Engineering Intern Jobs in Conway, AR (NOW HIRING)

PS Job Title: Student, Intern

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Arkansas, LLC 

Job Summary/Purpose:

Role is responsible for providing support to Distribution Operations and team projects. Distribution Engineering is tasked with developing, delivering, maintaining and validating the Business Unit adherence to policies and procedures. Distribution Engineering is expected to provide a customer centric atmosphere, with an emphasis on safety culture, CI and teamwork environment. Role will require building and maintaining partnerships with operations and other support functions to properly facilitate the development and continuous improvement of the Safety and Reliability of Entergy Arkansas

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

Working in a team environment to assist engineers in day-to-day activities including but not limited to:

• Provides support to Distribution Engineering day-to-day tasks
• Travel to work sites within Entergy service territories
• Support the Development, Delivery and Deployment of assigned Management System components to all applicable business units
• Develop and monitor observation tools, indicators and actions related to Management System compliance
• Assist or complete design of jobs that require the use of Asset Management Databases and GDT
• Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
• Utilizing design software to model surveyed field configurations
• Preparing operational one-line drawings
• Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered
• Managing projects that are to be delivered to construction
• Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
• Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
• Responding to equipment failures
• Asset Management database management
• 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, design & project management.
• Travel may be required for the position

Minimum Education required of the position:

• Must be actively enrolled and pursuing a bachelors or masters in an engineering field of study
  
  • Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering candidates preferred
  • Junior/Senior candidates preferred (classification at the time/semester of hire; identified in the job posting title)
• Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:

• General electrical or mechanical engineering knowledge
• Self-starter with strong analytical and communication skills
• Must be proficient in MS office tools - Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong and positive team attitude and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize work and to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to understand scope and objective of each assignment

Primary Location: Arkansas-Conway Arkansas : Conway || Arkansas : Harrison || Arkansas : Russellville 
Job Function: Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status:  
Relocation Option: Level III
Union description/code:  
Number of Openings: 2
Req ID: 124274
PS Job Title: Student, Intern 
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO 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.

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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 HRCompliance@entergy.com 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.