Region Manager

Manager, Region Engineering

Job Summary/Purpose Provides oversight and management of field engineering services within a geographical operating region. The activities include managing people, finances, and other resources needed to maintain customer relationships, employee growth, revenue growth, system reliability, and system improvements.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Provides administrative, management and technical oversight of distribution design and field engineering (Power Quality, Voltage issue resolution, feeder level distribution planning, contingency switching, reliability programs, etc.).
• Manages group resources to achieve group maintenance goals, reliability and financial goals. Manages resources and budget activities to achieve strict compliance with Entergy's guidelines.
• Provides operational support at the jurisdictional and network level to improve customer satisfaction and reliability performance. Provides technical expertise to local Jurisdiction on items arising from local and state regulatory agencies.
• Provides training and coaching to work group to ensure all employees are familiar with Entergy's policies and procedures required to serve customers and comply with all applicable codes for designing and maintaining electrical distribution facilities.
• Manages special/large projects including process development, storm restoration and other ad hoc jurisdictional and system assignments.
• Serves in leadership role during emergency response and storm restoration efforts. Provides oversight of 24/7 engineering response to support operations.

Minimum Requirements Minimum education required of the position Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

Minimum experience required of the position 5-8 years of experience with proven leadership capabilities or significant project management experience. Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position Professional Engineering license (will vary state by state on requirements; higher management having PE could eliminate the need at lower level).

Other Attributes

• Requires conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
• Business Expertise
• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services.

Problem Solving Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
• Working Conditions/Essential Functions/Physical Requirements
• 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.

Other

• Not all aspects of the job are covered by the description - may require "other duties as assigned"
• Job may change over time in accordance with business needs
• Job description does not guarantee employment

Primary Location: Texas-Conroe Texas : Conroe Job Function : All Other Jobs FLSA Status : Professional Relocation Option: Level II Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT Number of Openings : 1 Req ID: 121120 Travel Percentage : Up to 25%