Senior Staff Transformer Design Engineer

Job Title: Senior Staff Transformer Design Engineer

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

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.

This is an onsite role based out of our offices in Little Rock, AR. Those outside the area will need to relocate for this role, relocation assistance is a vailable for this posting

Job Summary/Purpose

The Senior Staff Transformer Design Engineer is an individual contributor, responsible for preparing the electrical design of transformers as well as achieving design innovations and the optimization of the end products in compliance with IEEE design rules, quality standards, cost position, and time schedule. The candidate will be responsible for Electrical Design (Calculations) for order execution (detailed design) as well as for offer calculations/preparation of transformers of all types.

This position acts in a lead capacity in a program or system role among peers within a department in a technical discipline, short of a supervisor, but with responsibilities of some level of coordination and/or review. Working in conjunction with other engineering disciplines, this individual will be responsible for system functions such as system planning, asset management, developing design/construction standards, and/or distribution field device automation.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

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  Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team and suppliers always puts safety first.

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  Perform electrical calculations for overhead and underground transformers and prepare electrical design documents.

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  Prepare Technical Specifications for ordering of components like Tap changer, Bushings, current transformers, Winding conductors, & Winding assembly insulation components and various accessories.

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  Design the parameters & dimensions of active part of transformer to meet the customer specifications like losses, impedances, noise levels, Short Circuit forces, temperature limits, loading capabilities etc. by performing analysis on High voltage Transients, dielectric, Magnetic, Short Circuit forces, temperature, noise level etc.

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  Understand customer specifications, project requirements, guaranteed technical particulars, prepare design review documents, technical reports, and justifications for the customers.

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  Collaborate with other departments like sales, mechanical design, manufacturing, quality, testing & service departments on technical topics related to electrical design. Effectively communicate among multi-functional teams and participate in various internal and external technical forums, including with Procurement & Supply Chain Lead Team and company executives

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  Perform incident response/storm duties as assigned.

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Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required for this position:

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  Bachelor's degree in engineering (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Chemical, Industrial) or other related technical discipline.

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  In lieu of a degree, min of years of 6 years of relevant work experience preferably with demonstrated technical expertise

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  Master's Degree preferred

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Minimum experience required for the position:

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  5 years of experience as a design engineer in the field of Power Transformers and performing calculations using transformer design software tools.

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  Strong conceptual knowledge and working experience of calculations and designing of transformers.

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Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position:

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  Familiar with the American & international standards (eg. IEEE, ANSI, IEC) related to transformers, transformer components, and materials.

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  Detailed knowledge of materials and components like core grades, winding copper (PICC, CTC etc.), winding assembly insulation parts like barriers, angle rings/caps, oil guide washers, snouts, spacers, supports, tap changers, bushings, transformer accessories and sensors.

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  Detailed Knowledge of various types of core construction, winding types like disc, helical, multi-start, multi-layer etc. and design of winding assembly insulation components

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Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position:

None

Primary Location: Arkansas-Little Rock Arkansas : Little Rock

Job Function : Engineering

FLSA Status : Professional

Relocation Option: Level II

Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings : 1

Req ID:

Travel Percentage :Up to 25%

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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.

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