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PS Job Title: Student, Intern 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.” Entergy’s Project Delivery Engineering Department is responsible for the planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating over 16,000 miles of transmission lines and over 2,700 substations across the four-state territory. Intern Job Description: Working in a team environment to assist engineers in day-to-day activities including but not limited to: • Performing design based on project scoping and site visits • Utilizing CAD software to create construction drawings for projects • Preparing relay operational one-line drawings • Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered and staged for upcoming projects • Managing projects that are in construction • Completion of as-built documentation • Participate in weekly planning coordination calls • Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability • Responding to equipment failures • Support lab testing and operations • Support of business analytic processes through data mining and reporting, as well as performing a wide variety of detailed engineering analysis in transmission-related areas such as planning, economic analysis, maintenance, design, project management and construction, and operations • Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects. Review existing relay settings. Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets. • Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera. • Model power systems using APA (previously known as PSS CAPE). Maintain master model for relay fault analysis. Support wide area coordination. Occasionally use additional tools such as ETAP, EMTP and Hypersim. • Develop relay settings for substation protective relays. This includes performing fault studies and developing relay settings for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects. • Works with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system. • Support activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required with focus around PRC and CIP standards. • Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects. • Support development of configurations for non RTU assets such as DFR and PQ meters. • Participate in substation visits. • Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies. • Support protection standard development and implementation as required. • Investigate impact of relay firmware and software changes to Entergy system applications. Develop and update templates as appropriate. • Develop departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed. • Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings. Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system. • Participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects. • Travel may be required for the position Education Requirements: • Candidates must be actively enrolled in pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering. • Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester. Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans Job Function : Students / Early Careers FLSA Status : Relocation Option: Level III Union description/code : NBU Number of Openings : 1 Req ID: 124815 PS Job Title : Student, Intern Travel Percentage :Up to 25% An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below. EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. Accessibility: 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. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request. Additional Responsibilities: 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. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours. WORKING CONDITIONS: 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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PS Job Title: Student, Intern
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.”
Working in a team environment to assist engineers in day-to-day activities including but not limited to:
Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
Utilizing CAD software to create construction drawings for projects
Preparing relay operational one-line drawings
Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered and staged for upcoming projects
Managing projects that are in construction
Completion of as-built documentation
Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
Responding to equipment failures
Support lab testing and operations
Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects. Review existing relay settings. Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets.
Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera.
Model power systems using APA (previously known as PSS CAPE). Maintain master model for relay fault analysis. Support wide area coordination. Occasionally use additional tools such as ETAP, EMTP and Hypersim.
Works with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
Support activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required with focus around PRC and CIP standards.
Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
Support development of configurations for non RTU assets such as DFR and PQ meters.
Participate in substation visits.
Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.

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