Engineer I-Senior- Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer

Entergy; The Woodlands (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A utility services company located in The Woodlands, Texas, seeks a Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer. The role focuses on providing technical reviews and risk assessments concerning transmission work affecting critical customers. Responsibilities include evaluating protection schemes, leading risk profile meetings, and collaborating with engineers. This full-time position offers onsite flexibility and up to 25% travel. Ideal candidates will have strong engineering knowledge and risk mitigation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Experience in risk assessment and understanding of protection and control is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical reviews of work documents and strategies.
• Review documents for accuracy in protection schemes.
• Identify risks in planned work and suggest mitigations.
• Lead meetings on risk profiles and project evaluations.

Skills

Knowledge of engineering principles

Risk assessment processes

Technical review abilities

Ability to lead meetings

Understanding of protection and control systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Title

Engineer I‑Sr‑ Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer

Workplace Flexibility

Onsite

Legal Entity

Entergy Services, LLC

Job Summary / Purpose

Provide technical reviews of work documents, strategies, and plans, including Protection and Control documents/prints, around the construction or maintenance phase as part of implementing the risk assessment process for all aspects of transmission work which could impact critical customers; Nuclear fleet, Industrial Customers, and other strategic customers. The primary focus of the risk assessment processes is identification of risk and ensuring eliminating or mitigating practices are implemented as applicable.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Provide/develop technical reviews of work strategies and documents pertaining to execution of work tasks being performed by all organizations within transmission.
• Review documents developed to execute protection and control projects and/or maintenance tasks for accuracy pertaining to existing protection schemes and relay prints.
• Apply knowledge of engineering principles as it pertains to protection and control.
• Review outage durations to ensure they are appropriate and that no additional opportunities exist to shorten based on scope of work.
• Review construction strategy to best reduce outage exposure and identify alternative construction practices that may reduce this exposure.
• Identify risk by reviewing drawings and supporting documents associated with the work planned to take place and ways to manage, mitigate, or eliminate risk while identifying potential work bundling opportunities.
• Identify mitigations that may include reviewing work instructions, isolations, station onelines, and by-pass options.
• Serve as a primary contact for questions related to completing risk assessments while working in a team environment evaluating the reliability risk associated with activities in one or more of the following key areas: relay protection schemes, operations and planning, substation and transmission line practices.
• Lead, participate and/or develop procedures, metrics and training materials supporting implementation of risk processes across all of Transmission assets, as well as challenge transmission organizations, including Grid and Capital Projects, to apply consistent risk control process.
• Lead critical evolution meetings with all necessary stakeholders centered on the risk profile of the tasks and projects being evaluated.
• Provide input to design engineers, construction engineers, planning, and project managers on ways to reduce the reliability risk while developing their project scope of work.
• Input will consist of identifying when long duration outages add exposure to critical customers and when design engineers and construction engineers will need to develop alternative construction strategies.
• Actively participate in project team meetings to discuss risk profiles in early development stages of proposed projects.

Primary Location

Texas – The Woodlands; Louisiana – New Orleans; Mississippi – Jackson; Texas – Woodlands

Job Function

Professional

FLSA Status

Professional

Relocation Option

No Relocation Offered

Number of Openings

1

Travel Percentage

Up to 25%

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.

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.

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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EEI Testing

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SENIORITY LEVEL

Mid‑Senior level

EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Full‑time

JOB FUNCTION

Management and Manufacturing

INDUSTRIES

Utilities