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- Posted Oct 21
- Last verified Oct 22
About the job
JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
Entergy’s Transmission Department is eager to hire a college student who will be actively engaged in an *Electrical, Mechanical and/or Civil Engineering* curriculum, and on track to obtain a bachelor's or master's degree. Seeking students who will be classified as sophomore, junior, senior, or enrolled in graduate studies at the time of hire. The minimum cumulative GPA requirement for this role is 2.8 on a 4.0 scale, which is verified through an official transcript from the previous semester.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Assisting engineers in day-to-day activities including, but not limited to:
- Performing project scoping and site visits
- Review of Transmission Line encroachments
- Preparing operational one-line drawings
- Management of the network model and deployment of facility rating changes
- Creation of a more detailed model used to improve the State Estimator
- Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered and staged for upcoming projects
- Managing projects that are in construction
- Completion of as-built documentation
- Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
- Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
- Responding to equipment failures
- NERC Clearance Remediation
- Transmission Line database management
- Support of Business Analyst processes within Project Controls 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, maintenance, design, project management and construction, and operations
- Travel is required for the position
- Uses engineering principles to solve problems, develop cost-effective, technically sound solutions
- Applies knowledge of engineering principles in evaluating the transmission grid
- Works with other disciplines within the Transmission organization and other business units
- Utilize various power system software packages (Steady State, Stability and/or Electric Market Analysis) to evaluate the performance of the transmission grid
- Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Seeking candidates who are actively enrolled in pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree in Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Civil Engineering to work full-time during the designated co-op semesters. (*Other engineering majors may be considered.)*
- At minimum, candidates must be classified as a sophomore or beyond at the time of hire.
- Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester.
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.
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.