Construction Engineer

Entergy; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy is seeking a Sr Engineer (Utility) to oversee planning, project management, and construction activities including emergency restoration.

The role covers grid design, reliability, and asset management, with onsite responsibilities in Metairie, Baton Rouge, or Lafayette, LA. You will coordinate multi-discipline teams and drive safety, quality, and timely delivery of capital projects.

Qualifications

• Technical mastery of engineering principles.
• In-depth knowledge of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Distribution, Substation, and Transmission Line Construction projects.
• Prepare construction contracts, schedules, and cost tracking.
• Provide engineering field technical support to crews and perform constructability reviews.
• Engage in planning, scoping, and coordination with departments and customers.
• Develop project estimates, resources, and contractual agreements; ensure safety and quality.
• Interface with multiple organizations to manage capital work process and project execution.

Skills

Engineering principles

Standards and procedures

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Engineering Technology Degree with PE consideration

Job description

• This position may be domiciled in either Metairie, Baton Rouge, or Lafayette, LA. **
• This position may be filled as an Engineer III or Sr. based up on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate. **

PS Job Title:

Engineer, Sr (Utility)

Work Place Flexibility:

Onsite

Legal Entity:

Entergy Services, LLC

Job Summary/Purpose

Performs a wide variety of planning, project management, and construction, and operations activities including emergency restoration duties. Project areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Responsible for the coordination of various Distribution, Substation, and Transmission Line Construction projects in different areas of Entergy.
• Responsible for preparing construction contracts, construction schedules, cost tracking, progress reporting and project team coordination within a strong matrix organization to facilitate safe construction of facilities from 13.8kV to 500kV for both internal and external customers.
• Job will require providing engineering field technical support to substation and distribution and transmission line construction crews.
• Job will require technical reviews of Substation (Electrical and Relay Controls) and D-Line and T-Line design - packages issued for construction.
• Responsible for participating in the planning, scoping, and brainstorming sessions with all applicable departments, and a diverse customer base (internal and external).
• The Engineer will continue to participate throughout the entire capital work process by establishing the sequenced schedule duration's outage, coordination, preparing construction estimates, identifying resources (internal or contract), development and preparation of contractual agreements for necessary resources, commitment to fostering, encouraging, and policing all safety measure, performing quality assurance and control, verifying and processing of invoices, completion of as-builts, and project closeout.
• Engineer must be dedicated and committed to providing a safe, quality, and productive work environment conducive to meeting all obligations required by policies, procedures, specifications, and applicable laws of the local, state, and national agencies.
• The engineer shall typically interface with multiple organizations.
• These communications articulate into the Construction Management Engineer performing a wide variety of duties such as, identification of safety hazards, the elimination/mitigation of hazards on projects, environmental stewardship, development of project scopes, development of project estimates, development of construction sequence plans, development of project schedules, performing constructability review, tracking/receiving materials and equipment, requesting contract proposals, identifying and initiating environmental compliance tactics, coordination of schedules, outage identification/coordination, deficiency resolution, quality assurance, reporting cost, issue resolution, and closure of projects.
• The engineer's time allotment is comprised of three major categories:
  • support of the capital work management process @ 40%
  • Compilation of the project and construction execution plan and associated activities @ 40%
  • field inspection for scoping and determining check and adjustments for a successful project completion @ 20%

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from four-year accredited institution.
• Degrees in engineering technology (typically, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution with PE may be considered.

Minimum Experience

• Engineer III: at least 4 years of experience in an engineering discipline
• Engineer Sr: at least 6 years of experience in an engineering discipline
• Preferred: power system, relay, or substation experience.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Technical mastery of engineering principles.
• In-depth knowledge of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area.
• Consistently drives for value in sound engineering decisions.
• Good leadership skills.
• Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills.