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Job Title: Mgr, Power Plant

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone. 

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way. We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.  

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro, solar and petroleum coke plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities. 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
Manages and oversees the operations of a natural gas-fired power plant.  Responsible for operations reliability, safety, compliance, and financial performance. Ensures plant is prepared to meet system load requirements and proactively monitors operations for efficiency and safety ensuring that all applicable regulatory requirements are followed.  Leads and directs the work of others.  Oversees technical staff, such as maintenance, engineering, work management/planning, and administrative support. Hires, trains/develops personnel.  Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Has management responsibility to ensure a safe production environment that operates within all applicable regulatory compliance requirements, including environmental operating permits, NERC reliability standards, Sarbannes-Oxley processes, RTO requirements, and company policies. Frequently monitors operations for safety and efficiency; periodically conducts field inspections of plants, stations, or substations to ensure normal and safe operating conditions. Identifies abnormalities with power production equipment or processes. 

• Has ownership for all the operations and performance of the power plant. Sets organizational priorities and allocates resources to meet plant and business objectives. Adapts plans and adjusts priorities as needed to meet the service and/or operational challenges of the plant. Identifies and resolves complex technical, operational and organizational problems. Monitors the operating status of plants by establishing and reporting of  plant and business key performance indicators, and taking or assigning action to close performance gaps.

• Leads and directs the work of plant staff and coordinates with the business unit support group personnel as needed.  Oversees staff to provide operations support functions, such as engineering and technical support, maintenance, work planning and execution, regulatory compliance, and administrative support. Manages  operations and maintenance employees in the production of power and ensures they are properly trained. Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal and external interfaces and key strategic alliance partners.

• Ensures that a strong performance-driven culture is established and maintained at the plant with frequent engagement with employees at all levels.  Guides employees and instills accountability to adhere to and actively support operations code of conduct, procedure usage, and other standards necessary to reduce errors and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Responsible for ensuring plant is prepared and capable to meet system load requirements; ensures adequate production levels.  Works with system planning organization to maximize plant production.

• Prepares and manages plant budgets. Implements processes to ensure maximum asset utilization. Continuously monitors performance results against financial and operational goals. Ensures plant resources achieve annual goals and objectives for Power Generation business segment. Evaluates and champions gap closure actions that are consistent with the company's overall business strategy.

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor's degree , preferably in a technical field or equivalent work experience

Minimum experience required of the position

• Minimum of 8+ years relevant experience, with prior supervisory/ management experience (preferably in a plant environment)

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• In-depth experience in operating a power plant 
• Knowledge and technical expertise in power plant operations and maintenance with an understanding of the key drivers for safe, reliable, cost effective and compliant operation
• Experienced project manager with excellent leadership skills

Preference for the following:

• Regulatory knowledge (e.g. OSHA, NERC, FERC, Environmental, other…) associated with operation of a power plant
• Financial management skills with the ability to develop and manage a budget
• Business Acumen/Industry knowledge (regulated/non-regulated environment), including broad business knowledge with understanding of how utilities make money in a regulated market
• Experience operating in an ISO, RTO or similar type market structure
• Ability to manage multiple priorities--effective prioritization of competing issues, recognizing relevant constraints and opportunities
• Effective communication to interact with personnel at all levels of organization
• People management skills, including the ability to effectively coach others and hold employees accountable
• Openness and willingness to explore alternative approaches—willingness to drive change when needed. Ability to lead organization through change management initiatives
• Experience with natural gas-fired units

Any certificates, licenses, etc., required for the position

• None

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.