Construction Engineer

Entergy • New Orleans, LA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This position performs a wide variety of planning, project management, construction, and operations activities, including emergency restoration duties. Project areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis. The role involves coordinating various Distribution, Substation, and Transmission Line Construction projects, preparing construction contracts, schedules, cost tracking, progress reporting, and project team coordination. It requires providing engineering field technical support, technical reviews of design packages, and participating in planning and scoping sessions. The engineer will manage the entire capital work process, including scheduling, outage coordination, estimating, resource identification, contract development, safety enforcement, quality assurance, invoice processing, as-built completion, and project closeout. The engineer must foster a safe, quality, and productive work environment and interface with multiple organizations to identify and mitigate safety hazards, ensure environmental stewardship, develop project scopes and estimates, create construction sequence plans and schedules, perform constructability reviews, track materials, request proposals, coordinate schedules, resolve deficiencies, and report costs. The time allotment is comprised of support of the capital work management process (40%), compilation of the project and construction execution plan (40%), and field inspection for scoping and adjustments (20%).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from four-year accredited institution.
• Degrees in engineering technology (typically, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution with PE may be considered.
• Engineer III: at least 4 years of experience in an engineering discipline
• Engineer Sr: at least 6 years of experience in an engineering discipline
• Technical mastery of engineering principles.
• In-depth knowledge of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area.
• Consistently drives for value in sound engineering decisions.
• Good leadership skills.
• Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent math skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Good knowledge of Personal Computer operations and related software
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Required to work safely and follow all Entergy safety policies and procedures.
• Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace and have the ability to mitigate the hazards.
• Demonstrate acceptance of a diverse and inclusive work environment and customer base.
• Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and have the ability to enact change.
• Engineer I - III: none
• Engineer SR: EIT or Graduate Level Engineering Degree or MBA.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• power system, relay, or substation experience.
• EIT or PE

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the coordination of various Distribution, Substation, and Transmission Line Construction projects in different areas of Entergy.
• Responsible for preparing construction contracts, construction schedules, cost tracking, progress reporting and project team coordination within a strong matrix organization to facilitate safe construction of facilities from 13.8kV to 500kV for both internal and external customers.
• Job will require providing engineering field technical support to substation and distribution and transmission line construction crews.
• Job will require technical reviews of Substation (Electrical and Relay Controls) and D-Line and T-Line design - packages issued for construction.
• Responsible for participating in the planning, scoping, and brainstorming sessions with all applicable departments, and a diverse customer base (internal and external).
• The Engineer will continue to participate throughout the entire capital work process by establishing the sequenced schedule duration's outage, coordination, preparing construction estimates, identifying resources (internal or contract), development and preparation of contractual agreements for necessary resources, commitment to fostering, encouraging, and policing all safety measure, performing quality assurance and control, verifying and processing of invoices, completion of as-builts, and project closeout.
• Engineer must be dedicated and committed to providing a safe, quality, and productive work environment conducive to meeting all obligations required by policies, procedures, specifications, and applicable laws of the local, state, and national agencies.
• The engineer shall typically interface with multiple organizations.
• These communications articulate into the Construction Management Engineer performing a wide variety of duties such as, identification of safety hazards, the elimination/mitigation of hazards on projects, environmental stewardship, development of project scopes, development of project estimates, development of construction sequence plans, development of project schedules, performing constructability review, tracking/receiving materials and equipment, requesting contract proposals, identifying and initiating environmental compliance tactics, coordination of schedules, outage identification/coordination, deficiency resolution, quality assurance, reporting cost, issue resolution, and closure of projects.
• The engineer's time allotment is comprised of three major categories: support of the capital work management process @ 40%
• Compilation of the project and construction execution plan and associated activities @ 40%
• field inspection for scoping and determining check and adjustments for a successful project completion @ 20%

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level