Manager, Site Procurement (Nuclear)

Posting End Date: 01/02/2024 

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

 

 

Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including 8,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.9 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Tracing its history to 1913 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, Entergy has annual revenues of $11 billion and more than 13,000 employees.

 

The company’s utility business provides electric retail and wholesale power to customers in four states through five utility operating companies: Entergy Arkansas, LLC; Entergy Louisiana, LLC; Entergy Mississippi, LLC; Entergy New Orleans, LLC; and Entergy Texas, Inc. Entergy also delivers natural gas services to 200,000 customers in New Orleans and parts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Entergy is winding down its wholesale generation business, which provides power to wholesale customers primarily from our two remaining nuclear facilities located in the northern United States.

 

The electric utility industry is rapidly changing, and Entergy is entering an exciting period of growth as we prepare for the future. We are building the premier utility, a utility that delivers sustainable value to all its stakeholders – our customers, employees, communities and owners – as measured by strong net promoter scores, high levels of service, superior and affordable products and services, highly skilled and engaged employees, and industry-leading financial performance. We are focusing our sights on three key priorities — customer centricity, continuous improvement, and creating a culture of belonging for our employees. Join us as we take the next step on our journey to building the premier utility.

 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

This position is responsible for managing the site supply chain operations organization at one of Entergy’s regulated nuclear plants.  The site supply chain operations organization is responsible for procurement and management of nuclear safety related and non-safety related material and services, including QC Receipt Inspection.  This position serves as a site lead team member and the group interfaces with all plant departments including Maintenance, Production, Engineering, Operations, Chemistry, and Project Management, supporting work management, outage and on-line planning preparation and execution of work. 

 

The manager position is key in providing governance and oversight of all aspects of the materials and services procurement processes along with warehouse, inventory and logistics processes, supporting the station organization to improve plant performance and equipment reliability ensuring compliance with applicable quality and regulatory requirements.  This position manages multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities and ensures the organization has a culture of being proactively engaged, anticipating material needs, solutions and improvement opportunities.  Manager ensures the use of corrective action program to document adverse conditions and performance deficiencies, perform dispositions, develop and implement corrective action plans, and verify effectiveness of actions taken. 

 

The Manager, Site Procurement reports to Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations (Nuc).

The position at times may require travel to other Nuclear sites or Nuclear Corporate.

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Safety/Human Performance: Ensure the Team always puts safety first. Actively promote strong safety behaviors, utilizing key tools such as Close Call /Good Catch in addition to proactive field visits to review standards and behaviors. Monitoring and influencing Suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.
• Materials and Services Procurement: Accountable for excellence in executing procurement of materials services.  Drives toward full optimization and utilization of the tiered procurement model, and leveraging of Entergy’s full spending power through effective engagement with category management, central procurement, and central contracts groups. 
• Warehouse, Inventory and Logistics: Accountable for excellence in executing warehousing, inventory, and logistics strategies.  Accountable for developing and ensuring execution of warehouse standards, both for facility requirements and material control / material handling operations.  Ensures that facility issues that represent safety or quality concerns are addressed quickly and effectively.
• Assured Supply: Ensure sufficient and proper materials and stocking levels are available to support the needs of the plant. Ensure all materials available f