Project Mgr, Sr Staff

Entergy•New Orleans, LA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role supports Entergy New Orleans leadership by driving execution of enterprise-aligned priorities, regulatory readiness, and operational performance. It promotes accurate financial and regulatory reporting, maintains an effective operating rhythm, and advances system reliability by partnering across Centers of Excellence—including Operations, Engineering, Work Management, Construction, Strategic Planning, and Asset Management—to turn plans into executable field actions. The position supports the Reliability Vice President for New Orleans with resource deployment and productivity KPIs, monitors capital and O&M budgets, and provides day-to-day guidance to teams working in a matrixed environment. It also strengthens organizational capability through coaching and development and supports storm response, reporting, and after-action reviews. The role reinforces safety culture, operational risk controls, accountability, and execution excellence. The position coordinates cross-functional reliability initiatives, ensuring project plans are executable, crews and schedules are aligned, resources are coordinated, and the quality and progress of capital and O&M work are monitored. It applies structured project management practices to define scope, schedules, resources, KPIs, and risk mitigation, while maintaining documentation, financial discipline, status updates, and stakeholder reviews. The position also supports restoration coordination and resource allocation during storms, participates in after-action reviews, reinforces safety requirements and operational controls, and ensures regulatory reporting and storm-response tools are used. The role is based onsite in New Orleans, Louisiana, with travel up to 25%. Employees may be expected to work additional hours, work at alternate locations, or perform additional duties during storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations deemed necessary by the company. Authorization to work in the United States is required; the company will not sponsor work visas for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
At least 5 years of project management experience in utility operations, engineering, construction, power delivery environments, or equivalent experience.
Ability to influence various levels of leadership.
Intricate knowledge of project management processes and stage-gate understanding.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Understanding of the financial impacts of project plans and the importance of timely execution.
Credibility with external vendor networks and partnership capabilities.
Ability to track project execution and provide meaningful KPIs to leadership.
Understanding of asset procurement and the ability to navigate supply chain organizations and processes to improve procurement efforts and meet project delivery needs.
Excellent coaching capabilities at various levels of the organization.
Authorization to work in the United States; work visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

Coordinate cross-functional project activities across Operations, Planning, Reliability Performance, Work Management, Engineering, and Construction to support system reliability.
Ensure project plans are executable; align crews and schedules, coordinate resource needs, and monitor the quality and progress of capital and O&M reliability initiatives, including execution of the reliability plan.
Provide day-to-day project guidance to peers and matrixed partners across Construction, Work Management, and Engineering; clarify priorities and support needs and maintain transparent, consistent communication with Centers of Excellence.
Foster alignment and accountability among project participants.
Influence peers and leaders to execute the Reliability plan consistently using structured project management methodologies.
Define project scope, schedules, resource plans, KPIs, and risk mitigation strategies.
Maintain project documentation, prepare status updates, facilitate stakeholder reviews, and support financial discipline.
Ensure key meetings have agendas and that actions are recorded.
Coach and mentor team members and project contributors; conduct routine check-ins, reinforce safety and productivity expectations, and provide constructive performance feedback.
Support regional storm response through project-related restoration coordination, resource allocation, and operational decision-making.
Participate in after-action reviews and help implement continuous improvements.
Reinforce adherence to safety standards and operational risk controls, including switching, audit and near-miss closure, and serious injury prevention.
Ensure regulatory reporting and notes are captured and that tools are used during storm response.
Support resource deployment and productivity KPIs for the Reliability Vice President over New Orleans and monitor capital and O&M budgets.