Power Generation Markets Lead

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

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, and other technologies to complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities.

• This position can be filled as an Analyst III, Senior, or Senior Lead depending on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate.*

Job Summary/Purpose

The Power Generation Markets Lead will work within the Performance Monitoring and Analytics Center (PMAC) and is responsible for development and execution of a commercial strategy which optimizes each generating unit’s financial/ operational value given its role in the MISO market. The team is responsible for developing a point-of-view (POV) for each element of the strategy and educating the wider organization of the importance of commercial matters and risks that could impact our ability to maximize the financial/operational value of our generating units.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include working with processes and/or programs in a broad range of areas affecting Entergy’s Power Generation generating fleet, including but not limited to:

Generator Operating Parameters & Costs

• Management and oversight of the process for reviewing and updating generator operating costs
• Maintain database of generator operating parameters and costs
• Coordinate generator operating parameter changes with plants

Support development of a clear POV on each generating unit’s role within MISO

• Develop optimization strategies that improve the efficiency and reliability of the Power Generation fleet
• Provide routine and ad hoc analytical support for participation in the MISO Day-Ahead Energy and Ancillary Services Market.
• Follow relevant MISO committees and initiatives.
• Provide assistance as needed with short-term production cost modeling, long-term outage planning, FTR analysis and Independent Market Monitor (IMM) interaction.

Additional Duties/Responsibilities

• Support the monitoring and reporting of Power Generation key operational metrics
• Provide support for special projects such as needed. Able to facilitate team meetings, progress team toward solutions and present recommendations to senior management as needed.
• The candidate should be able to operate in a team environment with other personnel, departments, and organizations. Provide assistance on various tasks that fall under the SMART Operations Center (SOC) umbrella of responsibility, which includes remote operations, commercial asset management, and Engineering & Technical Services. The candidate must be able to learn new processes and programs quickly and seek opportunities to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. The candidate should also have strong analytical abilities, as well as time management and organizational skills.
• The position requires interface with Power Generation senior leadership, plant management and personnel, as well as other business units, including Finance, Supply Chain and System Planning Organization (SPO). The candidate should have the ability to interact at all levels.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering, Finance is desirable).

Minimum Experience Required Of The Position

• Analyst III: 4-6 years of professional experience
• Analyst Sr: 6+ years of professional experience
• Analyst, Sr Lead: 8+ years of professional experience

Desired

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• Knowledge of power generation budgeting process
• Knowledge of MISO Energy Market and unit offer construction
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of applications, in particular Excel and PowerBI, and some proficiency in SQL (Visual Studio and/or VBA programming knowledge beneficial)
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple work tasks simultaneously
• Ability to facilitate and lead teams to drive projects through to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team setting
• Strong attention to details
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Self-starter and requires little or no supervision
• Capacity to adapt to changing work priorities.
• Able to develop work products from cradle to grave
• Knowledge of System Planning Operations business unit, utility accounting, finance and/or regulation a plus
• Knowledge of power generation fundamentals a plus

Primary Location: Texas – The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands

Job Function: Professional

FLSA Status: Professional

Relocation Option: Level II

Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings: 1

Req ID: 115556

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

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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.

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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.