Manager, Engineering and Technical Services

Job Title:Manager Engineering and Technical Services

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

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

Job Purpose/Summary

This position is responsible for the governance oversight execution and support of planned projects and outages within the power generation fleet. This individual will also provide leadership and direction to a team of direct reports that include regionally located outage superintendents and technical personnel.

Primary Duties & Areas of Responsibility:

• Active member of the Engineering and Technical Services Lead Team shaping policy for all employees in the organization.
• Develop and update staffing plans for site project portfolios multiple times a year
• Overseee coach mentor and monitor performance of teams in the process of planning and executing projects assigned to their region
• Implementing Programmatic Guidance aligned with Technical Program Management
• Oversee and provide leadership for technical programs such as Predictive Maintenance FAC High Energy
• Piping for the sites in their region as the team implements these in the field.
• Proactively develop a the regional engineering and technical service employees in their group with the dual goal of developing a pipeline of talent for future staff-level technical positions and broadly providing capable employees to serve the needs of the region and fleet as a whole.
• Provide a framework to cultivate outstanding customer service to every Power Generation site and be the provider of choice for technical solutions for the fleet.
• Proactively monitor and enhance the outage planning process for the Entergy Power Generation fleet
• Provide leadership and direction to plant management teams to ensure the outage planning process is utilized to ensure that performance objectives are met or exceeded
• Works closely with plants to ensure project cost scope schedule risk and contracting strategies are developed in planning and delivered in execution
• Act as a system owner for various fleet level technical programs such as winter readiness 5-year budget development LMWHr reduction and equipment condition planning.
• Works with jurisdictional VPs and respective plant managers to ensure effective outage coordination planning and execution
• Responsible for the safety financial performance reliability and compliance of the assigned outages and projects while working closely with the respective plant managers and associated service staff
• Drive safety performance and culture during all work that instills an employee safety mindset that results in a safety culture and an injury free work environment
• Drive and support implementation/adoption of new fleet wide programs processes procedures guidelines and standards for achieving operational and maintenance excellence and cultural change across Power Generation
• Actively involved with ongoing fleet wide continuous improvement
  

Minimum Education required of the position:

• Bachelors degree preferably in a technical field or equivalent work experience

Minimum Experience required of the position:

• 10 years in plant operations or equivalent work experience; 5 years of which are in a leadership role
• Desired:candidate with relevant plant outage management and stage gate process experience remote workforce experience

Minimum knowledge skills and abilities required of the position:

• Physical capability to perform plant site walkdowns / assessment reviews and provide in-field outage modification project and staff oversight.
• Ability to travel regularly to sites under within their region

Primary Location: Mississippi-JacksonLouisiana : Monroe
Louisiana : New Orleans
Mississippi : French Camp
Job Function: Nuclear
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 122467
Travel Percentage:25% to 50%

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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.