JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides leadership and direction to the workgroups within Distribution Operations organization.
Promotes partner for prioritization of initiatives through Regions and Operating Company.
Provides oversight, analysis, and recommendations that impact priorities related to the distribution reliability budget.
Partners with the Asset Management group to administer and execute reliability improvement plans throughout the Operating Company.
Provides status reports and scorecards including contract resource spending forecast along with project construction and timeline status.
Supports the Storm Response program, including preparedness and training initiatives.
Provides support to Operations leadership in overall operations.
Responsible for coordination with other teams regarding the distribution reliability strategy which includes ensuring alignment with Grid Modernization efforts and associated reliability projects and asset performance throughout the jurisdiction, as well as coordinating with groups such as Asset Management, Distribution Automation, Planning, etc.
Works closely with the Engineering and Asset Management groups to develop working forecast based upon revenue, mandated, and approved internal identified projects for optimal contract resource plan.
Orchestrates the prioritization and coordination of reliability activities with an emphasis on project selections providing the greatest benefit (value targeted, risk mitigated).
Provides direction and oversight of all reliability-related system inspections, design, and construction activities.
Provides leadership to Network reliability discussions and associated activities, including but not limited to outage data review to identify root cause and establish appropriate remediation plans, engineering activities, etc.
Strengthen proactive reliability culture and associated employee behaviors that support both short- and long-term reliability efforts
Fosters an environment focusing on continuous improvement in Human Performance and Change Management.
Coordinates with Planning and Performance Assurance (PPA) to develop KPIs necessary to monitor ongoing system performance and adherence to plan execution. Monitors assigned components of the reliability plan and ensures plans are delivering expected value benefit from conception to completion.
Assists with regulatory responses, analysis, and reporting as needed. Ensures availability of all necessary internal/external reporting, including support with providing necessary ongoing plan info and system performance tracking to key external stakeholders.
Develops future technical leaders through mentoring and challenging assignments.
Develops strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to foster open communications (Power Delivery T&D, Engineering, Customer Service, Public Affairs, Communications, Regulatory, Transmission, etc.). Able to represent Entergy at meetings with regulators, customers, and at community outreach events.
Provides financial oversight of plan execution and establishes necessary cost controls to ensure projects remain on budget.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum education & experience required of the position
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field AND 6+ years' experience within utility operation; OR, in lieu of degree, 10+ years' experience within utility operation
Desired
Transmission or Distribution supervisory experience
Experience in the utility industry (e.g. Transmission or Distribution design, operations, construction, or reliability)
Project and/or program management experience
Professional Engineer license
Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position
Demonstrated commitment to safety
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to foster and adapt to change
Ability to monitor and manage departmental budgets
- Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans
- Job Function: Corporate
- FLSA Status: Mgmt
- Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
- Union description/code: Non BARGAINING
- Number of Openings: 1
- Req ID: 125190
- PS Job Title: Manager, Distribution Reliability
- Travel Percentage:25% to 50%
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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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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.
