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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Company: Entergy
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
This posting is for a potential future opening(s) with Entergy. This posting is to build a candidate pool, should the opening(s) become available.
This position can be filled as an Engineer I, II, III or Sr based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.
JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
Performs a wide variety of planning, maintenance, design engineering, project management and construction, and operations activities related to routine, non-routine, and emergency restoration duties. Project areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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 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.
- Oversee, review, and approve settings developed by professional consultant engineers. This includes awarding projects to contractors and reviewing invoices.
- Lead activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required.
- Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
- Support development of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) configurations.
- Participate in substation visits. Provide technical support and protection system expertise in response to operational/commissioning requests from field personnel.
- Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
- Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary.
- 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.
- Update group databases such as power line carrier frequency database and transmission line rating database.
- Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings.
- Lead and participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects.
- Lead and develop less experienced personnel. Develop departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
- Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution
- Degrees in Engineering Technology (typically, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution with PE may be considered
- Preferred: Electrical or Computer Engineering Degree
Minimum Experience:
- Engineer I: 0 - 2 years of related experience
- Engineer II: at least 2 - 4 years of related experience
- Engineer III: at least 4 - 6 years of related experience
- Engineer Sr.: at least 6 years of related experience
Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering principles
- Thorough understanding of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area
- Consistently demonstrates good engineering judgment
- Good leadership skills
- Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills
- Excellent math skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Good knowledge of Personal Computer operations and related software
- Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Required to work safely and follow all Entergy safety policies and procedures
- Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace and have the ability to mitigate the hazards
- Demonstrated acceptance of a diverse and inclusive work environment and customer base
- Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and have the ability to enact change
- Preferred:
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Self-starter, independent worker, self-motivator
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multi-projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of:
- Power Systems
- Transformers and transmission lines
- Protective relays
- Software or database skills
Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.:
- Preferred: EIT, PE
Primary Location: Louisiana - New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans
Job Function: Engineering
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 123954
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.
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.
Job Segment: Testing, Chemical Research, Database, Construction, Transmission Line, Technology, Engineering, Energy
Date: Oct 2, 2026
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Company: Entergy
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
This posting is for a potential future opening(s) with Entergy. This posting is to build a candidate pool, should the opening(s) become available.
This position can be filled as an Engineer I, II, III or Sr based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.
JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
Performs a wide variety of planning, maintenance, design engineering, project management and construction, and operations activities related to routine, non-routine, and emergency restoration duties. Project areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, planning, asset management, reliability, computer applications, safety, and root cause failure analysis.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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 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.
- Oversee, review, and approve settings developed by professional consultant engineers. This includes awarding projects to contractors and reviewing invoices.
- Lead activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required.
- Establish and improve relay testing laboratory. Develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
- Support development of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) configurations.
- Participate in substation visits. Provide technical support and protection system expertise in response to operational/commissioning requests from field personnel.
- Manage documentation via Documentum (WebTop and IPS-TRAMS) for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
- Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary.
- 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.
- Update group databases such as power line carrier frequency database and transmission line rating database.
- Access new technologies. Lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings.
- Lead and participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects.
- Lead and develop less experienced personnel. Develop departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
- Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline (typically Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution
- Degrees in Engineering Technology (typically, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, and Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution with PE may be considered
- Preferred: Electrical or Computer Engineering Degree
Minimum Experience:
- Engineer I: 0 - 2 years of related experience
- Engineer II: at least 2 - 4 years of related experience
- Engineer III: at least 4 - 6 years of related experience
- Engineer Sr.: at least 6 years of related experience
Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering principles
- Thorough understanding of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area
- Consistently demonstrates good engineering judgment
- Good leadership skills
- Good interpersonal skills along with strong written and oral communication skills
- Excellent math skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Good knowledge of Personal Computer operations and related software
- Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Required to work safely and follow all Entergy safety policies and procedures
- Ability to recognize hazards in the workplace and have the ability to mitigate the hazards
- Demonstrated acceptance of a diverse and inclusive work environment and customer base
- Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and have the ability to enact change
- Preferred:
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Self-starter, independent worker, self-motivator
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multi-projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of:
- Power Systems
- Transformers and transmission lines
- Protective relays
- Software or database skills
Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.:
- Preferred: EIT, PE
Primary Location: Louisiana - New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans
Job Function: Engineering
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 123954
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.
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.
Job Segment: Testing, Chemical Research, Database, Construction, Transmission Line, Technology, Engineering, Energy
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Search Energy Jobs in LouisianaEnergy OPT Sponsorship Jobs in Louisiana: Frequently Asked Questions
Which energy companies sponsor F-1 OPT visas in Louisiana?
Several major energy employers in Louisiana have a history of hiring F-1 OPT candidates, including ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery complex, Shell Chemical, Cheniere Energy at its Sabine Pass LNG terminal, and Entergy. Engineering and technical roles tend to see the most consistent F-1 OPT hiring, though sponsorship decisions are made at the individual employer and position level.
Which cities in Louisiana have the most energy F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs?
Baton Rouge is the primary hub, home to one of the largest petrochemical corridors in North America along the Mississippi River. New Orleans serves as a regional headquarters for offshore oil and gas operators. Lake Charles has grown significantly as an LNG and liquefied petroleum export center. Smaller activity exists in Lafayette, which supports Gulf of Mexico offshore operations.
What types of energy roles typically qualify for F-1 OPT sponsorship?
Roles that tend to qualify involve specialized, degree-linked work: chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, electrical engineering, process engineering, environmental science, and data analytics supporting operations. Louisiana employers also hire F-1 OPT candidates in refinery process control, pipeline integrity analysis, and geosciences. STEM OPT extension eligibility applies to most of these, allowing up to three years of authorized work.
How do I find energy F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs in Louisiana?
Migrate Mate is a job board built specifically for international students and visa holders, with filters for F-1 OPT status and industry categories including energy. You can search Louisiana-based energy roles where employers have indicated sponsorship willingness, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies unlikely to hire F-1 candidates. Migrate Mate focuses the search on employers already open to your visa situation.
Are there Louisiana-specific considerations for F-1 OPT candidates in the energy sector?
Louisiana's energy industry is heavily concentrated in refining, petrochemicals, and offshore extraction, which means many roles involve site-based or safety-sensitive work. Some positions at offshore platforms or federally regulated facilities may have citizenship or permanent residency requirements tied to security clearances or export control regulations. It is worth confirming authorization requirements directly with the employer before applying to field-based or operations roles.