Student Intern, Electrical Engineering, Spring 2027

Entergy; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Entergy is seeking a Student Intern in Project Delivery Engineering to support design, relay settings, and grid reliability efforts. You will use CAD to develop drawings, perform one-line relay schematics, and assist with project scoping, estimating, and documentation across transmission projects.

The role involves data mining, reporting, and coordination with design, construction, and field teams to ensure milestones are met and standards are followed.

Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate program in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum cumulative GPA 2.8 (on 4.0 scale) verified by official transcript.

Responsibilities

• Perform design based on project scoping and site visits.
• Create construction drawings using CAD software.
• Prepare relay one-line drawings.
• Validate estimating prices and equipment units; ensure material is ordered and staged.
• Manage projects that are in construction.
• Complete as-built documentation.
• Participate in planning coordination calls.
• Assist in improving grid reliability and respond to equipment failures.
• Support lab testing, analytics, and data reporting.

Skills

CAD software

Relay protection

Power system modeling

Data mining & reporting

Project coordination

Education

Pursuing Electrical Engineering degree (BS/MS/PhD)

Tools

APA / PSS CAPE

ETAP

EMTP

Hypersim

Primavera

Job description

FLSA Status

PS Job Title: Student, Intern

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

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.

Entergy’s Project Delivery Engineering Department is responsible for the planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating over 16,000 miles of transmission lines and over 2,700 substations across the four-state territory.

Intern Job Description

• Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
• Utilizing CAD software to create construction drawings for projects
• Preparing relay operational one-line drawings
• Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered and staged for upcoming projects
• Managing projects that are in construction
• Completion of as-built documentation
• Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
• Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
• Responding to equipment failures
• Support lab testing and operations
• Support of business analytic processes through data mining and reporting, as well as performing a wide variety of detailed engineering analysis in transmission-related areas such as planning, economic analysis, maintenance, design, project management and construction, and operations
• Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects. Review existing relay settings. Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets.
• Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera.
• Model power systems using APA (previously known as PSS CAPE). Maintain master model for relay fault analysis. Support wide area coordination. Occasionally use additional tools such as ETAP, EMTP and Hypersim.
• Develop relay settings for substation protective relays. This includes performing fault studies and developing relay settings for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects.
• Works with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
• Support activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required with focus around PRC and CIP standards.
• Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
• Support development of configurations for non RTU assets such as DFR and PQ meters.
• Participate in substation visits.
• Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
• Support protection standard development and implementation as required.
• Investigate impact of relay firmware and software changes to Entergy system applications. Develop and update templates as appropriate.
• Develop departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
• Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared towards fault studies and relay settings. Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.
• Participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects.
• Travel may be required for the position

Education Requirements

• Candidates must be actively enrolled in pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester.

Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans

Job Function

Students / Early Careers

Relocation Option

Level III

Union description/code

NBU

Number of Openings

1

Req ID

124815

Travel Percentage

Up to 25%

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

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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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Working Conditions

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.

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.