Operations Coordinator

Entergy•Baton Rouge, LA

42d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for execution of transmission maintenance projects providing technical support, oversight, scheduling, monitoring, coordination, and management updates. The successful candidate should possess strong skills in safety leadership, organization, and multi-tasking. This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing. 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.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent or related work experience
Minimum 5 years of transmission/distribution line, substation, or project experience
Technical Knowledge of procedures, maintenance, and operations of transmission & distribution lines
Knowledge of transmission line, substation, or relay equipment, material, and construction practices
Understand and be able to communicate with others in transmission, substation, or protection disciplines
Strong knowledge of computers and related technology
Strong communication and organizational skills
Ability to take and understand directives and complete tasks
Excellent leadership skills
Strong decision making skills
Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
Ability to work well under pressure
Self-motivated and dependable team player
Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace and have the ability to mitigate the hazards
Ability to maintain and care for Company equipment properly and safeguard assets
Ability to meet the public in a pleasant and tactful manner and communicate clearly with them
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

Associate Degree of higher preferred

Responsibilities

Oversee & monitor the safety and performance of contractors and company personnel ensuring crews work safely, efficiently and effectively.
Ensure facilities and assets are installed and commissioned per the established design and in accordance with company standards and federal regulations.
Work closely with other maintenance OCs, engineers, asset management, operations, and local construction/maintenance groups to ensure scheduled work/outages are optimized.
Work with management, planner schedulers, and maintenance/design engineers to scope planned/failure projects, prepare pre-job scope, develop work packages, determine material requirements, develop cost estimates, develop T&E estimates, and schedule projects.
Document as-built drawings during construction and adhere to configuration management procedures.
Follow up on the closure of projects ensuring LWMS are properly updated.
Facilitate transmission line outage on-call duties. This includes taking on-call rotations, scoping/patrolling line operations, developing project estimates, bill of materials & project packages, and coordinating crews to perform work for failures.
Coordinate material orders and deliveries, equipment staging and set-up, jobsite readiness, and switching.
Assist with preparing site specific hazard identification plans.
Complete post job audit and ensure jobsite cleanup is complete to include appropriate accounting of excess materials to be either returned to stores or properly moved to another project using appropriate processes and approved procedures.