Manager, Region Engineering

About the role

Provides oversight and management of field engineering services within a geographical operating region. The position is based onsite in Beaumont, Texas and reports to Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX.

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 maintenance, reliability and financial goals.
• Manages resources and budget activities to ensure 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 the local jurisdiction on items arising from local and state regulatory agencies.
• Delivers training and coaching to the work group to ensure familiarity with Entergy’s policies, procedures and 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 a leadership role during emergency response and storm restoration efforts.
• Provides oversight of 24/7 engineering response to support operations.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with proven leadership capabilities or significant project‑management experience.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license desired (requirements may vary by state; higher‑level management holding a PE may eliminate the need at lower levels).

Additional Responsibilities

• Availability to work additional hours, in alternate locations, and to perform duties related to storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company.
• Exempt status: overtime is not paid for these additional duties.

Travel: up to 25% of time.