Student, Intern Engineering Summer 2027

Entergy • The Woodlands, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Entergy’s Project Delivery Engineering Department is responsible for planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating over 16,000 miles of transmission lines and over 2,700 substations across the four-state territory. This internship offers the opportunity to work in a team environment, assisting engineers with day-to-day activities. The role involves supporting project scoping, reviewing relay settings, coordinating with design and construction teams, and utilizing project management tools. Interns will also gain experience in power system modeling, relay setting development, and compliance with industry standards.

Requirements

• Actively pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 2.8 GPA.
• Must be at minimum classified as a sophomore or beyond.

Nice To Haves

• Candidate with graduation dates of Dec 2027 and beyond preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects.
• Review existing relay settings.
• Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets.
• Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera.
• Model power systems using APA (previously known as PSS CAPE).
• Maintain master model for relay fault analysis.
• Support wide area coordination.
• Occasionally use additional tools such as ETAP, EMTP and Hypersim.
• Develop relay settings for substation protective relays, including performing fault studies and developing relay settings for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects.
• Work with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
• Oversee, review, and approve settings developed by professional consultant engineers.
• Award projects to contractors and reviewing invoices.
• Support activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required with focus around PRC and CIP standards.
• Establish and improve relay testing laboratory.
• Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
• Support development of configurations for non RTU assets such as DFR and PQ meters.
• Participate in substation visits.
• Provide technical support and protection system expertise in response to operational/commissioning requests from field personnel.
• Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
• Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary.
• Support protection standard development and implementation as required.
• Investigate impact of relay firmware and software changes to Entergy system applications.
• Develop and update templates as appropriate.
• Supports activities to comply with applicable industry standards (i.e. NERC, SERC) and other utility regulations, as required.
• Travel may be required for the position.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
• Compliance with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
• Reasonable accommodations for online applicants.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern