Remote Fleet Operator, RFO Sr - RFO Sr. Lead

Job Title: Remote Fleet Operator, RFO Sr - RFO Sr. Lead

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD)

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean, and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone.

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way.

We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil, hydro and solar plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies to complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities.

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

The RFO is part of a team that centrally monitors Entergy’s regulated Power Generation resources’ fleet-wide performance, maintenance, and operations in a “co-location” workspace with the SPO’s EMO generation dispatcher and performance/equipment health monitoring groups. The RFO will operate and maintain systems associated with various fleet assets such as Combustion Turbine Generator (CTG), Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE) and renewables facilities while demonstrating safety awareness that will continuously improve performance through the use and strict adherence to procedures and processes. As the new fleet of CCCT’s grows, the RFO will complement the plant commissioning teams to help and gain experience on the Mitsubishi JAC and STG machines.

This position is also responsible for supporting the Asset Strategy & Operations leadership team, providing fleet operational support, and, predictive and preventative maintenance, through a defined set of Entergy software applications supporting the ROCC. Fleet performance monitoring will be included in the routine responsibilities working with the on-site PMAC employees. Collaboration and real-time engagement with the EMO generation dispatch operators is an everyday activity.

This role will work closely with other support team members, external vendors, and relevant project teams to manage all issues related to the applications supporting the ROCC.

Operational Duties / Responsibilities (During operating shift cycle):

  • Work an assigned shift in the ROCC as part of 24x7 coverage to monitor & operate multiple fleet assets.
  • Periodic travel to new build sites to assist in commissioning activities.
  • Collaborates with other groups within the ROCC, including co-location regulatory compliance requirements working with EMO and PMAC.
  • Monitors fleet assets including those that are not being controlled remotely from the ROCC.
  • Maintain regulatory compliance and be proactive in supporting responses to all agencies audits to avoid reportable violations.
  • Facilitate and participate in job briefings, shift-turn overs, and safety meetings.
  • Be responsible for NERC/CIP compliance associated with Asset Strategy & Operations functions.
  • Applies understanding and knowledge of plant systems, renewables, turbine controls, data acquisition, process controls, regulating devices, troubleshooting, etc.
  • Operational duties include, but not limited to, operating/monitoring the control board for multiple technologies, maintain PlantView logs, performing PM/PDM analytics, CEMS monitoring.
  • Promotes and ensures a safe work environment, including use of Human Performance tools.
  • Operates with a continuous improvement and commercial mindset while prioritizing safety and asset protection over production.
  • Mentors and provides training to develop other remote operators in the operations training progress
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