Entergy - New Orleans, LA
posted 13 days ago
Responsible for performing a wide variety of planning, analysis, and project oriented engineering activities related to ensuring available capacity and risk mitigation within the electrical distribution system in accordance with the Entergy grid modernization strategy. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Prepare and maintain the distribution five year plan and the Joint Transmission and Distribution component of the Transmission plan. Support Transmission Planning and Project Development on high-voltage project optimization. Serve as the Distribution Planning liaison to transmission project management, project design (Transmission and Distribution), and Asset Management Program Design. Provide technical support to distribution design engineers, operations, and managed accounts. Perform circuit coordination studies as required in concert with the distribution automation team. Maintain the SynerGi distribution system analysis model and run load flow analysis to proactively identify potential system issues and generate project proposals to address these modeled issues. Meet with large customers (internal and external) to determine electric needs, requirements, and ability to serve. Develop and maintain the Emergency/Contingency Switching Plans for the assigned area of responsibility. Work directly with customers proposing larger Distributed Generation additions to the system as the Distribution technical adviser. Participate in routine, non-routine, and emergency storm and outage event restoration duties. Role may also include cross-functional optimization with grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.