Asset Management Support Specialist

Job Title: Asset Management Support Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

 

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone.

 

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way. We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.

 

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro, and solar plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities. 

 

The Smart Operations Commercial Asset Management team manages a portfolio of multiple assets that are owned by Entergy but not operated by Entergy.  Assets within this portfolio are as diversified in construction type as they are in function type and their status ranges from fully operational to active demolition sites. 

 

 

Job Summary

Role is responsible for supporting the efficient and reliable operation of assets within Power Generation’s (PGen) Smart Operations (SMOC) commercial asset management portfolio.  This includes supporting the management of commercial contracts and operating agreements specific to each asset’s unique role, managing portfolio financials and budgets through PGen processes and workflows,  overseeing projects and work scopes throughout development and implementation processes, ensuring all work is completed in accordance with Entergy procedures and compliance guidelines (SOX, EH&S, NERC, etc.), and providing applicable subject matter expertise in support of reliable and efficient asset management.   

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Budget management support for site to achieve Net-zero impact in current year while achieving Power Generation targets in current year and 5-year plan
• Ranks and prioritizes safety, compliance, reliability, and financial risks using data analysis and historical and predictive maintenance information from both internal and external industry sources to support budget/project development, cost control for short range work plans, long range strategic planning, and execution of projects.
• Project controls support and management of various commercial assets and processes within the commercial asset management fleet.  
• Schedules contractors to perform work and manages all associated project budgets. Closing out contracts and resolving invoice issues as needed. Participating in the Accrual process as required. Participating in the budget development process.
• Support equipment problem solving, condition assessments, root cause analysis’s and prepare reports for management use.
• Provide primary or backup technical support for various systems and processes. Utilizing outside resources, knowledge, and monitoring systems to identify