(Summer 2025) Capital Projects- Engineering Student, Intern

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

“Please note: 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.”

 

Entergy’s Project Delivery Department is responsible for planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating over 15,000 miles of transmission lines across the four-state service territory.

 

JOB DUTIES/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 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. This includes performing fault studies and developing relay settings for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects.
• Works with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
• Perform activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required. 
• Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
• Support development of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) configurations.
• 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.

 

• 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.

• Update group databases such as power line carrier frequency database and transmission line rating database.
• Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings.
• Participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects.
• Improve departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
• Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.

Educational Requirements:

• Must be actively pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree as indicated below: 
  • Seeking an Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Civil engineering major.
  • Junior and Senior candidate with graduation dates of December 2025 and beyond preferred. (Must be classified as a sophomore at minimum.)
• Cumulative GPA of a 3.0 or higher is required (on a 4.0 scale).

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans 
Job Function: Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status:  
Relocation Option: Level III
Union description/code:  
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 115514
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

 

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EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opp