Job Title: Process Owner
Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD)
Process Owner, SMART Operations (Turnover, Warranty, Carbon Capture) 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 in an inclusive 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, 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 to complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric, and solar facilities. Entergy is also on the leading edge of pursuing carbon capture technology on new and existing combined cycle plants to reach carbon neutral goals.
Job Summary This position is responsible for the establishing consistency in turnover between capital projects and power generation, leading warranty management for future new builds and leading the integration of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies within the power generation fleet. This position will work with the capital projects execution teams and power generations operations teams ensuring review standards are consistently applied during turnover from construction to commissioning and from commissioning to operations. This position will also be the central point of contact for warranty management for assigned projects through the end of the warranty period working as the conduit between operations, capital projects and the EPC contractor.
This position will also take the lead on fielding operational integration questions for new build and existing power plant facilities as CCS projects are planned and executed. Future engagements may include developing operational strategies, standards, operating costs, process improvements, and appropriate staffing levels for in-house operations of CCS facilities. This position will broadly integrate across projects being developed in Power Development and executed by Capital Projects (CP). This position will support all Board approved projects as well as those in development for future consideration.
Job Duties - Ensure contractual turnover review standards are understood and implemented consistently on new build projects between the EPC construction and commissioning teams and between the EPC commissioning teams and the Entergy operations teams.
- Partner with the capital projects and operations teams to establish a robust process for consistently monitoring punch list status throughout the construction turnover and commissioning phases of each project to minimize carryover to the warranty list.
- Responsible for management of the warranty process from commercial operations to the conclusion of the warranty period for each assigned project.
- Coordinate the completion of warranty items with capital projects, operations and the EPC contractor.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the terms of the EPC contract related to warranty and ensure terms are executed consistently from one project to the next.
- Function as a lesson learned conduit from one project team to the next to minimize the occurrence and impact of warranty issues identified on previous projects.
- Embedded with Capital Projects and Power Development teams, actively participating in regular planning and execution meetings for both board approved CCS projects and CCS projects in development.
- Responding to RFIs, developing input to required docs/meetings e.g., internal risk review/RCRC docs, Board of Director, and other critical presentations related to CCS projects.
- Works closely with execution teams to ensure project cost, scope, schedule, risk, and operational readiness strategies are developed in planning and delivered in execution.
- Works closely with various levels of leaders and their teams in Power Development, Capital Projects, System Planning, and the Operating Companies in the support of the execution of future CCS resources.
- Assist New Build Team with operational readiness assessments of new assets.
- Partner with Learning and Development to build future CCS training curriculum for Power Generation personnel impacted by future CCS integration.
- Act as contract manager for Owner's Engineering scope of CCS integration projects.
- Coordinate fleet engineering design reviews of CCS integration plans for new and existing facilities.
- Provide regular updates to New Build and SMART Operations lead team on status of CCS projects in development and execution.
- Work closely with affected plant lead teams to ensure they are informed throughout the CCS development, build out, commissioning and initial operations process.
Minimum Requirements Minimum education required of the position
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience in power plant operations, power plant systems, power generation policies and market operations.
- Preferred:
- Advanced technical certification or bachelor's technical/engineering degree or equivalent work experience.
Minimum experience required of the position - Candidate must have a minimum of 3-4 years of experience in utility operations, industrial or generation operations or equivalent outside industry experience or at least 5 years power plant experience for candidates with degrees.
- A Supt, Process level I position for 15 years experience or equivalent outside industry experience for candidates without degrees.
- Desired:
- Relevant experience including commissioning and plant operations.
- Power plant operations experience
- Chemical process operations experience
- Preferred:
- Candidate should have previous experience with commissioning and operations of amine capture processes or commissioning and operations experience with power plants
Knowledge and Skills - Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic work environment.
- Physical capability to perform plant site walkdowns / assessment reviews and provide in-field outage, modification, project, and staff oversight.
- Ability to regularly travel to project sites
Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Louisiana : Baton Rouge Arkansas : El Dorado Arkansas : Hot Springs Arkansas : Little Rock Arkansas : Pine Bluff Arkansas : Redfield Louisiana : Lake Charles Louisiana : Monroe Louisiana : New Orleans Mississippi : Jackson Texas : Beaumont Texas : Conroe Texas : The Woodlands
Job Function :Professional
FLSA Status :Professional
Relocation Option: Union description/code :NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings :1
Req ID: 119423
Travel Percentage :25% to 50%
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