Regional Engineering Manager — Power Reliability & Growth

Entergy Corporation; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy is seeking a Manager, Region Engineering in Lake Charles, LA, to oversee field engineering services across a regional area. You will manage people, budgets, and projects to improve reliability, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth while guiding technical teams.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and 5–8 years of leadership or project management experience, with PE preferred. Onsite work and up to 25% travel are involved, with a focus on operational excellence and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• 5-8 years of experience with proven leadership capabilities or significant project management experience.
• Professional Engineering license strongly preferred (will vary state by state on requirements; higher/lower management having PE could eliminate the need).
• People skills, great communication skills to deal with internal and external customers regularly and employees daily and great attitude to help others, willingness to independently learn, supervisory skills, interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative, management and technical oversight of distribution design and field engineering (Power Quality, Voltage issue resolution, feeder level distribution planning, contingency switching, reliability programs, etc.).
• Manages group resources to achieve group maintenance goals, reliability and financial goals. Manages resources and budget activities to achieve strict compliance with Entergy's guidelines.
• Provides operational support at the jurisdictional and network level to improve customer satisfaction and reliability performance. Provides technical expertise to local Jurisdiction on items arising from local and state regulatory agencies.
• Provides training and coaching to work group to ensure all employees are familiar with Entergy's policies and procedures required to serve customers and comply with all applicable codes for designing and maintaining electrical distribution facilities.
• Manages special/large projects including process development, storm restoration and other ad hoc jurisdictional and system assignments.
• Serves in leadership role during emergency response and storm restoration efforts. Provides oversight of 24/7 engineering response to support operations.
• Overseeing day to day needs of the West Region Engineering workgroup for reliability and resiliency efforts Ensuring customer centricity throughout Leading and developing team members Technical aptitude of basic electricity, understanding of how the utility world operates

Skills

People skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Entergy is seeking a Manager, Region Engineering in Lake Charles, LA, to oversee field engineering services across a regional area. You will manage people, budgets, and projects to improve reliability, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth while guiding technical teams.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and 5–8 years of leadership or project management experience, with PE preferred. Onsite work and up to 25% travel are involved, with a focus on operational excellence and safety.