Senior Project Manager (TFE)

About this role

Job Title: Senior Project Manager (TFE) Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD) **This position can be filled in Entergy's service territories of Louisiana or Texas.** JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE: Sr. Project Manager serves as the point of contact for all external generating and wholesale entities seeking transmission interconnection services. This position is additionally responsible for managing the transmission relationship of Entergy’s largest interconnection customers at both the retail and wholesale levels including reliability planning and ongoing maintenance coordination.

Duties

• —/RESPONSIBILITIES: For Nuclear Power Plant Customers: Engage customers and establish routine multi-tier engagement processes for plant/grid and executive levels to understand service needs and discuss common issues.
• —Support the development of transmission maintenance plans that meet customer service expectations.
• —Support metrics to track service expectations.
• —Develop routine review of all operating events impacting nuclear facilities and produce root cause, common cause, and corrective action plans where necessary. For Designated Industrial Customers and Other Special Accounts: Work cross functionally within Entergy and Transmission, develop strategic plans that serve industrial, nuclear, and other specially designated customers.
• —Ensure customers’ expectations are understood and that maintenance and service levels align with customer needs. Advocate on behalf of customers within Transmission to ensure appropriate programs are in place and monitored.
• —Support and execute customer engagement strategies with Entergy’s largest transmission customers.
• —Develop specific customer vulnerability and action plans to ensure key account industrial reliability is met.
• —Develop and maintain key customer agreements including Transmission interconnection agreements, Meter Data Management agreements, Local Balancing Area agreement, Generation Interconnection agreement, Facility Construction agreements, Facility Service agreements and Wholesale Distributions Service agreements.
• —Lead the administration and interpretation of interconnection policies and procedures relative to specific Interconnection agreements.
• —Provide support in regulatory proceedings on matters related to transmission service/interconnections.
• —Provide leadership for the coordination and administration of future reimbursements for transmission facilities for customers such as Cooperative Energy, AECC, Arkansas Cities, CLECO, MDEA, MEAM, AEP, etc. Supports MISO Tariff-related activities applicable to the Entergy Operating Companies. MINIMUM

Education

• —:Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering or equivalent work

Experience

• —.Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

Experience

• —:At least 7 years of progressively responsible

Experience

• —in the utility industry. Preferred:

Experience

• —with Transmission and MISO tariffs.

Experience

• —in project management, engineering or construction. Protection & Control Knowledge;

Experience

• —with Large Industrial Customers;

Experience

• —with Large Data Centers Minimum Knowledge,

Skills

• —, and Abilities: Proficient in developing and reviewing contracts.
• —Strong communicator both at tactical and strategic levels with

Experience

• —discussing complex topics in a simple, easy-to understand way. Demonstrated teamwork

Skills

• —and ability to execute projects in a matrix organization.
• —Strong interpersonal

Skills

• —with the ability to interact with customers at their CEO and General Manager level down to their operating personnel. Solid knowledge of Entergy transmission standards and practices. Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.: Preferred: PMP Certification. Primary Location: Texas-Woodlands Texas : Woodlands || Arkansas : Russellville || Louisiana : Lake Charles || Texas : Beaumont Job Function: EngineeringFLSA Status: Professional Relocation Option: Level IIUnion description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT Number of Openings: 1Req ID: 121820Travel 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, 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-Du