Project Mgr, Sr Staff

Entergy; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy New Orleans, LLC in New Orleans, LA seeks a Senior Staff Project Manager to drive execution of enterprise priorities, regulatory readiness, and operational performance. You will translate plans into executable field actions, ensuring reliability and budgetary discipline across Centers of Excellence including Operations, Planning, Reliability Performance, and Construction.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field and 5+ years of utility project management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience in utility operations, engineering, construction, or power delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Reliability – coordinates cross-functional project activities to ensure executable plans and monitor capital and O&M reliability initiatives.
• Matrixed Coordination – oversee day-to-day guidance across Construction, Work Management, and Engineering with clear priorities.
• Project Management – define scope, schedules, resources, KPIs, risk mitigation; maintain documentation and status updates.
• Organizational Development – coach and mentor team members; reinforce safety and productivity expectations.
• Storm & Safety – support regional storm response and post-action improvements; ensure safety controls and regulatory reporting.

Skills

Influence leadership

Project management

Communication skills

Financial awareness

Vendor relationships

KPI tracking

Procurement navigation

Coaching

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline

Job description

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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Company: Entergy

PS Job Title: Project Mgr, Sr Staff

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy New Orleans, LLC

Job Summary:

This role supports OpCo leadership by driving execution of enterprise aligned priorities, regulatory readiness, and operational performance. It ensures accurate financial and regulatory reporting, maintains an effective operating rhythm, and advance’s reliability by partnering across the Center of Excellences including Operations, Engineering, Work Management, Construction, Strategic Planning, and Asset Management to translate plans into executable field actions to improve reliability. The role will support the Reliability Vice President over New Orleans with overseeing resource deployment and Productivity KPIs, monitors capital and O&M budgets, and translates plans into executable field actions. It provides day-to-day support in guiding our team in a matrixed environment, strengthening organizational capability through coaching and development, and supports storm response activities by assisting in storm reporting, and comprehensive after-action reviews. The position reinforces safety culture and operational risk controls while driving accountability and execution excellence.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Reliability – Supports system reliability by coordinating cross-functional project activities across the Center of Excellence: Operations, Planning, Reliability Performance, Work Management, Engineering, and Construction. Ensures project plans are executable, aligns crews and schedules, coordinates resource needs, and monitors the quality and progress of capital and O&M reliability initiatives such as the execution of the reliability plan.
• Matrixed Coordination & Accountability – Provides day-to-day project guidance to peers and matrixed partners across Construction, Work Management, and Engineering. Ensures priorities are clearly defined, support needs are understood, and communication with Centers of Excellence remains transparent and consistent. Fosters alignment and accountability among project participants.
• Project Management – Influence peers and leaders to be discipline on executing the Reliability plan using structured project management methodologies. Defines project scope, schedules, resource plans, KPIs, and risk mitigation strategies. Maintains project documentation, prepares status updates, facilitates stakeholder reviews, and financial discipline. Ensure key meetings have agenda, actions are captured.
• Organizational Development – Coaches and mentors team members and project contributors. Conducts routine check-ins, reinforces safety and productivity expectations, and provides constructive performance feedback to support development of high-potential project resources.
• Storm & Safety – Supports regional storm response by assisting with project-related restoration coordination, resource allocation, and operational decision-making. Participates in After-Action Reviews and helps implement continuous improvements. Reinforces adherence to safety standards and operational risk controls including switching, audit/near-miss closure, and serious injury prevention. Ensure all regulatory reporting and notes are captured. Ensure all tools are being used during storm response.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position

• Minimum experience required: 5+ years of project management experience in utility operations, engineering, construction, or power delivery environments, or equivalent experience.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

• Ability to Influence various levels of leadership
• Intricate knowledge of Project Management process and stage gate understanding
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of financial impacts of project plans and importance of timely execution
• Creditable with External vendor network and partnership capabilities
• Ability to track project execution and provide meaningful KPI’s to leadership
• Understanding of asset procurement and navigation of supply chain organizations and process to improve procurement efforts to meet project delivery.
• Excellent coaching capabilities at various levels of the organization

Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans

Job Function: Corporate

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Number of Openings: 1

Req ID: 125520

PS Job Title: Project Mgr, Sr Staff

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets.

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 our 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.

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 [e-mail] to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects our 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.