Student Intern, Relay Substation Design, Summer 2026
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Job Location:
New Orleans, LA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity:Entergy Services Inc.-ESI (OLD)
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.
Entergys Project Delivery Departmentis responsible for planning designing constructing maintaining and operating over 15000 miles of transmission lines across the four-state service territory.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects. Review existing relay settings. Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets.
- Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera.
- Model power systems using CAPE. Maintain master model for relay fault analysis. Support wide area coordination. Occasionally use additional tools such as ETAP EMTP and Hypersim.
- Develop relay settings for substation protective relays. This includes performing fault studies and developing relay settings for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects.
- Works with field groups distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
- Perform activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required.
- Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
- Support development of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) configurations.
- Participate in substation visits. Provide technical support and protection system expertise in response to operational/commissioning requests from field personnel.
- Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
- Support protection standard development and implementation as required.
- Investigate impact of relay firmware and software changes to Entergy system applications. Develop and update templates as appropriate.
- Update group databases such as power line carrier frequency database and transmission line rating database.
- Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings.
- Participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects.
- Improve departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
- Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.
Educational Requirements:
- Must be actively pursuing a bachelors masters or doctorate degree as indicated below:
- Seeking an Electrical Mechanical and/or Civil engineering major.
- Junior and Senior candidate with graduation dates of December 2024 and beyond preferred. (Must be classified as a sophomore at minimum.)
- Cumulative GPA of a 3.0 or higher is required (on a 4.0 scale).
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Primary Location: Louisiana-New OrleansTexas : Woodlands
Job Function: Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status: Nonexempt
Relocation Option:
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 120953
Travel 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.
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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.
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Public Relations
- Google Docs
- Data Collection
- MailChimp
- Microsoft Word
- Dermal Fillers
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Photoshop
- Writing Skills
About Company
Entergy is an integrated energy company that provides electricity to 3 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We power life.
