Manager, Transmission Lines

About the role

This position is responsible for managing all transmission line maintenance, capital renewal/replacement projects, and emergent response activities within the TX transmission grid, providing leadership to direct reports and contract crews to ensure safe work practices. The role is onsite with Entergy Texas, Inc.-GTX, located in Beaumont or Conroe, Texas, and falls under the Field & Skilled Trade job function.

Additional details: Onsite work flexibility; Professional FLSA status; Level I relocation; up to 25% travel; non‑bargaining unit; 1 opening; Hiring manager: Kaleb Austin McNeely; Recruiter: Breeon Williams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining the safety culture for transmission line employees and contractors and ensuring a safe work environment exists for all assigned employees and contractors.
• Manage individual contributors, supervisors, including coaching, training, employee development, and effective resource management.
• Manages contract personnel for transmission line maintenance and inspection contractors, promoting good employee relations, morale and teamwork.
• Manage engineers that develop transmission line design packages, including calculations, drawings, standards, and engineering evaluations, for capital blanket projects.
• Ensure work is performed in a team environment by interfacing with transmission engineering staff, transmission PM&C and CPT personnel, distribution personnel, generation plant personnel, major accounts representatives and other internal and external customers.
• Direct response personnel to address failures and emergency transmission outages.
• Ensure 24‑hour coverage is maintained at all times.
• Direct root cause analysis and ensure COS/TOMS is updated.
• Assist Asset Management in development of the annual capital and O&M work plans.
• Manage the development and implementation of project schedules and ensure they are completed on time, within budget and as designed.