Field Coordinator, Distribution - Texas

About the role

The Field Coordinator - Distribution is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of all distribution construction, maintenance, restoration, and switching activities through thorough and proactive planning.

Responsibilities

• Anticipates and identifies hazards in distribution work before execution; determines when EWP/DWP is required; embeds Life Critical Rules, grounding, clearances, and Safe Work Practices into all pre-job documentation; and ensures safety controls and equipment are in place before crews mobilize.
• Ensures distribution jobs align with construction and maintenance standards; performs pre-construction reviews, site assessments, and material verification; and uses structured QA/QC to eliminate discrepancies before field execution.
• Prepares and validates switching packages, isolation points, and outage steps for distribution work; coordinates with Distribution Operations Center (DOC) to ensure safe sequencing; and applies knowledge of DACT/OMS to support restoration readiness for routine and emergent events.
• Confirms distribution jobs are fully ready by validating access, environmental needs, permits, logistics, equipment staging, and material availability; resolves constraints early and coordinates across Construction, Dispatch, and Supply Chain, to ensure smooth field execution.
• Enhances crew success by clarifying job expectations, preparing accurate and actionable work plans, resolving planning-phase challenges, participating in post-job reviews, and intervening early when documentation or work-practice gaps could compromise safety or quality.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent or related work experience.
• Associate’s degree or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of distribution or transmission line experience with demonstrated competency and a clear understanding of advanced Linework skills – or – The ability to pass the technical capability test, demonstrating the required skills.

Qualifications

To be eligible to test, an individual must also meet one of the following: Minimum of five years of discipline-specific field experience (Distribution or Transmission Linework) or Prior relevant Operations Coordinator experience with SVP approval.

Skills

A Senior-level contributor exhibits advanced safety leadership in planning by proactively identifying complex hazards, shaping high-risk work strategies, and ensuring Life Critical Rules, engineered controls, and safe work practices are fully integrated into all documentation and job packages.

Benefits

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf.

Pay

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.

Schedule

Travel Percentage: 50% to 75%. 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.