Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD) 

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone. 

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way. We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.  

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro, solar and petroleum coke plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities. 

* This position may be filled by a Tech Support Specialist III, Sr. or Sr. Lead based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate. *

Job Summary/Purpose

Manages Configuration Management (CM) including the policies, procedures, techniques, and tools that manage, evaluate proposed changes, track the status of changes, and maintain supporting documents and drawings as the system changes. Single point of contact to manage the governance, oversight, and support drafting and document management. Manages drafting support and document management for all Power Generation power plants and ESI groups. Manages drawings and updates associated with major projects including new acquisitions, self builds, and decommissioned sites and ensures inclusion in TRACS. Manages Power Generation TRACS (Technical Records Access and Control System) program that stores over 650,000 drawings and documents.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

1. Manage Configuration Management, drafting and document management procedures and standards for Power Generation.
2. Manage Technical Records Access and Control System (TRACS) for all Power Generation plants and provide expert consultation on the use of TRACS to customers. Problem solves complex issues associated with TRACS and AutoCad. Monitor TRACS for new drafting request and approved requests for smooth workflow through drafting.
3. Ensure compliance with Configuration Management policies and procedures including tracking key process indicators (KPI’s) through audits, data analysis, and surveys.
4. Manage, review, and approve drawing updates with any contract drafters. Manage overall drafting related costs and monitor drafting productivity metrics.
5. Manage and provide consultant services on behalf of the plants with construction vendors doing work at the plants regarding configuration management including major project drawings.
6. Provide expert CAD technical knowledge to promote and assist the plants with their drafting needs in attaining plant goals and targets. Support ESI drafting requests

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Education:

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent experience
• Preferred:
  • 2 year Associate Degree (in a technical field such as computer aided drafting a plus) to a 4 year degree in a technical discipline.

Minimum Experience:

• Tech Support Spec III: at least 4 – 6 years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred
• Tech Support Spec Sr: at least 6 – 8 years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred
• Tech Support Spec Sr, Lead: at least 8 - 10 years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred

Minimum experience desired of the position

Candidate desired experience, 10-15 years of Configuration Management, Drafting, and Document Management experience with electric utility related disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, architectural, civil, electrical, piping, mechanical and instrumentation. Candidate needs background in Power Plant drawings and needs to possess leadership skills working with others and organizing and closing out drawing projects.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

Understanding of Configuration Management(CM) principles and ability to develop procedures and policies to support CM to maintain plant system integrity

Understanding of the Electronic Document Management (EDM) theory and hard copy Document Management filing of multiple drawing number schemes.

Knowledge and understanding of AutoCAD, Microstation, RasterCAD, CADoverlay and CAD software related to Entergy Drafting and EDM (Electronic Document Management).

CAD software knowledge and communication skills to instruct contract drafters and solve drafting problems.

Candidate must learn TRACS software and effectively communicate with Plant customers and ESI Support personnel through their questions using TRACS (Technical Records Access and Control System). Candidate will be responsible for the drawing contents of TRACS.

Knowledge of Entergy Power Plant drafting standards and be able to interface with contractors and vendors, both supplying drawings and receiving drawings.

Knowledge of good drafting practices and be able to check drafter’s work on multi-discipline drawings for completeness and good drafting practices before returning drawings to the plant(s).

Computer skills to effectively use the corporate computer tools provided as our standard tool set, and standard computer codes for complex analysis and problems solving.

Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.:

• None

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Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands || Arkansas : Batesville || Arkansas : El Dorado || Arkansas : Hot Springs || Arkansas : Little Rock || Louisiana : Lake Charles || Louisiana : New Orleans || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : Beaumont 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 118959
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.

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.

 Equal Opportunity

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.