Power Plant Operations Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX
Position summary/purpose:
Manage and oversee the daily operations of a power plant within area of responsibility
Job duties/responsibilities:

• Foster the importance of a safety-oriented culture.
• Champion strategic vision and direction of the organization.
• Meet system load requirements and monitor operations for efficiency and safety ensuring that all applicable regulatory requirements are followed.
• Oversees, leads and directs plant shift staff, including operations and maintenance
• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to make appropriate decisions
• Be an active participant in safety culture; lead the team by example, and coach, mentor and develop direct reports to exceed their individual and plant goals.
• Act as a change agent for the plant with the daily initiative of improving morale and staff engagement.
• Support plant efforts to ensure stakeholder expectations are met; continue to foster and maintain an inclusive and diverse environment.
• Provides direct management to the current Entergy Safety Process. Ensures compliance with Corporate Safety standards and approved practices for the protection of all personnel. Ensures the safe isolation/lock-out and restoration of site equipment.
• Provides continuous monitoring of boilers, turbine/generators, and auxiliary equipment ensuring the safe and reliable operation of plant equipment.
• Manages and supports Entergy's core processes, and initiatives which include Plant Operations Excellence, Commercial Commitment to Excellence, NERC Standard Compliance, Unit Reliability, Surveillance Testing, Operations Transactions Systems, Utility Group Safety Process, Operations Information Systems, Operator Skills Development Process, Environmental Compliance, and the Automated Tagging System.
• Be the voice of the plant for your department.
• Responsible for hiring a team of high performing Production Technicians and training them to be ready to assume safe and reliable operations during commissioning and at the plant's commercial operation date.
• Responsible for the complete program build out and ownership of all assigned processes/programs associated with a newly designed and constructed Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power plant. Duties will include design, develop, implement, and continually evaluate programs for which they are responsible for by utilizing metrics and review of key results. This position is directly responsible for leading and supporting an operations team that will participate in pre-commercial commissioning activities, engage with engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partners to ensure highest standards are deployed, and assume control/ownership of the site at the commercial operations milestone date.
• Utilize prior lessons learned and site pre-commissioning lessons learned to refine and improve operating procedures, training plans, unit operating and bid parameters, alarm management, surveillance testing, work management strategies, and all Operations/Maintenance fundamentals.
• Responsible for networking with EPC partners and the project team to meet commissioning/testing schedules and resource needs.
• Provides leadership and technical direction for unit troubleshooting and liaise with vendors, OEMs, and internal/external subject matter experts to improve team and site performance.
• Ensures all site commissioning and testing reports and turnover packages are received and stored in accordance with the records management policy.
• Responsible for project and contract management of assigned projects including scope development, project execution, budget estimates, contractor oversight, cost tracking/reporting, and project close out.

Minimum requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Technology-specific or business-related degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Three to five years relevant industrial professional experience in maintenance, operations or project work.

Desired:

• 8-10 years of Plant Operations/Power Boiler Experience, 3-5 years of this period as a control board operator.
• Should have an in-depth knowledge of power plant systems, unit operating practices. These attributes should be at an Operating Technician Proficiency. Be knowledgeable in unit cycle chemistry, its requirements, and corrective actions.

***This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.***
Primary Location: Texas-Port Arthur Texas : Port Arthur
Job Function: Field & Skilled Trade
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 123352
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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EEI Testing:
One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test. The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions. Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID: entergy, password: practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.
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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.