Intern - Distribution Engineering

Distribution Engineering Support Role

Role is responsible for providing support to Distribution Operations and team projects. Distribution Engineering is tasked with developing, delivering, maintaining and validating the Business Unit adherence to policies and procedures. Distribution Engineering is expected to provide a customer centric atmosphere, with an emphasis on safety culture, CI and teamwork environment. Role will require building and maintaining partnerships with operations and other support functions to properly facilitate the development and continuous improvement of the Safety and Reliability of Entergy Arkansas

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides support to Distribution Engineering day-to-day tasks
• Travel to work sites within Entergy service territories
• Support the Development, Delivery and Deployment of assigned Management System components to all applicable business units
• Develop and monitor observation tools, indicators and actions related to Management System compliance
• Assist or complete design of jobs that require the use of Asset Management Databases and GDT

Minimum Education required of the position:

• Must be actively pursuing a bachelors or masters in an engineering field of study. Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering candidates preferred. Junior/Senior candidates preferred (classification at the time/semester of hire; identified in the job posting title)
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher is required (on a 4.0 scale).

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:

• General electrical or mechanical engineering knowledge
• Self-starter with strong analytical and communication skills
• Must be proficient in MS office tools - Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong and positive team attitude and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize work and to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to understand scope and objective of each assignment

Working in a team environment to assist engineers in day-to-day activities including but not limited to:

• Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
• Utilizing design software to model surveyed field configurations
• Preparing operational one-line drawings
• Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered
• Managing projects that are to be delivered to construction
• Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
• Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
• Responding to equipment failures
• Asset Management database management
• Support of business analytic processes through data mining and reporting, as well as performing a wide variety of detailed engineering analysis in transmission-related areas such as planning, economic analysis, design & project management.
• Travel may be required for the position

Primary Location: Arkansas-Conway Arkansas: Conway || Arkansas: Harrison || Arkansas: Russellville Job Function: Students / Early Careers FLSA Status: Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered Union description/code: Number of Openings: 1 Req ID: 120719 Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

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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.

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.