About this role
PS Job Title: Student, Intern
Work Place Flexibility: Onsite
Legal Entity: Entergy Arkansas, LLC
Job Summary/Purpose:
This Student, Intern position supports Distribution Operations by assisting with day‑to‑day activities, contributing to ongoing team projects, and gaining hands-on experience through meaningful, real‑world assignments. Distribution Engineering plays a critical role in developing, maintaining, and validating the Business Unit’s adherence to policies and procedures while fostering a customer‑focused, safety‑driven, and continuously improving work environment. As an intern, the selected candidate will collaborate with operations and cross‑functional partners, build professional working relationships, and support key initiatives that serve to enhance the Safety and Reliability of Entergy Arkansas.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
Working in a team environment to assist in day-to-day activities, including but not limited to:
- Provides support to Distribution Engineering day-to-day tasks
- Travel to work sites within Entergy service territories
- Support the Development, Delivery and Deployment of assigned Management System components to all applicable business units
- Develop and monitor observation tools, indicators and actions related to Management System compliance
- Assist or complete design of jobs that require the use of Asset Management Databases and GDT
- Performing design based on project scoping and site visits
- Utilizing design software to model surveyed field configurations
- Preparing operational one-line drawings
- Validate estimating prices and equipment units, ensuring material is properly ordered
- Managing projects that are to be delivered to construction
- Participate in weekly planning coordination calls
- Work on special projects to assist in improving grid reliability
- Responding to equipment failures
- Asset Management database management
- 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, design & project management.
- Travel may be required for the position
Minimum Education Required:
- Candidates must be actively enrolled and pursuing a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree in an Engineering discipline from a four-year institution (for the duration of their internship).
Preferred: Candidates majoring in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering as indicated above. ( Other engineering majors may be considered.)
- At the time of hire, the selected candidate must be at minimum classified as a sophomore or beyond.
Preferred: Candidates who will be classified as a junior or beyond at the time of hire.
- Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (on a 4.0 scale), verified through an official transcript from the previous semester.
Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:
- General electrical or mechanical engineering knowledge
- Self-starter with strong analytical and communication skills
- Must be proficient in MS office tools - Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong and positive team attitude and interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize work and to handle multiple tasks
- Ability to understand scope and objective of each assignment
Primary Location: Arkansas-Searcy Arkansas : Searcy
Job Function : Students / Early Careers
FLSA Status :
Relocation Option: Level III
Union description/code : NBU
Number of Openings : 2
Req ID: 125067
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.
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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 [email protected] 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.