Supervisor, Procurement Engineering & Commercial Grade Dedication
Full Time
Saint Francisville, LA
Posted
Job description
Posting End Date: 03/14/2023
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
At Entergy, we power life today and for future generations. With approximately 5,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity, Entergy has a proud history of producing nuclear clean air electricity.
Our nuclear safety culture is strong, and our performance record has proven us to be a clean, reliable, and affordable provider of electricity for our household customers in our utility areas of the southern U.S. and to our commercial customers in other parts of the country.
Entergy Nuclear is a business unit of Entergy Corporation that employs approximately 4,000 highly skilled and dedicated professionals. As a community partner, we are invested in the economic success of the towns, schools, and families we support in five states.
We invite you to learn more about Entergy Nuclear and the nuclear clean air energy that we supply for our nation. Entergy Nuclear Fact Sheet
Job Summary/Purpose
The Supervisor, Procurement Engineering reports to the Manager, Procurement Engineering & Commercial Grade Dedication. This position is accountable/responsible for ensuring Procurement Engineering activities are performed in accordance with approved procedures and by procedurally-qualified personnel. This position coordinates with Supply Chain, other Entergy organizations, and external organizations as required for resolution of technical issues related to procurement of materials and services. The job location is at the Commercial Grade Dedication lab located at the River Bend Station located in St. Francisville, LA. The position will require up to 25% travel to field and corporate offices across the fleet.
Job Duties/Responsibilities
The Supervisor, Procurement Engineering reports to the Manager, Procurement Engineering & Commercial Grade Dedication. This position is accountable/responsible for ensuring Procurement Engineering activities are performed in accordance with approved procedures and by procedurally-qualified personnel. This position coordinates with Supply Chain, other Entergy organizations, and external organizations as required for resolution of technical issues related to procurement of materials and services. The job location is at the Commercial Grade Dedication lab located at the River Bend Station located in St. Francisville, LA. The position will require up to 25% travel to field and corporate offices across the fleet.
Job Duties/Responsibilities
- Safety/Human Performance: Ensures the team always places safety first. Actively promotes strong safety behaviors,performing frequent field visits to review standards and behaviors. Monitors and influences suppliers to proactively identify safety concerns.
- Technical Performance: Oversees the performance of procurement engineering functions to support the safe and efficient generation of electricity using nuclear power. Ensures items are procured in accordance with plant design requirements and to exacting technical and quality requirements.
- Timely Plant Support: Manage engineering work assignments to ensure procurement engineering is responding appropriately to prioritized department and organizational needs. Meet/exceed Goals: Monitors personnel and group effectiveness in achieving established corporate, department, and personal goals. Efficiency and Cost Control: Continuously identifies and proactively implements efficiency improvements. Controls cost through maximization of staff productivity and maintaining expenditures within budget. Leadership: Identifies, promotes, and supports strategic initiatives related to procurement, procurement engineering, Commercial Grade Dedication, and successful receipt of items.
- Partnership: Accountable for establishing and maintaining healthy and positive stakeholder relationships within Engineering and external stakeholders. This activity includes establishing cross-functional and cross-sector teams with key stakeholders.
- People Leadership: Accountable for leveraging Entergy’s Talent Management Strategy to assure the right talent is recruited, developed, retained, and deployed per key business priorities. Mentors and coaches staff. This position will lead approximately 10 direct reports.
- Culture: At all times the Supervisor, Procurement Engineering, CDG Lab shall operate with the highest ethical standards and in full compliance with internal controls, policies, procedures, regulations, and laws.
Education Requirements:
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: MS/MBA degree; Professional Engineer License; Senior Reactor Operator (license or certification): Professional supply chain/procurement certification; Project Management Professional (PMP)
Minimum Requirements:
Must meet or exceed the education/experience requirements of ANSI 3.1-1978 Section 4.6.1 as Engineer in Charge and Entergy’s Quality Assurance Program Manual, and:
- 5 years of experience in nuclear power design, engineering, construction, maintenance, operations, planning/scheduling, project management, or equivalent.
- 3 years of supervisory/management experience in an operating nuclear power plant environment.
- 2 years of experience in engineering is desired.
Minimum
knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives through effective prioritization, delegation, and oversight.
- Strong conflict management and change management skills.
- Knowledge of nuclear plant technology, systems and components.
- Knowledge of nuclear regulatory requirements and Quality Assurance principles/programs.
- Ability to work with all disciplines (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls), manufacturers and suppliers including contractors.
ANSI Required: Yes
ANSI 3.1 – 1978: 4.6.1 Engineer in Charge. The engineer in charge of technical support shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or the Physical Sciences and have 3 years of professional level experience in nuclear services, nuclear plant operation, or nuclear engineering, and the necessary overall nuclear background to determine when to call consultants and contractors for dealing with complex problems beyond the scope of owner-organization expertise.
Primary Location: Louisiana-St. Francisville Louisiana : St. Francisville
Job Function: Nuclear
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 110834
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%
Job Function: Nuclear
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 110834
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%
An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI 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, 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, 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.
The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, 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
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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.
Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).
Equal Opportunity and
Pay Transparency.
Pay Transparency Notice:
Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)
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.
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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