Senior Relay Protection & Risk Controls Engineer

Entergy; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Entergy Louisiana, LLC is seeking an Engineer I-Sr. Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer to perform technical reviews of protection and control documents for transmission projects and outages, ensuring risk is identified, mitigated, and managed across nuclear, industrial, and critical customer assets.

The role emphasizes protecting critical customers by evaluating protection schemes, relay prints and outage durations, while guiding design and construction teams on risk reduction

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from a four-year accredited institution.
• Degrees in engineering technology (Electrical or Computer Engineering) from a four-year accredited institution with PE maybe considered.
• Preferred: Electrical Engineering Degree.

Responsibilities

• Provide/develop technical reviews of work strategies and documents pertaining to execution of work tasks within transmission.
• Review documents to ensure protection schemes and relay prints are accurate.
• Apply engineering principles to protection and control tasks.
• Review outage durations for appropriateness and potential shortening based on scope.
• Identify risk and mitigation opportunities in drawings and supporting documents.
• Identify mitigations including work instructions, isolations, station onelines, and bypass options.
• Serve as primary contact for risk assessments across relay protection, operations, planning, and substation practices.
• Lead and develop procedures, metrics, and training for risk processes across Transmission assets.
• Lead evolution meetings with stakeholders on task and project risk profiles.
• Provide input to design/construction/planning/project managers to reduce reliability risk and adjust project scope if needed.
• Identify when long outages increase risk to critical customers and suggest alternative strategies.
• Participate in project team meetings to discuss risk profiles in early development stages.

Skills

Engineering principles

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Math skills

PC skills

Hazard recognition

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

PE/FE licensure preferred

Job description

Entergy Louisiana, LLC is seeking an Engineer I-Sr. Risk Controls Relay Protection & Control Engineer to perform technical reviews of protection and control documents for transmission projects and outages, ensuring risk is identified, mitigated, and managed across nuclear, industrial, and critical customer assets.

The role emphasizes protecting critical customers by evaluating protection schemes, relay prints and outage durations, while guiding design and construction teams on risk reduction