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 potential improvements through trending and analyzation of performance data.

- Support technical lead on specific projects and compliance within guidelines of related areas (NERC, CIP, EH&S, etc.)

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education:

- High school diploma or GED or equivalent experience. - Desired:

- Associate Degree in Engineering Technology or B.S. Degree in Science in a technical field.

Minimum Experience

- Technical Support Specialist II: 2+ years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred. - Technical Support Specialist III: 4+ years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred. - Technical Support Specialist, Sr.: 6+ years of power plant or relevant technical experience is preferred.

Knowledge And Skills

- Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic work environment. in all applications of the Microsoft Toolkit.

- Must possess good computer skills.

- Ability to work independent of direct supervision.

- Good communication skills also required.

- Duties often require call outs and work after normal hours.

- Be able to keep records and reports.

- Desired

- Project or financials management experience

- Project outage database, FVET, PowerGen budget management processes

- Maximo contract and invoice management

- Peoplesoft accounts payable

- Work management practices and tracking (AIMM, SAP, etc)

- Ability to collect and manage large amounts of data and effectively organize and summarize data sets for clear understanding and financial reporting.

Primary Location:

Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands || Louisiana : Lake Charles

Job Function

: Professional

FLSA Status

: Professional

Relocation Option:

No Relocation Offered

Union description/code

: NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings

: 1

Req ID:

119965

Travel Percentage

:25% to 50%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement:

The Entergy System of Companies provides 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. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility:

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click

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Additional Responsibilities:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

Working Conditions

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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.