(Spring 2025) Co-Op – Distr Asset Planning Detail #2 (Power Delivery)

Location:

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United Kingdom

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Engineering Jobs

Other Industries & Skills:

Manufacturing, Utilities & Services

Advertiser:

Entergy

Job ID:

131179320

Posted On:

01 October 2024

Posting End Date:

  

Work Place Flexibility:

Hybrid 

Legal Entity:

 Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

-Responsible for performing a wide variety of planning, analysis, and project oriented engineering activities related to ensuring available capacity and risk mitigation within the electrical distribution system in accordance with the Entergy grid modernization strategy.
-Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
-Prepare and maintain the distribution five year plan and the Joint Transmission and Distribution component of the Transmission plan.
-Support Transmission Planning and Project Development on high-voltage project optimization.
-Serve as the Distribution Planning liaison to transmission project management, project design (Transmission and Distribution), and Asset Management Program Design.
-Provide technical support to distribution design engineers, operations, and managed accounts.
-Perform circuit coordination studies as required in concert with the distribution automation team.
-Maintain the SynerGi distribution system analysis model and run load flow analysis to proactively identify potential system issues and generate project proposals to address these modeled issues.
-Meet with large customers (internal and external) to determine electric needs, requirements, and ability to serve.
-Develop and maintain the Emergency/Contingency Switching Plans for the assigned area of responsibility.
-Work directly with customers proposing larger Distributed Generation additions to the system as the Distribution technical adviser.
-Participate in routine, non-routine, and emergency storm and outage event restoration duties.
-Role may also include cross-functional optimization with grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.
 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

-Monitor and maintain records of peak substation and circuit loads and perform annual load flow analysis with load forecasts for substation transformers, feeder circuits, and local loads.
-Perform annual overload, voltage, power factor and contingency studies.
-Develop and propose blanket and specific level substation and distribution normal load driven and N-1 contingency projects.
-Provide technical guidance to the Engineering Design Group, Operations and the Distribution Operations Center through the proactive development and maintenance of emergency/contingency switching plans.
-Provide project management for all planned improvements through the use of modeling, load tracking, and alternative analysis.
-Review and recommend for approval electrical system solutions that meet customer needs, comply with company standards and enhance the overall system performance and reliability.
-Participate in meetings with external customers, architects, developers, contractors and government entities to communicate standards and guidelines
-Perform engineering calculations to aid in planning and corrective measure projects.
-Assist with storm restoration efforts, both local and out of town, typically by serving as a Scout or Lead Scout in the initial stages of a storm restoration and provide technical and operational support and/or crew leadership in the later stages of the event.
 

Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities : 
Seeking Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil engineering majors to work full time during the designated semesters.  Other engineering majors can be considered.

•    Must be currently enrolled in school full-time, pursuing a bachelor’s degree as indicated above, enrolled in sophomore year or beyond, and completed some coursework in EE curriculum.

•    Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher is required (on a 4.0 scale)

Primary Location: Louisiana-Baton Rouge Louisiana : Baton Rouge || Louisiana : Hammond || Louisiana : New Orleans 
Job Function: Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status:  
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 114670
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

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. 

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.

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. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

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.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.  41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

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 contact HRComplianceentergy to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

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.

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