Project Manager, Senior Staff

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

 

**This position is preferred to be based in New Orleans, LA; however, other Entergy locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas may be considered.**  

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

• Large Project Services develops projects and serves as primary project interface for all large block load/revenue additions to Entergy’s System, including new facility construction and expansion of existing facilities. 
• Promotes safe behaviors and adherence to Entergy Safety Rules and OSHA guidelines.
• Accountable for system wide Operating Company support to Economic Development and Industrial Accounts teams by developing timely and cost effective engineering solutions required to create attractive customer business solutions and aggressively grow Entergy’s business.
• Leads collaboration across multiple business units as needed to ensure customer solution sets are optimized to satisfy cost, scope, and schedule constraints. Coordination includes, but is not limited to, Entergy Economic Development, Industrial Accounts, Transmission and Distribution Planning, Transmission & Distribution Engineering, Transmission & Distribution Operations, Transmission & Distribution Finance and Entergy Legal.
• Accountable for completion of the following Stage Gate 0 & 1 deliverables: Requests for Information (RFI), and Class 5 estimates originating from internal stakeholders regarding distribution and transmission system capacity to serve, interconnection upgrades needed, and system upgrades needed to serve block load additions.  Deliverables typically include, but not limited to, overall scope of work description, drawings, cost estimate, and estimated duration to execute.
• Supports Entergy’s Economic Development and Industrial Accounts teams in the initiation of Class 3 Facilities Studies with the appropriate Power Delivery Project Management, including being responsible for the setup and management of appropriate internal accounting strings.
• Works with Entergy accounting, legal and Project Delivery to ensure reimbursable projects are appropriately contracted, financed, and recovered, targeting 0 stranded costs.
• Ensures compliance with approved policies and procedures. 
• Candidate must be self-directive and proven self-starter.  

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes safe behavior and adherence to the safety rules on the project.
• Receive and review project development request from internal Entergy stakeholders and verify block load addition details.  Initiate and receive appropriate level planning study from Entergy Transmission, Distribution, and/or Resource Planning. Collaborate with Planning teams to identify optimal solutions.  Develop appropriate level of deliverable document to convey the necessary Entergy project scope, cost estimate and execution duration to support the block load addition interconnection to Entergy’s transmission and/or distribution system.  
• Provide peer check support to rest of Large Project Services Team.   
• Develops project cash flows that aligns with project schedule and cost estimates with check provided during other internal stakeholder’s engagements.
• Maintains clear, timely and accurate project status reports and identifies, communicates, and takes prompt actions for project issues that may impact project performance.
• Ensures proper documentation and archiving for all work, ensuring appropriate Record Retention documentation is maintained. 
• Ensures high quality handover with Project Delivery Project Management for developed projects.
• Works with Miscellaneous Accounts Receivable, Project Controls, and Portfolio Management to ensure projects are properly accounted for, including both Entergy and Customer funded projects.
• Works with Entergy legal representation to ensure sound contracting with Customers.
• Works with internal stakeholders to ensure project details are properly maintained in Entergy CRM tool and provides additional support during internal meetings to review CRM entries.
• Regularly participates in cross-functional training and process improvement initiatives and serves as a mentor within the Project Development organization. 

 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS