Sr Staff Engineer/ Sr Lead or Sr Staff Technical Specialist depending on qualifications and experience. ***

Job Summary/Purpose:

Provide engineering and technical oversight in the various Fossil environments such as:  Plants, Plant support, and Fleet Engineering.

Job Duties/Responisbilities:

• Provide an “expert” level of consultation and complex problem solving associated with instrument and controls equipment to Fossil Plant Operations in areas such as boiler controls, turbine controls, data acquisition systems, combined cycle plant controls, and instrumentation equipment.  Provide quality technical support to analyze equipment or logic failure, assist in tuning, and provide system assessments as required. Provide quality technical support to the analysis of failure mechanism to support quality and timing of the RCA process.
• Develop the data and information necessary to design, implement, and manage “fleet strategies” on power plant controls processes and procedures to suggest the best configuration and technology to replace or address operational issues for 1) Digital Plant Controls systems including Boiler Controls, Burner Management Systems, balance of plant equipment controls, and data acquisition systems, 2) Turbine Control Systems, 3) Combined Cycle Plant control systems.
• Provide an “expert” interface with equipment OEM’s, internal or external engineering personnel for review of system configuration, consultation, problem solving and discussion of best maintenance practices on instrument, and controls equipment.
• Ensure quality design and fabrication of control systems by making plant site or OEM shop visits to review control logic or assist in factory acceptance testing. Support discussions with OEMs that identify issues and gaps and support activities to improve performance.
• Develop and conduct training sessions as requested in the area of plant controls systems or combined cycle plant controls.
• Work with other component experts in Technical Support to provide the information and data to support recommendations to the plant staff and Fossil Operations management on the condition of equipment, maintenance and operating needs of the fleet in the areas of the underlying process failures by leveraging OIS and PI data to develop fact based reports on equipment operation and condition assessments.
• Provide or assist in the development of procedures, specifications, work scopes, schedules, project costs, or identifying the source of technical resources to support replacement of control systems.
• Improve unit performance in the areas of load ramp rate, steam temperature control, pressure ramp rates and stack emissions.
• Active member of peer groups and industry technical groups to promote communication and sharing of best practices between the plants and knowledge transfer from industry groups.
• Support NERC compliance in the areas of turbine governor and cyber security with gathering information and testing procedure development.
• Support the implementation of the risk management processes and tools into the Plant View equipment assessments.

Minimum Requirements-Education:

B.S. Degree in Engineering, Electrical preferred or or minimum of 8 years applicable experience

Minimum Requirements-Experience:  

Sr. Lead Engineer - 8 years of applicable and progressive experience.
Sr. Staff Engineer - 10 years of applicable and progressive experience.
Sr. Lead Staff Technical Specialist  - 8 years of applicable and progressive experience.
Sr. Staff Technical Specialist - 10 years of applicable and progressive experience.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

Technical understanding of Legacy, CCGT and Coal Fleet.  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve conflicts in stakeholder priorities, as well as technical questions.  Strong interpersonal, communication, leadership and organizational skills.  Proactive, self-confident, customer focused, self starter.  Capable of functioning in a highly complex and fluid matrix environment.
 

Working Conditions Essential Functions:

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.

Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 122478
Travel Percentage:25% to 50%

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, 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.

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.

 Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

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.