Business Operations Project Manager Jobs in Covington, LA

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
Job Summary/Purpose
The Senior Manager, Project Management provides strategic leadership for the successful execution of large, complex transmission, substation, and capital infrastructure distribution projects and programs, typically valued at $175 million or below per project (5-year $500M portfolio) within the ELL-SE and ENOI territories. This role is accountable for delivering projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with Entergy's quality, governance, and operational excellence standards while supporting the company's long-term business objectives. The five year portfolio averages $500M+ in responsibility.
The Senior Manager leads multidisciplinary teams across Engineering, Project Controls, Supply Chain, Construction, Environmental, Real Estate, Operations, and external contractors to deliver predictable project outcomes through proactive planning, disciplined execution, sound financial management, and effective risk mitigation. This position establishes clear expectations, drives accountability, removes execution barriers, and fosters a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and safety excellence.
As a leader within Capital Projects, the Senior Manager is responsible for ensuring strong project governance throughout the Stage Gate Process, maintaining executive-level visibility into project performance, and providing clear, concise communications regarding cost, schedule, risks, opportunities, resource requirements, and strategic decisions. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by translating complex project information into actionable business recommendations that enable informed decision-making.
This position also plays a critical leadership role in developing organizational capability by coaching and mentoring project managers, strengthening project management standards, promoting financial discipline, and building high-performing teams capable of delivering Entergy's growing capital investment portfolio with consistency, predictability, and operational excellence.
Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Champions a culture where safety is the highest priority by establishing clear expectations, reinforcing safe behaviors, conducting meaningful field engagement, and ensuring safety is integrated into every phase of project planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
• Provides strategic leadership for one or more large, complex transmission, substation, or capital infrastructure projects and programs, typically valued at $100 million or greater, ensuring successful delivery of safety, quality, schedule, financial, and operational objectives.
• Builds, develops, and leads high-performing, multidisciplinary project teams by establishing clear roles, expectations, accountability, and performance standards while coaching and mentoring Project Managers, Project Controls personnel, and other team members.
• Leads project execution through Entergy's Stage Gate Process by ensuring all required deliverables, governance requirements, approvals, estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and business cases are complete, accurate, and decision-ready.
• Demonstrates full financial ownership of assigned projects by managing budgets, working forecasts, estimates at completion (EAC), contingency, cash flow, change management, productivity, and financial performance while identifying opportunities to improve forecast accuracy and overall project value.
• Proactively identifies, evaluates, mitigates, and communicates project risks and opportunities before they impact safety, schedule, cost, quality, or operational readiness. Escalates significant issues with recommended mitigation strategies and business solutions.
• Leads cross-functional coordination between Engineering, Construction, Supply Chain, Environmental, Real Estate, Regulatory, Operations, Project Controls, and external contractors to align priorities, remove execution barriers, and deliver predictable project outcomes.
• Serves as the primary Owner's Representative or Contract Manager, providing commercial leadership throughout project execution, including contract administration, contractor performance management, change order negotiations, claims avoidance, dispute resolution, invoice approval, and contractual compliance.
• Establishes and maintains disciplined project controls by partnering with Project Controls to ensure effective cost management, schedule management, earned value reporting, risk management, document control, forecasting, and change control processes are consistently executed.
• Provides executive-level project communications by preparing and delivering concise, accurate, and actionable presentations and status updates that clearly communicate project performance, financial health, critical path activities, emerging risks, key decisions, and recommended actions.
• Maintains a strong field presence by routinely visiting project sites to reinforce safety expectations, verify quality of work, engage with project teams and contractors, remove obstacles to execution, and strengthen relationships with stakeholders.
• Builds collaborative relationships with internal customers, operating companies, contractors, consultants, regulators, and community stakeholders to ensure alignment, transparency, and successful project execution.
• Makes timely, sound business decisions while balancing safety, operational impacts, schedule, cost, quality, customer commitments, and long-term strategic objectives.
• Identifies opportunities to improve project execution through standardization, lessons learned, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance organizational performance, consistency, and project delivery.
• Develops future organizational capability by mentoring employees, strengthening project management processes, promoting leadership development, supporting succession planning, and fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Performs storm restoration, emergency response, and other business continuity responsibilities as required in support of Entergy's commitment to providing safe and reliable electric service.

Minimum Requirements
Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Minimum experience required of the position

• 10 years of relevant experience minimum.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position
None
Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position
None
Other Attributes
Functional Knowledge: Requires comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within own discipline and knowledge of others.
Business Expertise: Applies in-depth understanding of how own discipline integrates within the function.
Problem Solving: Manages multiple related teams, sets organizational priorities and allocates resources.
Impact: Impacts the business results of a sub-function by supporting and funding of projects, products, services and/or technologies and developing policies and plans. Guided by functional business plans.
Interpersonal Skills: "Influences others internally and externally, including senior leaders."
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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Louisiana : Baton Rouge
Job Function: Engineering
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level I
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 123942
Travel Percentage:25% to 50%
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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.